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The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann

by Gerhart Hauptmann

edited by Ludwig Lewisohn

translated by Ludwig Lewisohn, Mary Morison, Roy Temple House, Charles Henry Meltzer, Sarah T. Barrows and Bayard Quincy Morgan

This is a series of volumes of translations of Gerhart Hauptmann's plays, issued by B. W. Huebsch in New York starting in 1912. By 1917, 7 volumes had come out. Eventually the series went to 9 volumes, but the last two, which did not appear until the 1920s, are still copyrighted in the US. Below we provide links to the 7 volumes that are in the public domain in the US. Each set of volume links is followed by a description of its contents, with German titles provided where they differ from the English titles. Each volume also has an introduction by the editor, Ludwig Lewisohn. Except where noted, all translations are by the editor.

The Internet Archive has various page image formats for all 7 public domain volumes, and Project Gutenberg has transcriptions of the first two. In some cases, we link to reprints of the original editions of the volumes.

• Volume One: Social Dramas (c1912; Internet Archive; Gutenberg)
  • Before Dawn (Von Sonnenaufgang)
  • The Weavers (Die Weber; trans. by Mary Morison)
  • The Beaver Coat (Der Biberpelz)
  • The Conflagration (Der Rote Hahn)
• Volume Two: Social Dramas (c1913; Internet Archive; Gutenberg)
  • Drayman Henschel (Fuhrmann Henschel)
  • Rose Bernd
  • The Rats (Die Ratten)
• Volume Three: Domestic Dramas (c1914; Internet Archive)
  • The Reconciliation (Das Friedensfest; trans. by Roy Temple House)
  • Lonely Lives (Einsame Menschen; trans. by Mary Morison)
  • Colleague Crampton (College Crampton; trans. by Roy Temple House)
  • Michael Kramer
• Volume Four: Symbolic and Legendary Dramas (c1914; Internet Archive)
  • The Assumption of Hannele (Hanneles Himmelfahrt; trans. by Charles Henry Meltzer)
  • The Sunken Bell (Die Versunkene Glocke; trans. by Charles Henry Meltzer)
  • Henry of Auë (Der Arme Heinrich)
• Volume Five: Symbolic and Legendary Dramas (c1915; Internet Archive)
  • Schluck and Jau (Schluck und Jau)
  • And Pippa Dances (Und Pippa Tanzt!; trans. by Sarah Tracy Barrows)
  • Charlemagne's Hostage (Kaiser Karls Geisel)
• Volume Six: Later Dramas in Prose (c1915; Internet Archive)
  • The Maidens of the Mount (Die Jungfern vom Bischofsberg)
  • Griselda
  • Gabriel Schilling's Flight (Gabriel Schillings Flucht)
• Volume Seven: Miscellaneous Dramas (c1917; Internet Archive)
  • Commemoration Masque (Festspiel in Deutschen Reimen; trans. by Bayard Quincy Morgan)
  • The Bow of Odysseus (Der Bogen des Odysseus)
  • Elga
  • Fragments:
    • Helios
    • Pastoral (Das Hirtenlied)

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