Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
4/5
Ebook132 pages1 hour
Casper Hauser: A Play in Four Acts
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
About this ebook
In 1828 a young man in rags appeared in the German city of Nurnberg, saying that he'd been kept isolated in a dungeon all of his life. Was he the bastard offshoot of some noble or royal family, secreted away to preserve the honor of the house? Within a few months he was dead under mysterious circumstances, his mystery still unsolved. CASPER HAUSER uses the uproar caused by Hauser's emergence to focus the white heat of the authors' indignation on the systematic maltreatment of individuals solely to spare the feelings of the rich and powerful elements of society. The anger of the playwrights permeates this straightforward, exceptionally powerful tale of a young man who never had a chance of living a normal life. The drama still plays well to a modern audience!
Related to Casper Hauser
Related ebooks
The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian, and Quinx Grimshaw, Bagshaw, and Bradshaw Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOut of Focus: Poem Stuff Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPhilistia Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Good Soldier (Warbler Classics) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Pair of Blue Eyes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCivilization 1914-1918 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Honeymoon: A comedy in three acts Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsArrows of Longing Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCivilization 1914-1918: Tales of the Great War: On the Somme Front, Lieutenant Dauche, The Horse-Dealers, Discipline… Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFrankenstein - Or, the Man and the Monster - A Stage Play (Fantasy and Horror Classics) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Phantom of the Opera Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Lost Treasure Map Book Collection (2017 Edition) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Lost Treasure Trilogy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Phantom of the Opera (Golden Deer Classics) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Return To 'Ouja: A Wise Report To A Wise Minister By A Wise Citizen Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Far Country — Volume 3 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHands Around [Reigen]: A Cycle of Ten Dialogues Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Diary Without Dates Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPunch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 30, 1841 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Dark Forest Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Lieutenant and Others Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Phantom of the Opera (annotated) (Best Navigation, Active TOC) (A to Z Classics) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMr. Faust Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Indiscretion of the Duchess Being a Story Concerning Two Ladies, a Nobleman, and a Necklace Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFanny's First Play Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Monsieur: Or, The Prince of Darkness Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Notorious Dr. August: His Real Life And Crimes, A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFanny's First Play Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Performing Arts For You
Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lucky Dog Lessons: From Renowned Expert Dog Trainer and Host of Lucky Dog: Reunions Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Romeo and Juliet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Whale / A Bright New Boise Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mash: A Novel About Three Army Doctors Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Diamond Eye: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Best Women's Monologues from New Plays, 2020 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wuthering Heights Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Quite Nice and Fairly Accurate Good Omens Script Book: The Script Book Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Hamlet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fifth Mountain: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hollywood's Dark History: Silver Screen Scandals Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Is This Anything? Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Trial Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Coreyography: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Strange Loop Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Othello Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Our Town: A Play in Three Acts Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Robin Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Woman Is No Man: A Read with Jenna Pick Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Dolls House Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Sisters Brothers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The World Turned Upside Down: Finding the Gospel in Stranger Things Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related podcast episodes
Running with the Beagle in my Brain A Politically Incorrect Search for Adventure 0% found this document usefulThe Nameless Offspring by Clark Ashton Smith 0% found this document usefulSupernatural News/Parashare: Haunted Dolls and Poetry Slams Edition 0% found this document usefulGossip, Ambivalence, And The Strangeness of Virgil's Presence: Inferno, Canto XV, Lines 100 - 124 0% found this document usefulEpisode 36: The Cigarette Case by Oliver Onions 0% found this document usefulCan You Be Still? 0% found this document usefulS02E29 Lady Ferry by Sarah Orne Jewett 0% found this document usefulThe Terrifying Legend Of The Monster Of Medveda, Serbia - A Vampire Story 0% found this document usefulHow Prepared Are You To Start Over? 0% found this document useful
Related articles
My Name is Fritz Mayer: An Account of Buchenwald Literary HubArticle
