Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature

Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
August Wilhelm Schlegel, german poet, translator, critic, and a foremost leader of German Romanticism (1767-1845)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
-01- ABOUT THIS BOOK
-02- PREFACE OF THE TRANSLATOR
-03- AUTHOR'S PREFACE
-04- SPIRIT OF TRUE CRITICISM
-05- DEFINITION OF THE DRAMA
-06- ESSENCE OF TRAGEDY AND COMEDY
-07- STRUCTURE OF THE STAGE AMONG THE GREEKS
-08- ESSENCE OF THE GREEK TRAGEDIES
-09- PROGRESS OF THE TRAGIC ART AMONG THE GREEKS
-10- LIFE AND POLITICAL CHARACTER OF SOPHOCLES
-11- EURIPIDES
-12- COMPARISON BETWEEN AESCHYLUS, SOPHOCLES AND EURIPIDES
-13- CHARACTER OF THE REMAINING WORKS OF EURIPIDES
-14- THE OLD COMEDY PROVED TO BE COMPLETELY A CONTRAST TO TRAGEDY
-15- ARISTOPHANES
-16- MIDDLE COMEDY A DISTINCT SPECIE
-17- PLAUTUS AND TERENCE AS IMITATORS OF THE GREEKS
-18- ROMAN THEATRE
-19- PASTORAL DRAMAS OF TASSO AND GUARINI
-20- ANTIQUITIES OF THE FRENCH STAGE
-21- MISCHIEF RESULTING TO THE FRENCH STAGE
-22- USE AT FIRST MADE OF THE SPANISH THEATRE BY THE FRENCH
-23- VOLTAIRE
-24- FRENCH COMEDY
-25- COMPARISON OF THE ENGLISH AND SPANISH THEATRES
-26- IGNORANCE OR LEARNING OF SHAKSPEARE
-27- CRITICISMS ON SHAKSPEARE'S COMEDIES
-28- CRITICISMS ON SHAKSPEARE'S TRAGEDIES
-29- CRITICISMS ON SHAKSPEARE'S HISTORICAL DRAMAS
-30- TWO PERIODS OF THE ENGLISH THEATRE
-31- CLOSING OF THE STAGE BY THE PURITANS
-32- SPANISH THEATRE
-33- ORIGIN OF THE GERMAN THEATRE