The Attitude Of Goethe And Schiller Toward French Classic Drama Classic Reprint

Author : Paul Emerson Titsworth
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781528167260
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (672 download)

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Download or read book The Attitude of Goethe and Schiller Toward French Classic Drama (Classic Reprint) written by Paul Emerson Titsworth and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Attitude of Goethe and Schiller Toward French Classic Drama Goethe's attitude toward the French classic drama is, at bottom, his attitude toward various kinds of art in general. Pseudo-classicist, realist, classicist, and romanticist as he was in turn, it is natural to expect in his development a varying appreciation of the drama of the classic period of French literature. The following periods, differing widely from each other as regards his estimate of the dramatic productions of this age, stand out in his life. (a) the frankfurt-leipzig period, 1759-1770; this was a time when French influence most dominated Goethe: (b) the Storm and Stress period, 1770-1775, which began with his residence in Strassburg and acquaintance with Herder, and in which he protested vigor ously against hampering limitations of form (0) the period of silence, 1775-1799, which had no definite boundaries, for it grew gradually out of period (b) and shaded into period (d). This period marked a decided allegiance to classic Greek ideals but in it Goethe did not express any direct, im portant criticism of the classic art of the French. (d) The period of truest appreciation of French classic drama, 1799 1832. This period opened in the midst of Goethe's activity as director of the Weimar stage where he was endeavoring to institute a reform of the German theater. 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.