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Thekla: Your subject.

Prince: Come down to me then! I've made my appearance here
like a character from Shakespeare. I've taken a fancy to you, and
I'm growling the order at you.

Thekla: (sighing) Shakespeare's age is past. We're living three cen-
turies later.

9. Thekla: I'm very fond of my brother. His distress will be the hardest
thing for me to bear.

Prince: Then I'm an intruder into peace and contentment. I tempt
an angel to tell lies?

Thekla: Every breath that I've drawn since yesterday evening when
I first saw you has been sinful. But a prince! A young melancholy
hero! I've been singing folk-songs, in which he continually
appears, for so long now, that I was head over heels in love with
him before he actually came.

Prince: And does he live up to expectations?

Thekla: Completely.

Prince: That's a confession, Thekla.

Thekla: It's meant to be. Should I otherwise be talking to you at
night from my bedroom window?


SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
(Note. There is no complete collected edition of Sternheim's works,
but an almost exhaustive list of everything by him and on him, with the
exception of his prose fiction, including English and American criticisms
of his work, may be found in: The Drama of German Expressionism. A
German-English Bibliography, by Claude Hill and Ralph Ley. The
University of North Carolina Press, 1960. pp. 140-48.)
CARL STERNHEIM. Aus dem bürgerlichen Heldenleben (a selection includ-
ing Die Hose, Der Snob, 1913, Das Fossil, Bürger Schippel, Die Kass-
ette, Tabula Rasa, Der Kandidat). 2 vols. Berlin ( Aufbau Verlag), 1947.

Lustspiele (contents: Der Abenteurer, Perleberg, Der Nebbich, Der
entfesselte Zeitgenosse, Die Schule von Uznach). Berlin ( Aufbau
Verlag), 1948.

Historische Schauspiele (contents: Das leidende Weib, Manon
Lescaut, Die Marquise von Arcis, Oskar Wilde). Berlin ( Aufbau
Verlag), 1948.

A Pair of Drawers (a translation of Die Hose) in Transition, 1927.
Nos. 6-9.

A Place in the World (a translation of Der Snob, by B. Clark and
W. Katzin) in Eight European Plays. New York, 1927.

The Mask of Virtue (a translation of Die Marquise von Arcis, by
Ashley Dukes). London, 1935.

CAROL PETERSEN. Carl Sternheim, in Expressionismus: Gestalten einer
literarischen Bewegung, edited by Hermann Friedmann and Otto Mann.
Heidelberg, 1956.

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