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Besondere Forschungsgebiete: Drama from Lessing to the present; Anglo-German literary relations; Images of antisemitism in literature; German-Jewish literary relations

Monographien: Mensch und Gesellschaft bei J.B. Priestley (1962). (with E.R. Baer) Der arme Millionär (1967, 1976). From Lessing to Hauptmann: Studies in German Drama (1974). Christian Dietrich Grabbe (1996).

Aufsätze und Beiträge: Die mißbrauchten Liebesbriefe. A Story of Human Vocation (GLL, 1966). Contribution to Penguin Companion to European Literature (ed. A.K. Thorlby) (1969). Contributions to Langenscheidt's Muret-Sanders Enzyklopädisches Wörterbuch (1974). The Drama of Freedom: From Lessing to Hebbel, in Literature and Western Civilisation (ed. D. Daiches et al.) (1975). Domestic Tragedy - Realism and the Middle Classes, in The German Theatre (ed. R. Hayman) (1975). (with L. Lerner) Views of Roman History: Coriolanus and Coriolan (CL, 1977). Peter Weiss's Marat/Sade: A Portrait of the Artist in Bourgeois Society (MLR, 1981). German Drama before Brecht: from Neo-Classicism to Expressionism, in Brecht in Perspective (ed. G. Bartram et al.) (1982). Articles on Hebbel, Kleist and Wedekind, in Great Foreign-Language Writers (1984). 'Don Juan and Faust' - Grabbes Drama in einer englischen Radiobearbeitung von Peter Barnes (Grabbe-Jahrbuch, 1989). The University and the State: Michael Zeller's Novel Follens Erbe (MLR, 1989). From Watermouth to Winkeln - Does the 'university novel' travel?, in Common Currency? Anglo-German Literary Relations since 1945 (ed. J.L. Flood) (1991). 'The Second Time as Farce'? Hasenclever's Der Sohn and Schiller's Don Carlos (MLR, 1993). Das Lustspiel, das sich nicht schreiben ließ. Christian Dietrich Grabbes mißglücktes Eulenspiegel-Projekt (Eulenspiegel-Jahrbuch, 1993). Christian Dietrich Grabbe, in International Dictionary of the Theatre (1994). Articles on Grabbe, Hebbel, Kleist, Schiller, Wedekind and Peter Weiss, in Reference Guide to World Literature (ed. L. Henderson) (1995). Oleanna in Hamburg (TLS, 1995). Graven Images: Anti-Semitism, Prejudice and Jewish Identity in Max Frisch's Andorra and Arthur Miller's Focus (Jewish Quarterly, 1997*). 'Insanity in the Darkness': Anti-Semitic Stereotypes and Jewish Identity in Max Frisch's Andorra and Arthur Miller's Focus (MLR, 1997*).

Übersetzungen: Grabbe über seine Werke (1991). (with I. Petrovics et al.) Forms of Identity, Definitions and Changes (1994).

Zusätzliche Kurzinformationen: Dr phil (Zürich)