The tailor Bock lodges a complaint with the mayor Salzmaier against Kasperl, his tenant, for night-time disturbances. Salzmaier wants to put him in prison, but Kasperl, warned by his clerk friend Spritzler, pretends to be Garibaldi, entering the Tyrol leading 50,000 men. He takes up residence in Salzmaier's house, flirts with his wife Margarethe and drinks so much beer... that everyone recognises him: the play ends with a general brawl.

String marionette

Young audiences

Pocci Franz von

Germany

Munich

Printed

Excessive drinking

Beer

Spousal abuse

Italy

Army

Seduction

Comical

Burlesque

Satirical

German

Ein politisches Trauerspiel, aus dem Italienischen übersetzt

Greffier

Kasperl

Madame Kasperl

Tailleur

Innkeeper

In der Ferne das Garibaldische Armeekorps

Inn scene

Political allegory

Parody of formal language

Word for another

Nearly

Dialect

Macaronism

Disguise

Brawl

Kasperl als Garibaldi

Kasperl as Garibaldi

Don Juan overhears a conversation between Amarillis and Don Philippo, who agree to a romantic rendezvous. He sets out to kidnap Amarillis, when her father, Don Pietro, appears. Don Juan stabs him, and then robs his relative Don Alvaro Pantolfius, before fleeing Seville with his servant Schängche. The latter, tormented by a devil, is carried into the air on a giant sausage. After a shipwreck in which Schängche is swallowed and then spat out by a whale, the two fugitives wander through the woods. They meet a hermit, who, under threat, lends Don Juan a suit to disguise himself. Lost in the forest, Amarillis meets Schängche's fiancée, the innkeeper Greta de la Rosa. Don Juan finds the two women and tries to seduce them, but Don Philippo finds him in the meantime. Don Juan murders him. Schängche still has to fight a monster they meet in the forest. They arrive by chance at Greta's inn, where Don Juan seduces the bride of a wedding that has just taken place. At the cemetery, he invites the statue of Don Pietro to supper, who accepts his invitation. But Don Juan refuses to repent and is damned. Schängche, on the other hand, marries Greta.

Rod puppet

Not specified

Will Hermanns (Peter Josef Wilhelm Hermanns)

Aachen

Abduction

Murder

Money

Debauchery

Perlicke

Leviathan

Monster

Sausage

Damnation

Forest

Tavern

Dramatic

Don Juan der Fraulütstrüester

Ein schauerlich-schönes Spiel in 5 Akten mit Sing-, Flieg- und Keilerei

Don Pietro

Donna Marillis

Don Filippo

Don Juan

Pantolfius

Hermit

Devil

Court usher

Versified passages

Song

Lazzi

Tragic irony

Off-stage voices

Stichomythia

Monologue

Blow-with-a-stick

Devil's apparition

Murder on stage

Pact with the devil

Der steinerne Gast

The stone guest

After a prologue where Pulcinella introduces the play and the dog sings a song, Teresina is attacked by a man in the street. The Moon appears to Teresina and calls her to come in a bid to protect her. Pulcinella looks for his beloved but the Moon prevents him from approaching. Pulcinella disguises himself as a woman, he is attacked by the same man as Teresina, and is then pursued by Death disguised as a policeman who wants to tire him out with domestic chores. Pulcinella flies off to the Moon and persuades Teresina to come back with him. Back on Earth, the two lovers take revenge on their attacker, who turns out to be a child calling out to his mother for help, and they eat a dish of spaghetti.