"...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
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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. 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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