Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature. August Wilhelm von Schlegel
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August Wilhelm von Schlegel
Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664572318
Table of Contents
MEMOIR OF THE LITERARY LIFE OF AUGUSTUS WILLIAM VON SCHLEGEL
LECTURE I.
Introduction—Spirit of True Criticism—Difference of Taste between the
Ancients and Moderns—Classical and Romantic Poetry and Art—Division of
Dramatic Literature; the Ancients, their Imitators, and the Romantic Poets.
LECTURE II.
Definition of the Drama—View of the Theatres of all Nations—Theatrical
Effect—Importance of the Stage—Principal Species of the Drama.
LECTURE III.
Essence of Tragedy and Comedy—Earnestness and Sport—How far it is possible to become acquainted with the Ancients without knowing Original Languages—Winkelmann.
LECTURE IV.
Structure of the Stage among the Greeks—Their Acting—Use of Masks—False comparison of Ancient Tragedy to the Opera—Tragical Lyric Poetry.
LECTURE V.
Essence of the Greek Tragedies—Ideality of the Representation—Idea of
Fate—Source of the Pleasure derived from Tragical Representations—Import
of the Chorus—The materials of Greek Tragedy derived from Mythology—
Comparison with the Plastic Arts.
LECTURE VI.
Progress of the Tragic Art among the Greeks—Various styles of Tragic Art
—Aeschylus—Connexion in a Trilogy of Aeschylus—His remaining Works.
LECTURE VII.
Life and Political Character of Sophocles—Character of his different
Tragedies.
LECTURE VIII.
Euripides—His Merits and Defects—Decline of Tragic Poetry through him.
LECTURE IX.
Comparison between the Choephorae of Aeschylus, the Electra of Sophocles, and that of Euripides.
LECTURE X.
Character of the remaining Works of Euripides—The Satirical Drama—
Alexandrian Tragic Poets.
LECTURE XI.
The Old Comedy proved to be completely a contrast to Tragedy—Parody—
Ideality of Comedy the reverse of that