Impromptu in the Audience

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. A Note on the Translation vii
4. Introduction 1
5. The Tutor Or Advantages of Private Education A Comedy 25
6. The New Menoza Or History of Prince Tandi of Cumba A Comedy 90
7. The Soldier A Comedy 142
8. The Hermit A Pendant to Werther’s Sorrows By the Deceased Poet Lenz 187
9. The Country Pastor1 A Story By Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz 214
10. Remarks on the Theater 257
11. On Götz von Berlichingen 286
12. Review of The New Menoza: Written by the Author Himself 290
13. On Scene Changes in Shakespeare 296
14. On the Marriages of Soldiers 301
15. Portrait of a Slain Man 339
16. HERR PROFESSOR KANT 340
17. Love in the Countryside 342
18. Impromptu in the Audience 345
19. Allwill’s First Spiritual Song 347
20. Song Set to the German Dance20 349
21. Song of a Shipwrecked European 349
22. Shakespeare’s Ghost 350
23. Pygmalion 352
24. Pygmalion 352
25. To the Spirit 352
26. Chronology 355
27. A Note on the Currencies in Lenz’s Works 359
28. Selected Bibliography 361
29. Index 367