Hans is a happy new father but when the infant screams, he beats it. His wife Liesel worries, but she is in denial. Then Hans wants to baptise the child in beer. They quarrel again and eventually agree to call the infant Stiefele (boot), so that it will always have good shoes. The innkeeper Schnallans must prepare a feast, but they do not agree on the menu and Hans beats him to death. A police officer grabs him and wants to hang him, but Hans hangs him instead. Liesel worries because of the double murder which weights on her husband’s conscience and, above all, because there is no one to prepare the feast anymore. Hans settles the matter by fetching a whole Swiss cheese.

Not specified

Müller Alphons

Germany

Frankfurt

Printed

Household

Couple

Family

Father

Infant

Feast

Party

Meals

Police

Justice

Gallows

Assassination

Serial murder

Cheese

Beer

Hanswurst

Farcical

Comical

Front cover of the collection Sechs neue Lust-Spiele für das Porzinell-Theater

German

Idyllisches Lustspiel in einem Akt

Mother

Baby

Innkeeper

Police officer

Murder on stage

Comic equivocation

Hanging scene

Versified passages

Fight

Domestic scene

Die Taufe

The Christening

Casper is accused by a farmer of stealing his hay and the cart and cow that went with it. He tries to bargain over the compensation and settles the matter with a stick. In court, he insults the judge and beats the policeman. The peasant asks for him to be hanged, but Casper finds out and hangs him instead. Then he beats the policeman again. The judge wants him tortured and executed, but Casper beats him to death.

Glove-puppet

Young audiences

Sonneberg

Theft

Retribution

Punishment

Torture

Jail

Judgment

Prosecution

Violence

Embezzlement

Silliness

Wickedness

Insubordination

Ironic

Kasperl

Judge

Policeman

Peasant (man)

Address to the public

Flying machine

Blow-with-a-stick

Parodic trial

Stichomythia

Foul language register

Epilogue

Casper soll ins Gefängnis kommen

Casper must go to jail

Casper goes to the magic factory to learn magic tricks. The magician shows him some, but Casper is so crude that the magician soon doesn't know what to say, whereupon Casper calls him a donkey. They fight, one with his stick and the other with his broom. Casper defeats the magician. A policeman comes to arrest him, but Casper knocks him out and hangs him on the gallows. His wife blames him, they argue and fight.

Magic

Triviality

Vulgarity

Rebellion

Stick

Broom

Magician

Word for another

Brawl

Casper will Zauberer werden

Casper wants to become a magician

In the first part, Roberto talks to the Intendente (Police officer) about the beauty of the play that is about to start; he asks him for permission to perform it. The Intendente allows him to speak; he is thus symbolising censorship. Roberto introduces himself as a “child of the people” but also as “the grandson of Gil Vicente”, the famous Portuguese playwright (1465?-1536?); he requests a round of applause. In the second and third parts, Roberto simply reveals the title of the plays that are to be performed.

Santa-Rita Augusto de (aka Santa-Rita)

Portugal

Lisbon

Typed or electronic text with handwritten annotations

Dom Roberto

Censorship

Augusto de Santa Rita, Prólogo (first page with the censorship approval stamp).