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AYRER, JAKOB (?-16o5) , German dramatist, of whose life little is known. He seems to have come to Nuremberg as a boy and worked his way up to the position of imperial notary. He died at Nuremberg on the 26th of March
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Sachs (q.v.), but he came under the influence of the so-called Englische Komodianten, that is, troupes of English actors, who, at the close of the 16th century and during the 17th, repeatedly visited the continent, bringing with them the repertory of the Elizabethan theatre. From those actors Ayrer learned how to enliven his dramas with sensational incidents and spectacular effects, and from them he borrowed the character of the clown. His plays, however, are in spite of his foreign models, hardly more dramatic, in the true sense of the word, than those of Hans Sachs , and they are inferior to the latter in poetic qualities. The plots of two of his comedies, Von der schonen Phoenicia and Von der schonen Sidea, were evidently drawn
Ayrers Dramen, edited by A. von Koller, have been published by the Stuttgart
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