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Death and the Ploughman

Work

Johannes von Saaz wrote the Early New High German story "Death and the Ploughman" as a way of dealing with the death of his wife during childbirth in or around 1401. The work is a tragic dialogue between Death and a recently widowed farmer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Ackermann_aus_Böhmen
circa 1401
WORK.1401.0001
Johannes von Tepl (author), Peter Case (adapter)
Death and the Ploughman (2006)
Johannes, von Tepl, approximately 1350-1414 or 1415. Ackermann aus Böhmen. English , German literature--Czech Republic--Bohemia, Bereavement, Death
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