ABSTRACT
The few Storm and Stress dramas acted at the most advanced theatre in Germany in the 'seventies had little success, and in a total view of the repertoire almost disappear in the mass of entertainment' pieces offered. The only German plays of some literary merit in the list quoted for 1776 are those of J. E. Schlegel, Lessing, Goethe and Leisewitz. Schlegel had been dead for nearly thirty years, and Lessing was of the older generation. The only representatives of Storm and Stress here are Goethe and Leisewitz. The selection already made by 1776 held good, authors are surprised to find, right through the nineteenth century, but only as regards the Storm and Stress plays of literary merit. Most of the remaining plays and operettes popular in 1776 did not keep their place in the repertoire for more than a decade or so.
