This author wrote a work whose speaker has the image of Crassus weeping over the death of his pet lamprey stuck "[in his] brain, like a splinter.
This author wrote a work whose speaker has the image of Crassus weeping over the death of his pet lamprey stuck "[in his] brain, like a splinter." This author introduced the concept of "pre-existence" as the first of three planes of human life in a play where Death introduces himself as Dionysius's cousin while trying to tempt Claudio. This author of the play Death and the Fool wrote about an English Lord who suddenly loses the ability to use and understand language in a fictional epistle to Francis Bacon, "The Lord Chandos Letter." He adapted the morality play Everyman for the Salzburg Festival, which he founded with Max Reinhardt. He also adapted his play about the vengeful sister of Chrysothemis and Orestes for one of his many collaborations with a German composer. For 10 points, name this Austrian author who wrote the libretti for the operas Elektra and Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss.
This author wrote a work whose speaker has the image of Crassus weeping over the death of his pet lamprey stuck "[in his] brain, like a splinter.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal