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Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature

English translation · Translated by John Black

by August Wilhelm von Schlegel

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Greek tragedy takes the first long stretch of August Wilhelm Schlegel's Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature. After opening lectures on true criticism, the taste of the ancients against the moderns, and classical against romantic art, they treat the Greek stage, masks and chorus, then Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, including a comparison of their three plays on the Electra story.

Later lectures turn to Aristophanes and the Old Comedy, the New Comedy, Plautus and Terence, and the Roman theatre. The edition adds a translator's preface, the author's preface and a memoir of Schlegel's life. He gave the lectures in Vienna in 1808.

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Pages
458
Language
English
Genre
Theater
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