Siegfried's Death and Other Works

Friedrich Hebbel

Translated by Katharine Royce

86 chapters · about 5 h

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The opening

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ

Master ANTONY, a joiner His Wife CLARA, his daughter CARL, his son LEONARD A Secretary WOLFRAM, a merchant ADAM, a bailiff Another bailiff A Boy A Maid Place. A fair-sized town

MARIA MAGDALENA (1844)

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The words
Katharine Royce's English translation, copied word for word.
Left out
  • The source library's header, footer and license, in 2 places
  • Other works printed in the same volume
  • The printed table of contents (the app makes its own)
  • A preface, foreword or afterword, in 2 places
  • Printed ornaments and dividers, in 2 places
  • Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 6 places
  • Notes about a stage production
  • Pictures and their captions, in 2 places
  • The act heading (kept as the part field of its scenes) (8 blocks)
  • The author's byline printed in the volume (the app supplies attribution) (5 blocks)