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Oskar Panizza and the Love Council : A History of the Scandalous Play on Stage and in Court, with the Complete Text in English and a Biography of the Author

Brown, Peter D.G.
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In 1894, German society was introduced to The Love Council, a scandalous new play by the playwright Oskar Panizza. The carnivalesque satire, dealing with the first recorded outbreak of syphilis in 1495, portrays the scourge as divine punishment for the rampant sexual excesses in the Vatican court of the Pope of the time, the notorious Rodrigo Borgia. Panizza was imprisoned for one year on 93 counts of blasphemy, the harshest sentence ever given to an artist in the Second Empire. This book contains a detailed history of the play on stage and the court proceedings that led to Panizza's imprisonment. A new English translation of the play is included, as well as a biography of its avant-garde, modernist author.
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This is a detailed history of The Love Council, a play by Oskar Panizza that caused a scandal when it was first performed in 1894, and led to his imprisonment for a year. This is a study of the play itself and the court proceedings that led to Panizza's imprisonment. A new English translation is included, as is a biography of its avant-garde, modernist author.

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