Word: intriguenstueck
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Entertaining in itself as a clever bit of comedy, the play is also of literary interest as one of the few documents of Schiller's relating to the eighteenth century comedy of the "Intriguenstueck" type. In presenting for the first time in its history a play of marked literary value, the Verein is reaching for a higher station in the interpretation of German drama. Such a play entailed more difficulties in staging and costuming than former Verein comedies; but by careful preparation and owing to the presence in the cast of a large number of Germans, they have been successfully...
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