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See also:AYRER, See also:JAKOB (?-16o5) , See also:German dramatist, of whose See also:life little is known. He seems to have come to See also:Nuremberg as a boy and worked his way up to the position of imperial See also:notary. He died at Nuremberg on the 26th of See also:March 16o5. Besides a rhymed Chronik der Stadt See also:Bamberg (edited by J. See also:Heller, Bamberg, 1838), and an unpublished See also:translation of the See also:Psalms, Ayrer has See also:left a large number of dramas which were printed at Nuremberg under the See also:title See also:Opus Theatricum in 1618. This collection contains See also:thirty tragedies and comedies and thirty-six Fastnachtsspiele (Shrovetide plays) and Singspiele. As a dramatist, Ayrer is virtually the successor of Hans See also:Sachs (q.v.), but he came under the See also:influence of the so-called Englische Komodianten, that is, troupes of See also:English actors, who, at the See also:close of the 16th See also:century and during the 17th, repeatedly visited the See also:continent, bringing with them the repertory of the Elizabethan See also:theatre. From those actors Ayrer learned how to enliven his dramas with sensational incidents and spectacular effects, and from them he borrowed the See also:character of the See also:clown. His plays, however, are in spite of his See also:foreign See also:models, hardly more dramatic, in the true sense of the word, than those of Hans Sachs, and they are inferior to the latter in poetic qualities. The plots of two of his comedies, Von der schonen See also:Phoenicia and Von der schonen Sidea, were evidently See also:drawn from the 'same See also:sources as those of See also:Shakespeare's Much See also:Ado about Nothing and See also:Tempest.
Ayrers Dramen, edited by A. von Koller, have been published by the See also:Stuttgart Lit. Verein (1864-1865). See also L. See also:Tieck, Deutsches Theater (1817) ; A. See also:Cohn, Shakespeare in See also:Germany (1885), which contains a translation of the two plays mentioned above; J. Tittmann, Schauspiele See also:des sechzehnten Jahrhunderts (1888).
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