!!!Neidhartspiele

Neidhartspiele, plays that emerged from imitations of the farces by  
Neidhart von Reuental (especially the Veilchenschwank farce), which 
were performed during Shrovetide. The St. Paul Neidhartspiel play of 
Spital an der Pyhrn (Upper Austria, handed down only in fragments), 
which is named after the library of St. Paul Abbey in Carinthia, is 
the oldest secular German play (around 1360/70, Bavarian-Austrian with 
Latin stage directions). The Tyrolean or Great Neidhardspiel play is 
the most comprehensive mediaeval comic play (2,624 verses and more 
than 70 speaking parts). Two Neidhardspiel plays originating from 
South Tyrol are also extant.

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Annotated edition: J. Margetts (ed.), Neidhartspiele, 1982; idem, 
facsimile-edition, 1986.

!Literature
Deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters (lex.).


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