BIOGRAPHY

Ellis, Frances H. Introduction to The Early Meisterlieder of Hans Sachs, pp. 13-17. Bloomington: Indiana University Studies, 1974.

Provides an overview of Sachs's life and career.

CRITICISM

Beare, Mary. “Observations on Some of the Illustrated Broadsheets of Hans Sachs.” German Life and Letters 16 (1963): 174-85.

Explores Sachs's woodcuts, claiming that to truly understand the author's literary works, they must be considered together with their illustrations.

Ellis, Frances H. “Hans Sachs's Meisterlied on the Supposed Origin of the Olympic Games.” Monatshefte fur Deutschen Unterricht, Deutsche Sprache und Literatur 76, no. 2 (summer 1984): 176-81.

Examines a Sachs Meisterlied of 1548 for its accuracy concerning the origin of the Olympic Games.

———. “‘Der olimpisch Kampff’: A Meisterlied of Hans Sachs.” Monatshefte fur Deutschen Unterricht, Deutsche Sprache und Literatur 78, no. 1 (spring 1986): 48-53.

Analyzes an unpublished Meisterlied by Sachs.

MacMechan, Archibald. The Relation of Hans Sachs to the Decameron as Shown in an Examination of the Thirteen Shrovetide Plays Drawn from that Source. Halifax: Nova Scotia Printing Company, 1889, 81 p.

Provides an overview of Sachs's debt to Boccaccio through the examination of thirteen plays.

Sobel, Eli. “A Hans Sachs Schulkunst of 1516: More Evidence on the Art of the Meistersinger.” In Wahrheit und Sprache, pp. 97-103. Goppingen: Verlag Alfred Kummerle, 1972.

Considers Sachs's poems as the best example of the literary genre known as Meistergesang.

Wailes, Stephen L. “Hans Sachs, John the Baptist, and the Dark Days in Nuremberg ca. 1548.” In German Life and Letters 52, no. 4 (October 1999): 399-411.

Considers Sachs's use of the character and story of John the Baptist in the play Die Enthauptung Johannis, with special emphasis on the exile motif that Sachs introduced.

Additional coverage of Sachs's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Concise Dictionary of World Literary Biography, Vol. 2; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 179; Literature Resource Center; Reference Guide to World Literature Eds. 2, 3.