Article: Georg Kaiser's Amphitryon: an expressionistic dilemma.(Critical Essay)

Georg Kaiser's tragedy zweimal Amphitryon (Twice Amphitryon) is in content but a step removed from that of his French contemporary Giraudoux. However, Kaiser is not concerned with safeguarding monogamy, as is his French contemporary, but rather with the salvation of modern man from his existential predicament reflected in his feeling of abandonment and his struggle for identity. "Zweimal Amphitryon" is a drama in which the last vestige of comedy has been eerily transmogrified. The human condition depicted here reflects the German Zeitgeist (spirit of the age) of the expressionistic school during which the Weimar Republic was tottering along the brink of disaster. In fact, ...

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