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Der Bürgergeneral
''Der Bürgergeneral'' (English: ''The Citizen General'') is a comedy (drama), comedy in one act by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, written and published in 1793. It satirises the French Revolution through the story of a man who poses as a revolutionary in order to con a rich peasant out of a meal. The deception causes a brief panic before a nobleman steps in to expose the perpetrator, mete out justice and restore order. Goethe wrote the play in only three days and staged it at the Deutsches Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle Weimar, Weimar Court Theatre, of which he was director. Synopsis Schnaps, the protagonist, is a rascally barber who poses as a revolutionary general using an outfit stolen from a dying French prisoner of war: a French National Guard uniform, a liberty cap, a tricolour cockade and a sabre. He pretends to be part of a conspiracy working towards an imminent revolution, in order to trick Märten, a wealthy but elderly peasant, into providing him with a free meal of br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Der Bürgergeneral 1793 Frontispiece
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