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Dramatizations of Social Change: Herman Heijermans’Plays as Compared with Selected Dramas by Ibsen, Hauptmann and Chekhov

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  1. Hilda Neck Yoder
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Part of the book series: Bibliotheca Neerlandica extra muros (BNEM, volume 5)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. Introduction

    • Hilda van Neck Yoder
    Pages 1-4

  3. Ghetto and Ghosts

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    Pages 5-23

  4. Op Hoop van Zegen and die Weber

    • Hilda van Neck Yoder
    Pages 24-43

  5. Ora et Labora and the Cherry Orchard

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    Pages 44-68

  6. Conclusion

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    Pages 69-73

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 74-81
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Herman Heijermans (1864-1924) was convinced that he lived in an "overgangs­ 1 tijdperk," a transitional period. As a young man in the eighteen nineties, he rejected those values and life styles which he felt belonged to the past period dominated by the bourgeoisie, and sought out situations and a profession which would attune him to the future when, he hoped, the proletariat would 2 be in power. He left the conservative business milieu of Rotterdam in 1892 and went to Amsterdam- then teeming with radical ideas. At first, Heijermans was attracted to a group of poets, de tachtigers, who were claiming to have enlivened the stale tradition of Dutch poetry by discovering language and beauty in a totally new way; but soon he felt them to be elitist. Then, in 1895, he became a member of the newly founded Dutch Social Democratic Workers Party. He alienated himself from the literary circles by claiming that art should be socialistic and by rejecting the class separation between artists and workers. He felt himself to be one with the proletariat and, through them, with "The New Life" and "The New Humanity. " Stimulated by the ongoing theater revival, which he interpreted as an attempt to challenge the bourgeois smugness and moral self-righteousness, he had started to write plays before becoming interested in the Socialist Party.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Dramatizations of Social Change: Herman Heijermans’Plays as Compared with Selected Dramas by Ibsen, Hauptmann and Chekhov

  • Authors: Hilda Neck Yoder

  • Series Title: Bibliotheca Neerlandica extra muros

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9286-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1978

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-009-9288-7Published: 21 April 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-9286-3Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: V, 81

  • Topics: Germanic Languages

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