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Encyclopedia entry: Tieck, (Johann) Ludwig
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Tieck, (Johann) Ludwig
(1773–1854), German Romantic poet and dramatist, whose early plays, satirical fairy-tales—
Ritter Blaubart
(
Bluebeard
, 1796),
Der gestiefelte Kater
(
Puss-in-Boots
, 1797), and
Die verkehrte Welt
(
The World Upside-down
, 1798)—were followed by verse dramas,
Leben und Tod der heiligen Genoveva
(1799) and
Kaiser Oktavianus
(1804). In 1824 Tieck became Director of the Court Theatre in
Dresden
, where he insisted on clear diction and simplified staging, though a performance of
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