Everything you need to understand or teach The Tower by Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal's five-act play Der turm (The Tower) was first published in book form in 1925. A revised version of The Tower was first performed on stage in 1927. Von Hofmannsthal adapted the story, set in seventeenth century Poland, from the play La vida es sueno (Life Is a Dream; 1635), by Pedro Calderon de la Barca, the great playwright of the Golden Age in Spanish literature.
The Tower concerns the fate of Sigismund, a...
The Tower Lesson Plans contain 127 pages of teaching material, including: