The Song of Songs (novel)

1908 novel by Hermann Sudermann

The Song of Songs (German: Das hohe Lied) is a 1908 novel by the German writer Hermann Sudermann. It was published in English in 1909, translated by Thomas Seltzer.^[1] A new translation by Beatrice Marshall was published in 1913.^[2]

Adaptations

• 1914: The Song of Songs, play by Edward Sheldon
• 1918: The Song of Songs, film directed by Joseph Kaufman
• 1924: Lily of the Dust, film directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki
• 1933: The Song of Songs, film directed by Rouben Mamoulian^[3]
• 1973: The Song of Songs, BBC Television mini-series (with Penelope Wilton as Lily)

References

1. The Song of songs : <Das Hohe lied>. OCLC 372470 – via WorldCat.
2. The Song of songs. OCLC 6312127 – via WorldCat.
3. "Verfilmungen" (in German). Hermann Sudermann Stiftung. Retrieved 2015-11-08.

Further reading

• Patterson, Anthony (2013). "The sentimentalization of the unpleasant: Naturalism, censorship and the British reception of Hermann Sudermann's The Song of Songs (1909)". Journal of European Studies. 43 (1). SAGE Publications: 3–13. doi:10.1177/0047244112469778.

External links

• The Song of Songs at Project Gutenberg, Seltzer's translation
• The Song of Songs at Project Gutenberg, Marshall's translation