This playwright only wrote one comedy, Woe to Him Who Lies, which was a failure. In one of his tragedies, the title character is killed by Seyfried in revenge for having ordered the execution of his father Merenberg. This author of a play about Ottok
This playwright only wrote one comedy, Woe to Him Who Lies, which was a failure. In one of his tragedies, the title character is killed by Seyfried in revenge for having ordered the execution of his father Merenberg. This author of a play about Ottokar II adapted the story of Hero and Leander into Waves of the Sea and of Love, and also wrote a trilogy about the Golden Fleece beginning with a prelude called The Guest Friend. He was greatly influenced by the Spanish Golden Age playwrights, as evidenced by the CalderÃ³n-like The Dream, a Life and a play about Rahel la Fermosa entitled The Jewess of Toledo. For 10 points, name this Austrian playwright who also lends his name to a pension in The World According to Garp.
This playwright only wrote one comedy, Woe to Him Who Lies, which was a failure.
Franz Grillparzer