Tales from the Vienna Woods (play) Tales from the Vienna Woods (play) Tales from the Vienna Woods (, 1931) is a play by Austro-Hungarian writer Ödön von Horváth. It was premièred in Berlin in 1931 and has been filmed several times. Before the première, the German writer and playwright, Carl Zuckmayer nominated the play for the Kleist Prize, which it won, the most significant literary award of the Weimar Republic. The play's title is a reference to the waltz "Tales from the Vienna Woods" by Johann Strauss II. Horváth's play premièred at the Deutsches Theater, Berlin. Written in the late 1920s during the period of catastrophic
Tales from Ovid Tales from Ovid Tales from Ovid is a poetical work written by the English poet Ted Hughes (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998). Published in 1997 by Faber and Faber, it is a retelling of twenty-four tales from Ovid's "Metamorphoses". It won the Whitbread Book Of The Year Award for 1997 and has been translated into several languages. It was one of his last published works along with "Birthday Letters". Four of the tales were previously published in "After Ovid, New Metamorphosis", edited by M. Hofmann and J. Ladun. A stage adaptation was performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company