ISBN: 9780217425209

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not … More...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 edition. Excerpt: ... LECTURE II. Theatrical effect -- Importance of the stage. Principal species of the drama -- Essence of tragedy and comedy -- Seriousness and mirth -- How far it is possible to become acquainted with the ancients without knowing the original languages -- Winkelmann. '' After this rapid view of what may be called the map of dramatic literature, we return to the examination of the principal idea. We have already shown that the supposition of a visible j. representation is essential to the dramatic form; and a dramatic work can therefore be considered in a double point of view, how far it is poetical, and how far it is theatrical. The two are by no means inseparable. I do not mean the poetical expression: I am not now considering the versification and the ornaments of language, though without a higher merit these are the least essential parts of theatrical works, but the poetry in the spirit and plan of a piece; and this may exist in a high degree, when it is even written in prose. How does a drama become poetical? Most N- assuredly in the very same way as works in other branches become so. It must in the first place be a connected whole, and complete within itself. But this is merely the negative condition of the form of a work of art, by which it is distinguished , from the phenomena of nature, which flow into one another, and do not possess an independent existence. To be poetical it is N necessary that it should be a mirror of ideas, that is, thoughts and feelings in their character necessary and eternally true, which soar above this earthly life, and that it should exhibit them em- f bodied before us. The ideas which in this view are essential to the different departments of the drama will hereafter be the object of our... August Wilhelm Von Schlegel, Books, Entertainment, A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature Books>Entertainment, General Books LLC<

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A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature Author :August Wilhelm Von-schlegel 9780217425209 0217425208

ISBN: 9780217425209

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