W. Edgar Yates
W. Edgar Yates (actually William Edgar , called Gar Yates ) (born April 30, 1938 in Hove , Sussex ) is an English Germanist and expert on Austrian literary history and the Biedermeier period .
Live and act
After studying and teaching at Durham University , Gar Yates was a professor at Exeter University from 1972 , and retired in 2001. He is one of the co-editors of the historically critical Nestroy edition . In addition, he is co-editor of the "Quodlibet" series and long-time editor of Nestroyana (1992–2009, from 2002 in collaboration with Ulrike Tanzer ).
He is the Vice President of the International Nestroy Society .
Publications (selection)
- Grillparzer : A Critical Introduction (1972)
- Nestroy: Satire and Parody in Viennese Popular Comedy (1972)
- Humanity in Weimar and Vienna: The Continuity of an Ideal (1973)
- Tradition in the German Sonnet (1981)
- Nestroy (Eds. Pieces 12-14, 1981-82; Pieces 34, 1989; Pieces 18 / I 1991; Pieces 22, 1996; Pieces 17 / II 1998, Ed. With Jürgen Hein Pieces 2, 2000, Ed. With Peter Haida Supplements I-II, 2007)
- Viennese Popular Theater (Ed. With John RP McKenzie, 1985)
- Grillparzer and the European tradition (Ed. With R. Pichl et al., 1987)
- Schnitzler , Hofmannsthal , and the Austrian Theater (1992)
- Nestroy and the Critics (1994)
- From creative to edited Nestroy (ed, 1994)
- Theater in Vienna: A Critical History, 1776–1995 (1996)
- Nestroy's Reserve and Other Notes (ed. 2000, revised. 2003)
- Nestroy in Munich (with B. Pargner, 2001)
- The Unknown Nestroy (Ed. 2001)
- In the case of time relationships, such private relationships (Ed. 2001)
- Behind the scenes of Biedermeier and Nachmärz (Ed. With Hubert Christian Ehalt and Jürgen Hein, 2001)
- From Perinet to Jelinek : Viennese Theater in its Political and Intellectual Context (Ed. With A. Fiddler and J. Warren, 2001)
- Letters from theater director Carl Carl and his wife Margarethe Carl to Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer (Ed. With B. Pargner, 2004)
- Theater and Society in 19th Century Vienna (Ed. With U. Tanzer, 2006)
- "I am only a poet of the farce": Johann Nepomuk Nestroy. Attempt a biography (2012)
Honors (Festschrift)
- John Richard Philip McKenzie and L. Sharpe (Eds.): The Austrian Comic Tradition (1998).
Web links
- Literature by and about W. Edgar Yates in the catalog of the German National Library
- William Edgar Yates at WorldCat
- WE Yates - authorized biography
- WE Yates with portrait
- Nestroyana
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Yates, W. Edgar |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Yates, William Edgar (real name); Yates, Gar (nickname) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English literary and theater researcher with a focus on Austria |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 30, 1938 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hove , Sussex, England |