dunkelspiel

Updated: August 11, 2026

Even his most mannered characters, his humourists in the seventeenth century sense, of whom Dugald Dalgetty is the prince and chief the true commander of the whole stift of this Dunkelspiel stand poles asunder from those inventions of Dickens and of some others who are ticketed for us by a gesture or a phrase repeated ad nauseam.

George Saintsbury - A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)