Pietism in Petticoats and Other Comedies

by John R. Russell, Louise Adelgunde Victo Gottsched, Thomas Kerth, et al.

First English translation of Gottsched's five original comedies.

Luise Adelgunde Gottsched (1713-1762), poet, essayist, translator, and playwright, was regarded during her lifetime as intellectually the most formidable woman in Germany. Together with her better-known husband, Johann C. Gottsched, she crusaded to reform the language and literary taste of the Germans. Frau Gottsched's most important contribution to German literature came in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1879751607
• ISBN13: 9781879751606
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"