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Die verhangnissvolle Gabel_ (_The Fatal Fork_); _Der romantische Oedipus_. [307] _Die Nibelungen_; _Judith_, &c. [308] _Der Erbforster._ [309] _Uriel Acosta_; _Der Kunigslieutenant._ [310] _Die Valentine._ [311] _Die Karlsschuler._ [312] _Der Pfarrer von Kirchfeld_; _Der Meineidbauer_; _Die Kreuzelschreiber_; _Das vierte Gebot_. [313] _The Robbers_ (Franz Moor). His next most famous part was Lear. [314] In connexion with the production in 1855 of "F. Halm's" _Fechter von Ravenna_, of which the authorship was claimed by a half-demented schoolmaster. [315] As to more recent developments of German theatrical literature see the article GERMAN LITERATURE, and the remarks on the influence of foreign works in the section on _Recent English Drama_ above. [316] _Aluta_; _Asotus_; _Hecastus_, &c. [317] _Gysbrecht van Aemstel_; _Lucifer_. [318] _Ulysses of Ithaca._ [319] _The Politician-Tinman_; _Jean de France or Hans Franzen; The Lying-In_, &c. [320] _Aladdin_; _Corregio._ [321] _Maria Stuart_; _A Bankruptcy_; _Leonarda._ [322] _Brand_; _Peer Gynt._ [323] _Samfundets Stuttere_; _Et Dukkehjem_; _Gengangere._ [324] _Pan Jowialski_; _Oludki i Poeta_ (_The Misanthrope and the Poet_). DRAMBURG, a town of Germany in the kingdom of Prussia, on the Drage, a tributary of the Oder, 50 m. E. of Stettin, on the railway Ruhnow-Neustettin. Pop. 5800. It contains an Evangelical church, a gymnasium, a hospital and various administrative offices, and carries on cotton and woollen weaving, tanning, brewing and distilling. DRAMMEN, a seaport of Norway, in Buskerud and Jarlsberg-Laurvik _amter_ (counties), at the head of Drammen Fjord, a western arm of Christiania Fjord, 33 m. by rail S. W. from Christiania. Pop. (1900) 23,093. Its situation, at the mouth of the broad Drammen river, between lofty hills, is very beautiful. It is the junction of railways from Christiania to Haugsund, Kongsberg and Hunefos, and to Laurvik and Skien. The town is modern, having suffered from fires in 1866, 1870 and 1880. It consists of three parts: Bragernaes on the north, divided by the river from Strumsu and the port, Tangen, on the south. The prosperity of Drammen depends mainly on the timber trade; and saw-milling is an active industry, the logs being floated down the river from the upland forests. Timber and wood-pulp are exported (over half
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