Nestroy, Johann
Nestroy, Johann (1801–62),Austrian actor and dramatist, who wrote approximately 83 plays and was highly regarded for his acerbic wit. Nestroy employed dramatic forms ranging from fairy‐tale play and farce to political satire. He was a master of the Viennese dialect and folk tradition and mixed high and low culture to startling effect. Among his most notable fairy‐tale plays are Die Verbannung aus dem Zauberreiche oder Dreissig Jahre aus dem Leben eines Lumpen (The Banishment from the Magic Kingdom or Thirty Years in the Life of a Tramp, 1828), Der konfuse Zauberer oder Treue und Flatterhaftigkeit (The Confused Wizard or Fidelity and Fickleness, 1832), Die Zauberreise in die Ritterzeit oder die Übermutigen (The Magic Journey into the Days of Knights or the Exuberant Ones, 1832), Genius, Schuster und Markör oder die Pyramiden der Verzauberung (Genius, Shoemaker and Waiter or The...
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