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Excerpt from A Study of Agnes Bernauer
The story of Agnes Bernauer is one that has appealed to several Ger man dramatists as containing material sufficiently dramatic for a tragedy. Because of Agnes' close relation to the history of Bavaria, Joseph August, Graf von Tarring, a Bavarian, determined to write a national play. Accord ingly in 1780, appeared his'mgnes Bernauerin. This story has exercised a peculiar fascination on many, but no one has probably given more time and consideration to it than Otto Ludwig. However, he left only fragments dealing with this subject, for he never grasped the plot as a whole. It seemed to him capable of so many and such varied interpretations. The most complete fragment, that of 1846, is developed only to the second scene of the third act, so that the climax is not reached, and it is im possible to tell what Ludwig had intended the catastrophe to be. Not uh til 1854 did Ludwig resume work on this subject. Then he did not finish Der Emgel von Augsburg of 1846, but began his Agnes Bernauer, of which only one act was ever finished. Ludwig's incentive to this, his last'et tempt, was Hebbel's Agnes Bernauer which appeared in 1852. This re awakened interest was due to the fact that Ludwig felt Hebbel had not shown enough emotion; Albrecht and Agnes were styled by Ludwig as cold. His intention was to change this, but as was repeatedly the case with him, there is only the fragment of 1854 to remind us of his project. Hebbel, on the other hand, following in the footsteps of Tarring, who carefully followed historical sources, has written his Agnes Bernauer with a steady.
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