ABSTRACT
This volume's predominant theme is bourgeois mentality and its historical development. The works of Lope de Vega, Calderon, Cervantes, and Shakespeare, among others, are analysed within the historical framework of the decline of feudalism and the rise of the absolute regimes. Those of Moliere and Goethe are set against the background of an evolving and consolidating bourgeois society in Western Europe.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|214 pages
Studies on the European Drama and Novel from the Renaissance to the Threshold of Modernity
part II|128 pages
Studies on the German Novel in the Nineteenth Century