ABSTRACT
The romantic dramatist is usually on the look-out for ways of escaping from the tight net of the 'Verhältnis des menschlichen l.ebens'. His tendency, therefore, is to give relatively little attention to specific characterisation, to the creation of tension in a close-knit action, or to a truly dramatic dialogue arising out of and furthering such an action. Serious romantic drama, has the tendency to focus on the infinite, to present the root of all being rather than the specific, finite human being. Ludwig Tieck does make some attempt at a portrayal of such a struggle in the most poetically successful of his serious dramas, the full title of which is Leben und Tad der Heiligen Genoveva. The Romantics consistently aim, in comedy, to set the comic element free from restraint by didactic, or other considerations. Joseph von Eichendorff considers that comedy should aim to produce a state of emancipation from the practical cares of the everyday world.
