Romulus der Große de Friedrich Dürrenmatt¿una comedia ligera?

  1. Carmen Aljibe Varea 1
  1. 1 Universitat d'Alacant
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    Universitat d'Alacant

    Alicante, España

    ROR https://ror.org/05t8bcz72

Book:
Picaresca - Ironía - Humor
  1. Patricia Cifre-Wibrow (coord.)
  2. Juan Manuel Martín Martín (coord.)
  3. Manuel Montesinos Caperos (coord.)

Publisher: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca ; Universidad de Salamanca

ISBN: 978-84-1311-575-7

Year of publication: 2021

Pages: 147-157

Type: Book chapter

Abstract

In this article the comedy Romulus der Große. Eine historische Komödie in vier Akten (1980), originally written by Friedrich Dürrenmatt in 1948/49 under the close memory of World War II, but reworked throughout his life in different versions, is analyzed with the intention of understanding in what sense does the author say that it is a heavy or difficult comedy, because apparently it is light or easy, that is to say what the writer understands by comedy, according to his own reflections on this and how he builds humor in this work.