This historical and critical survey of German drama in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries provides an introduction to major authors and works from Lessing, through Goethe, Schiller and Weimar Classicism, to Kleist, Grillparzer and Hebbel. F.J. Lamport traces the rise and development in the German-speaking world of the last form of "classical" poetic drama to appear in European literature. This development is seen as reflecting the intellectual and political ferment both within Germany and throughout Europe.
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"...skillfully interweaves literary and theatre history, reception, and formal analysis in a manner which is at once erudite and insightful." Essays in Theatre
"...the book appears to be of interest not primarily to the specialist student, but rather to the theatergoer who would like to broaden his acquaintance with leading German dramatists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries." Lessing Yearbook XXIII
"...a judicious, solidly grounded history of the German drama in the years just prior to the Storm and Stress period and up to the creation of a newly unified Germany....provides not only a balanced, interesting introduction to a highly significant segment of European literature but also a concise commentary on recent critical analysis of the works in question." Choice
"...an excellent introduction." The German Quarterly
"Lamport makes his well-written, engaging, and insightful study additionally accessible to specialist and non-specialist alike by giving all primary quotations in German and English translation, by providing a carefully assembled bibliography that pays particular attention to recent Anglo-American criticism, and by at times going out of his way to enlighten the neophyte....Lamport's is presently the only English literary-historical critical survey devoted exclusively to German drama of the classical era." Stephen R. Huff, Comparative Drama |x x
"...the book appears to be of interest not primarily to the specialist student, but rather to the theatergoer who would like to broaden his acquaintance with leading German dramatists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries." Lessing Yearbook XXIII
"...a judicious, solidly grounded history of the German drama in the years just prior to the Storm and Stress period and up to the creation of a newly unified Germany....provides not only a balanced, interesting introduction to a highly significant segment of European literature but also a concise commentary on recent critical analysis of the works in question." Choice
"...an excellent introduction." The German Quarterly
"Lamport makes his well-written, engaging, and insightful study additionally accessible to specialist and non-specialist alike by giving all primary quotations in German and English translation, by providing a carefully assembled bibliography that pays particular attention to recent Anglo-American criticism, and by at times going out of his way to enlighten the neophyte....Lamport's is presently the only English literary-historical critical survey devoted exclusively to German drama of the classical era." Stephen R. Huff, Comparative Drama |x x
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This historical and critical survey of German drama in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries provides an introduction to major authors and works from Lessing, through Goethe, Schiller and Weimar Classicism, to Kleist, Grillparzer and Hebbel.
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In Nestroy's farce Einen Jux will er sich machen (rendered by Tom Stoppard in his adaptation as On The Razzle) the newly engaged servant Melchior is challenged by his employer, Zangler, as to the meaning of his constantly repeated catch-phrase, 'That's classic': ZANGLER Why do you keep using that stupid word 'classic'? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Don Carlos, Emilia Galotti, Maria Stuart, Miss Sara Sampson, Minna von Barnhelm, Die Braut von Messina, Maria Magdalena, Die Familie Schroffenstein, Die Jungfrau von Orleans, Golden Age, Holy Roman Empire, Wilhelm Meister, Agnes Bernauer, Der Traum, Die Hermannsschlacht, King Philip, Prinz Friedrich von Homburg, Schiller's Wallenstein, Wallensteins Tod, Wilhelm Tell, Earth Spirit, Franz Moor, Goethe's Faust, Golden Fleece, Karl Moor New!
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In Nestroy's farce Einen Jux will er sich machen (rendered by Tom Stoppard in his adaptation as On The Razzle) the newly engaged servant Melchior is challenged by his employer, Zangler, as to the meaning of his constantly repeated catch-phrase, 'That's classic': ZANGLER Why do you keep using that stupid word 'classic'? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Don Carlos, Emilia Galotti, Maria Stuart, Miss Sara Sampson, Minna von Barnhelm, Die Braut von Messina, Maria Magdalena, Die Familie Schroffenstein, Die Jungfrau von Orleans, Golden Age, Holy Roman Empire, Wilhelm Meister, Agnes Bernauer, Der Traum, Die Hermannsschlacht, King Philip, Prinz Friedrich von Homburg, Schiller's Wallenstein, Wallensteins Tod, Wilhelm Tell, Earth Spirit, Franz Moor, Goethe's Faust, Golden Fleece, Karl Moor New!
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- Don Carlos by Frederick Schiller on 17 pages
- Don Carlos (Classics in Translation) by Friedrich Schiller on 17 pages
- Don Carlos by Friedrich Schiller on 17 pages
- Friedrich Schiller, Maria Stuart (German Edition) by Friedrich von Schiller on 11 pages
- Maria Stuart: Trauerspiel in funf Aufzugen by Friedrich von Schiller on 11 pages
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- English Literature and Ancient Languages by Kenneth Haynes in Back Matter
- Four Georgian and Pre-Revolutionary Plays: The Rivals, She Stoops to Conquer, The Marriage of Figaro, Emilia Galotti by David Thomas in Back Matter
- Sources of Dramatic Theory: Volume 2, Voltaire to Hugo by Michael J. Sidnell in Back Matter
- Don Carlos and Mary Stuart (Oxford World's Classics) by Friedrich Schiller in Front Matter
- Body Dialectics in the Age of Goethe (Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik 55) by Marianne Henn on page 244
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