Lessings Emilia Galotti Classic Reprint

Author : Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265370308
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Lessings Emilia Galotti written by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lessings Emilia Galotti: Edited With an Introduction and Notes by Max Winkler Emllia galotti is, as regards its structure, the maturest dramatic production of Lessing. He worked upon it, off and ou, for fully fifteen years, carried it with him on all his travels, considered and reconsidered every detail, so that the drama in its final form is the product of his strongest critical and creative faculties. During these fifteen years he devoted his most serious study to the drama, and his vigorous and on the whole just attacks on the false dramatic principles then current in Germany, form one of the most heroic chapters in the literary his tory of that country. These attacks were not merely negative, but also established dramatic principles, most of which are as valid today as they were for Lessing's time. It is according to these principles, most fully expressed by Lessing in his $am burgifdx fibramaturgie, that we shall discuss and interpret his tragedy. He wrote it with the direct intention of giving to his nation a model drama, which was to exemplify in its general outlines as well as in its minutest details all the important dramatic laws for which he so zealously contended. It is his most carefully constructed work, and there is hardly a drama in the German language which requires such close attention to the smallest touches of the poet as Emilia Gialotti. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.