I owe hearty thanks to Dr. Hauptmann for the promptness and cordiality
with which he has either rectified or confirmed my view of the
development and meaning of his thought and art as stated in the
Introduction, and to my wife for faithful assistance in the preparation
of these volumes.
LUDWIG LEWISOHN.
COLUMBUS, O., June, 1912.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
_By the Editor._
BEFORE DAWN (Vor Sonnenaufgang)
_Translated by the Editor._
THE WEAVERS (Die Weber)
_Translated by Mary Morison._
THE BEAVER COAT (Der Biberpelz)
_Translated by the Editor._
THE CONFLAGRATION (Der rote Hahn)
_Translated by the Editor._
INTRODUCTION
I
Gerhart Hauptmann, the most distinguished of modern German dramatists,
was born in the Silesian village of Obersalzbrunn on November 15, 1862.
By descent he springs immediately from the common people of his native
province to whose life he has so often given the graveness of tragedy and
the permanence of literature. His grandfather, Ehrenfried, felt in his
own person the bitter fate of the Silesian weavers and only through
energy and good fortune was enabled to change his trade to that of a
waiter. By 1824 he was an independent inn-keeper and was followed in the
same business by the poet's father, Robert Hauptmann.
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