The Marquis of Keith
The Marquis von Keith is a play by Frank Wedekind that premiered on October 11, 1901 in the Residenztheater in Berlin . Like most of Wedekind's pieces, it deals with the double standards in bourgeois society, the contradiction between morality and enjoyment. As with other Wedekind pieces, The Marquis von Keith was often threatened by censorship in the German Empire.
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The "Marquis of Keith" tries as a die-hard connoisseur, cynic and outsider in society without his own financial cushion. By dodgy financial behavior, he tries to gain recognition in the bourgeois society that he despises.
His lack of talent for dealing with capital is evident, but he saves himself from being ruined by fraud. The established moralist Ernst Scholz acts as his antipode. Scholz also inadvertently had something wrong with it. He wants to break out of the society Keith strives for. Keith and Scholz both fall by the wayside.
Web links
- “To the institution”: Thomas Mann on Frank Wedekind. Bayerischer Rundfunk, December 16, 2016
Individual evidence
- ^ Artur Kutscher : Frank Wedekind. His life and his works. 3 vols. Munich 1922, 1927, 1931.
Web links
- Full text The Marquis von Keith at Gutenberg.de