Merry Tales and Three Shrovetide Plays (Library of World Literature Ser.)

by Hans Sachs

English, German (translation)

270 pages, Hardcover

First published September 27, 2015

About the author

People note many dramas, poems, and songs of Hans Sachs, a German writer and Meistersinger, a member of a guild, organized in the principal cities of Germany in the 14th century to 16th century to establish competitive standards for the composition and performance of music; his life inspired opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1868) of Richard Wagner.

A shoemaker, poet, and master of Meistergesang, art of singing original tunes. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe revived and popularized his work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Sachs