The Sunken Bell

The Sunken Bell (German: Die versunkene Glocke) is a poetic play in blank verse by Gerhart Hauptmann (1896).

For other uses, see The Sunken Bell (disambiguation).

Plot

It is a fairy drama, the chief human character of which is Heinrich, a master bellfounder who has completed his crowning work, a bell which is to be hung in a church on a mountain inhabited by sprites. Through the hostility of the sprites, the wagon bearing the bell is overthrown and the latter is sunk in a mountain lake. Heinrich is injured and is nursed by the chief personage of the drama, Rautendelein, half child, half fairy, whose love changes Heinrich's standards and brings about the death of his wife.

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    References
    • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Sunken Bell, The" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
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