Lessing and the Drama
Author | : Francis John Lamport |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Francis John Lamport |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Barbara Fischer |
Publisher | : Camden House |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781571132437 |
One of the most independent thinkers in German intellectual history, the Enlightenment author Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) contributed in decisive and lasting fashion to literature, philosophy, theology, criticism, and drama theory. Lessing invented the brgerliches Trauerspiel (bourgeois tragedy) and wrote one of the first successful German tragedies as well as one of the finest German comedies. In his final dramatic masterpiece, Nathan der Weise, he writes of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, of religious tolerance and intolerance and the clash of civilizations. Lessing's dramas are the oldest German theater pieces still regularly performed (both in Germany and internationally), and both his plays and his drama theory have influenced such writers as Goethe, Schiller, Hebbel, Hauptmann, Ibsen, Strindberg, Schnitzler, and Brecht. Addressing an audience ranging from graduate students to seasoned scholars, this volume introduces Lessing's life and times and places him within the broader context of the European Enlightenment. It discusses his pathbreaking dramas, his equally revolutionary theoretical, critical, and aesthetic writings, his original fables, his innovative work in philosophy and theology, and his significant contributions to Jewish emancipation. The volume concludes by examining 20th-century reception of Lessing and his oeuvre. Contributors: Barbara Fischer, Thomas C. Fox, Steven D. Martinson, Klaus L. Berghahn, John Pizer, Beate Allert, H. B. Nisbet, Arno Schilson, Willi Goetschel, Peter Hyng, Karin A. Wurst, Ann Schmiesing, Reinhart Meyer, Hans-Joachim Kertscher, Hinrich C. Seeba, Dieter Fratzke, Helmut Berthold, Herbert Rowland. Barbara Fischer is associateprofessor of German and Thomas C. Fox is professor of German, both at the University of Alabama.
Author | : Paul Philemon Kies |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : German drama |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gotthold Ephraim Lessing |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1878 |
Genre | : German drama |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John George Robertson |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 568 |
Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Graham Wolfe |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2019-06-10 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1000124363 |
This volume posits and explores an intermedial genre called theatre-fiction, understood in its broadest sense as referring to novels and stories that engage in concrete and sustained ways with theatre. Though theatre has made star appearances in dozens of literary fictions, including many by modern history’s most influential authors, no full-length study has dedicated itself specifically to theatre-fiction—in fact there has not even been a recognized name for the phenomenon. Focusing on Britain, where most of the world’s theatre-novels have been produced, and commencing in the late-nineteenth century, when theatre increasingly took on major roles in novels, Theatre-Fiction in Britain argues for the benefits of considering these works in relation to each other, to a history of development, and to the theatre of their time. New modes of intermedial analysis are modelled through close studies of Henry James, Somerset Maugham, Virginia Woolf, J. B. Priestley, Ngaio Marsh, Angela Carter, and Doris Lessing, all of whom were deeply involved in the theatre-world as playwrights, directors, reviewers, and theorists. Drawing as much on theatre scholarship as on literary theory, Theatre-Fiction in Britain presents theatre-fiction as one of the past century’s most vital means of exploring, reconsidering, and bringing forth theatre’s potentials.
Author | : Gotthold Ephraim Lessing |
Publisher | : New York : Dover Publications |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
The Hamburg Dramaturgy (German: Hamburgische Dramaturgie) is a highly influential work on drama by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, written between 1767 and 1769 when he worked as a dramaturg for Abel Seyler's Hamburg National Theatre. It was not originally conceived as a unified and systematical book, but rather as series of essays on the theater, which Lessing wrote as commentary on the plays of the short-lived Hamburg National Theater. This collection of 101 short essays represents one of the first sustained critical engagements with the potential of theater as a vehicle for the advancement of humanistic discourse. In many ways, the Hamburg Dramaturgy defined the new field of dramaturgy, and also introduced the term.
Author | : Gotthold Ephraim Lessing |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1991-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780826407061 |
Lessing was a playwright, scholar, poet, archeologist, philosopher, and critic. His genius is evident in the works collected in this volume, which includes the comedy Minna von Barnhelm, the tragedy Emilia, Galotti, Nathan the Wise, The Jews (and related correspondence), Ernst and Falk: Conversations for the Freemasons, and selections from philosophical and theological writings>