This work's third act opens in a tavern, where a "Commercial Traveler" is "vigorously masticating a beef-steak" and hitting on the owner's red-haired daughter Anna. One character in this work sits by a stove crying and lamenting the weakness of his stomach after throwing up some dog meat. In this play's final act, Old Hilse is fatally wounded after failing to prevent Luise and Gottlieb from joining the title characters. Other characters in this work include Ansorge and his tenants the Baumerts, who are visited by the returning soldier Moritz Jaeger. The action comes to a head when the villainous Dreissiger imprisons Becker, who is then broken out by a mob protesting low wages and poor living conditions. For 10 points, identify this play based on real-life riots led by the title Silesian wo
This work's third act opens in a tavern, where a "Commercial Traveler" is "vigorously masticating a beef-steak" and hitting on the owner's red-haired daughter Anna. One character in this work sits by a stove crying and lamenting the weakness of his stomach after throwing up some dog meat. In this play's final act, Old Hilse is fatally wounded after failing to prevent Luise and Gottlieb from joining the title characters. Other characters in this work include Ansorge and his tenants the Baumerts, who are visited by the returning soldier Moritz Jaeger. The action comes to a head when the villainous Dreissiger imprisons Becker, who is then broken out by a mob protesting low wages and poor living conditions. For 10 points, identify this play based on real-life riots led by the title Silesian workers, an 1892 work by Gerhart Hauptmann.
This work's third act opens in a tavern, where a "Commercial Traveler" is "vigorously masticating a beef-steak" and hitting on the owner's red-haired daughter Anna.
The Weavers [or Die Weber]