Word: hunchback
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...exemplify this. The plot is, that Werner, a man of high principle, but weak-minded, under the pressure of circumstances, reaches a high position through the crimes of himself and his son, suffering afterwards the tortures of a guilty conscience. In the "Deformed Transformed," Arnold, a hunchback, sells his soul to the Devil, who takes the name of Caesar; his noble spirit, however, obtains him glory, and he retires from the play with a love he wins at the point of the sword...