Schicksaldrama

…attacked its extravagances, particularly the Schicksaldrama, or fate drama, in his witty comedies in the manner of Aristophanes: Die verhängnisvolle Gabel (1826; “The Fateful Prong”) and Der romantische Oedipus (1829; “The Romantic Oedipus”). Der romantische Oedipus earned him the enmity of two other eminent German writers—Karl Immermann, whose work was…