THE FAR-AWAY PRINCESS BY HERMANN SUDERMANN
Reading edition
The Far-Away Princess is reprinted by special arrangement with Charles Scribner's Sons, the publishers of Roses, from which this play is taken. For permission to perform address the publishers.
HERMANN SUDERMANN
Hermann Sudermann, one of the foremost of the Continental European dramatists, was born at Matziken, in East Prussia, Germany, September 30, 1857. He attended school at Elbing and Tilsit, and then at fourteen became a druggist's apprentice. He received his university training at Königsberg and Berlin. Soon he devoted his energies to literary work.
His greatest literary work is in the field of the drama, in which he became successful almost instantly. His strength is not in poetic beauty and in deep insight into human character, as in the instance of a number of other German dramatists. He is essentially a man of the theatre, a dramatist, and a technician by instinct. He is a dramatic craftsman of the first order.
His chief one-act plays are in two volumes: Morituri, which contains Teja, Fritchen, and The Eternal Masculine; and Roses, which contains Streaks of Light, Margot, The Last Visit, and The Far-Away Princess.
The Far-Away Princess is one of the most subtle and most delicate of Sudermann's plays. Its technic is exemplary.
CHARACTERS
The Princess von Geldern
Baroness von Brook, her maid of honor
Frau von Halldorf
Liddy }her daughters
Milly }
Fritz Strübel, a student
Frau Lindemann
Rosa, a waitress
A Lackey