The Song of Songs (novel) explained

The Song of Songs
Author:	Hermann Sudermann
Title Orig:	Das hohe Lied
Translator:	Thomas Seltzer
Country:	Germany
Language:	German
Publisher:	J.G. Cotta
Pub Date:	1908
English Pub Date:	1909
Pages:	635

The Song of Songs 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)

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. SAGE Publications. 43. 1. 3–13. 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

Notes and References

1. Book: The Song of songs : . WorldCat. 372470.
2. Book: The Song of songs. WorldCat. 6312127.
3. Web site: Verfilmungen. German. Hermann Sudermann Stiftung. 2015-11-08.