ABSTRACT

Viewing for a moment the course of one's present inquiry in retrospect, it will be seen, first, established the principle of dramatic poetry in its widest and more specific characteristics, and in its relation to the general public. Secondly, deduced from the fact of the drama's presenting an action distinct and independent in its actually visible development the conclusion that a fully complete sensuous reproduction is also essential, such as for the first time possible under artistic conditions in the theatrical performance. Third, by resolving dramatic poetry into particular types, receiving their typical character, opposition and also one of mediatory relation to such opposition, from the distinction, in which not only the end but also the characters, as also the conflict and entire result of the action, are manifested. The higher conception of reconciliation in tragedy is on the contrary related to the resolution of specific ethical and substantive facts from their contradiction into their true harmony.