German classical drama : theatre, humanity and nation, 1750-1870
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German classical drama : theatre, humanity and nation, 1750-1870
（Cambridge paperbacks）
Cambridge University Press, 1992
1st pbk. ed
- : pbk
Available at 5 libraries
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First published 1990
First paperback edition 1992
Bibliography: p. 232-235
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This historical and critical survey of the great tradition of German drama in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, provides an introduction to the major authors and works from Lessing, through Goethe, Schiller, and Weimar classicism, to Kleist, Grillparzer, and Hebbel. The development of German classical drama is seen as reflecting the intellectual and political ferment of its age: the great flowering of German philosophical thought, the rising aspirations of Germans to national unity, and the waves of revolution and counter-revolution which mark the European history of the period.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Classicism and neo-classicism, Germany and the European tradition
- 2. Classicisms in modern dress, Lessing and the beginnings of realism
- 3. The revolt of Prometheus, the 'Sturm und Drang' (i): Goethe and his circle
- 4. The revolt of Prometheus (ii): Schiller's prose plays
- 5. Thr triumph of humanity, Nathan der Weiss, Iphigenie auf Tauris, Don Carlos
- 6. Crisis and response, the beginnings of Weimar classicism
- 7. The high tide of Weimar classicism, Schiller and Goethe 1798-1805
- 8. Nordic phantoms, Goethe's Faust
- 9. A Prussian meteor, Heinrich von Kleist
- 10. Classicism in Vienna (i): Grillparzer
- 11. Classicism in Vienna (ii): Hebbel
- the end of the tradition
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
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