My Name is Fritz Mayer: An Account of Buchenwald
Jan 25, 2019
7 min readThe Gold Coast The Paris ReviewArticle
The Gold Coast
Sep 6, 2022
35 min readDiscovering My Family’s Murderous Nazi Past Literary HubArticle
Discovering My Family’s Murderous Nazi Past
Nov 1, 2017
8 min readDorothy Parker on the Art of Her Old Pal James Thurber Literary HubArticle
Dorothy Parker on the Art of Her Old Pal James Thurber
Aug 22, 2019
4 min readFanny Burney, Grandmother of the English Novel The Paris ReviewArticle
Fanny Burney, Grandmother of the English Novel
Nov 6, 2019
7 min readThe Book That Changed The World The OldieArticle
The Book That Changed The World
Jun 30, 2021
5 min readThe Trouble Gene The American Poetry ReviewArticle
The Trouble Gene
Jul 1, 2020
One clear thing about trouble—it can set you back to zero, a personal cone of silence. And reading, writing, listening allow entry into that troubled solitude; you disappear into it regardless t of the time or place you really are in, be it bed, kitc
12 min readCommonplace Book The American ScholarArticle
Commonplace Book
Jun 1, 2023
Soft, to your places, animals, Your legendary duty calls. —Thomas Kinsella, Another September, 1958 —Go—says he, one day at dinner, to an overgrown [fly] which had buzz'd about his nose, and tormented him cruelly all dinner-time,— and which, after in
3 min readCommonplace Book The American ScholarArticle
Commonplace Book
Sep 1, 2021
If any question why we died, Tell them, because our fathers lied. —Rudyard Kipling, “Epitaphs of the War,” The Years Between, 1919 She consulted me, a glance, and said: “I think not anything off the wagon. It arrives too quickly. Let’s have somethi
4 min readJan Morris The Paris ReviewArticle
Jan Morris
Jun 15, 2018
I have always rather envied the poet Ovid, who was banished from Rome by the emperor Augustus, you may remember, to a remote place called Tomis on the shores of the Black Sea. There he died, ten years later, and his exile has gone into legend and int
17 min readI, Spy MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military HistoryArticle
I, Spy
Aug 7, 2018
Many things happened to me for the first time on a night in April 1944. I rode in a Black Maria; I jumped from a bomber with a tangled parachute; and I began my mission in wartime France as a British secret agent. We drove in the Black Maria from Int
17 min readReaders' Letters The OldieArticle
Readers' Letters
Feb 8, 2023
4 min readTheatre The OldieArticle
Theatre
Jan 11, 2023
2 min read‘A Small Victory Against Erasure’: The Three Minutes That Bring An Exterminated Jewish Past To Life The GuardianArticle
‘A Small Victory Against Erasure’: The Three Minutes That Bring An Exterminated Jewish Past To Life
Nov 24, 2022
Like anyone else, every now and again I come across old photos of family holidays. There are quite a few from the mid-1970s, mostly taken on Bournemouth beach. Obviously, I look at the faces of my parents, now gone, or of me and my sisters – but some
6 min readLast Orders The OldieArticle
Last Orders
Jul 28, 2021
5 min readHow to Spend 42 Days Stuck in Your Room Literary HubArticle
How to Spend 42 Days Stuck in Your Room
Mar 25, 2020
4 min readParis Was Yesterday Country LifeArticle
Paris Was Yesterday
Mar 10, 2021
THE lane between the farm and the village was still half underwater, so my husband, jabbed weeks ago, insisted on driving me to the village hall in his pickup truck. We loaded up like an old couple going on a day trip to the seaside, me with a Thermo
4 min read'Silence Is A Sense' Works To Dispel The Terrible Abstractions Of Syria's Civil War NPRArticle
'Silence Is A Sense' Works To Dispel The Terrible Abstractions Of Syria's Civil War
Mar 13, 2021
3 min readPatrick Modiano on the Night He Fled a Parisian Crime Scene Literary HubArticle
Patrick Modiano on the Night He Fled a Parisian Crime Scene
Oct 25, 2018
6 min readSocialism And Cha-cha-cha POV MagazineArticle
Socialism And Cha-cha-cha
Aug 19, 2020
2 min readA Case of Mania Grandiosa The Paris ReviewArticle
A Case of Mania Grandiosa
Aug 28, 2017
1 min readThe Resister MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military HistoryArticle
The Resister
Feb 23, 2018
6 min readPatrick Modiano: To Flee a Parisian Crime Scene Literary HubArticle
Patrick Modiano: To Flee a Parisian Crime Scene
Oct 25, 2018
6 min readPats On The Back The FieldArticle
Pats On The Back
Dec 12, 2019
I AM writing this column from a prone position. Reclining on my sofa in the library, propped up with cushions like some latter-day Lady Ottoline Morrell, but without the wit, brilliance and patronage. I wish I could say my current condition arose fro
3 min readRobert Thicknesse on Opera The Critic MagazineArticle
Robert Thicknesse on Opera
Apr 27, 2023
I WAS AS EXCITED AS everyone else to learn that opera actually exists in New Zealand — two things surely linked before only by their joint gold for the world’s least fashionable phenomena. Not only that, but it turns out that Kiwis have a thriving ne
3 min readThe Enduring, Gloriously Déclassé Style of Barbara Windsor The Paris ReviewArticle
The Enduring, Gloriously Déclassé Style of Barbara Windsor
Aug 14, 2017
5 min readO, Brave Old World! Manhattan InstituteArticle
O, Brave Old World!
Dec 19, 2017
2 min readCommonplace Book The American ScholarArticle
Commonplace Book
Sep 4, 2018
I have no hesitation in saying that I have ever considered the [Electoral College] as the most dangerous blot in our Constitution, and one which some unlucky chance will some day hit. —Thomas Jefferson, letter to George Hay, August 17, 1823 He who
3 min readReaders’ Letters The OldieArticle
Readers’ Letters
Dec 13, 2023
SIR: I found Dunphy's cartoon about incompatible typefaces (November issue) most amusing, not least because it reminded me of a verse I wrote during a few moments of boredom in a meeting at which typefaces suitable for exhibition posters were being d
3 min readOn Translating the Little Known Italian Novel That Anticipated the Anthropocene Literary HubArticle
On Translating the Little Known Italian Novel That Anticipated the Anthropocene
Dec 7, 2020
11 min read
Reviews for Casper Hauser
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
Casper Hauser - Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois
Enjoying the preview?
Page 1 of 1