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Impoverished Father And Wicked: HAJO HOLBORN Author of "A History of Modem Germany"
Further Reading: Weiner, A., "The Hansa," in The Cambridge Medieval History, vol. 7 (London 1932).
HANSEL AND GRETEL, han'sal, gret'al, is a German folktale appearing in the collection by the brothers Grimm (q.v.). A brother and sister are deserted in the woods by their impoverished father and wicked stepmother. They come upon a gingerbread house, guarded by a wicked witch. She locks Hansel up, preparing to roast and eat him, but Gretel tricks the witch and burns her in her own oven.
RACHEL, ra-sheT (real name £LISA FELIX), French actress: b. Mumpf, Aargau Switzerland, March 24, 1820 or Feb. 28, 1821 ; d. Le Cannet, Provence, France, Jan. 3, 1858. Her father, an Alsatian Jew, was an impoverished peddler who wandered about Europe in his trade and at some time before 1831 established his family at Lyon, where the eldest children, Sophie (later known as Sarah) and filisa (later Rachel), sang and begged in the streets and local cafes. Subsequently the family moved to Paris, where the girls sang on the boulevards.
RIDERS TO THE SEA, by John Milling- j ton Synge, is the most nearly perfect trapf!- * in one act in modern literature. The very sir pie plot is based not on the traditional confi:: of human wills but on the hopeless struggle.: man against the impersonal but relentless cruei; of the sea. It has taken from Maurya fouroi her six sons, their father, and their father's father. |
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