W. Edgar Yates

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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 .

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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).

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personal data
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