Books by W. H. Bruford

The present work . . . a continuation of the earlier [is] a study of one literary genre, the drama . . both in its passive and active relations with the life of the time and with the theatre, the medium without the aid of which the possibilities of the drama as an art form remain only half realized, like a musical score which is never performed.

From the masquerades of the court to the half-naked children of the peasants; from hunting and winter sports to publishing; from law to sanitation, this 1935 book plunges the reader into life in Germany two hundred years ago, linking everyday life with outstanding features in the thought of the age.

A paperback of the hardcover edition, first published in 1962. The book describes Goethe's Weimar from documents and research and interprets the connections between German culture and German society both in the age of Goethe and later.