The Song of Songs (novel)

The Song of Songs

Author	Hermann Sudermann
Original title	Das hohe Lied
Translator	Thomas Seltzer
Language	German
Publisher	J.G. Cotta
Publication date	1908
Publication place	Germany
Published in English	1909
Pages	635

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