ABSTRACT
More than any other author, Elsa Bernstein can be seen as a representative of her era, since she participated in most major literary movements of her time. She wrote naturalistic dramas (Three of Us, 1891; Twilight, 1893; Maria Arndt, 1908), impressionist novellas (“Caprice,” 1893), neo-romantic fairy tales (Kingly Children, 1894), a symbolistic dramatic requiem (Mother Mary, 1900) and neoclassical tragedies (Nausikaa, 1906, and Achilles, 1910). Aside from twenty dramas, of which eight were performed and twelve were printed, she authored numerous novellas and poems.
