ABSTRACT

First published in 1950. This present work examines the political, economic and social condition of Germany on literature, particular drama, in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-centuries. The author explores drama both in its passive and active relations with the life of the time and with the theatre, the medium without the aid of which the possibilities of the drama as an art form remain only half realised. This title will be of interest to students of literature, drama, and theatre studies.

chapter I|39 pages

The Situation In 1700

chapter II|46 pages

Gottsched and the Regular Theatre

chapter III|60 pages

Theatre and Theory in the Age of Lessing

chapter IV|24 pages

The Plays of Lessing’s Maturity

chapter V|32 pages

The Theatre of the ‘Seventies

chapter IX|32 pages

The Weimar Court Theatre