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This historical and critical survey of the great tradition of German drama in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, provides an introduction to the major authors and works from Lessing.
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This historical and critical survey of German drama in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries provides an introduction to major authors and works from Lessing, through Goethe, Schiller and Weimar Classicism, to Kleist, Grillparzer and Hebbel.
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This is a historical and critical survey of the great tradition of German drama in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It provides an introduction to the major authors and works from Lessing, through Goethe, Schiller and Weimar classicism, to Kleist, Grillparzer and Hebbel.
Review Quotes
1. '... an excellent introduction'. The German Quarterly
2. 'A comprehensive and lucidly-written guide ... With its careful mix of historical survey and analyses of individual works, this is a most valuable introduction for the student of the period covered, and should also be required reading for those who prefer to study more modern dramatic literature.' Forum for Modern Language Studies
3. ..."an excellent introduction." The German Quarterly
4. ..."skillfully interweaves literary and theatre history, reception, and formal analysis in a manner which is at once erudite and insightful." Essays in Theatre
5. ..."the book appears to be of interest not primarily to the specialist student, but rather to the theatergoer who would like to broaden his acquaintance with leading German dramatists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries." Lessing Yearbook XXIII
6. ..."a judicious, solidly grounded history of the German drama in the years just prior to the Storm and Stress period and up to the creation of a newly unified Germany....provides not only a balanced, interesting introduction to a highly significant segment of European literature but also a concise commentary on recent critical analysis of the works in question." Choice
7. .,."an excellent introduction." The German Quarterly
8. .,."skillfully interweaves literary and theatre history, reception, and formal analysis in a manner which is at once erudite and insightful." Essays in Theatre
9. .,."the book appears to be of interest not primarily to the specialist student, but rather to the theatergoer who would like to broaden his acquaintance with leading German dramatists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries." Lessing Yearbook XXIII
10. .,."a judicious, solidly grounded history of the German drama in the years just prior to the Storm and Stress period and up to the creation of a newly unified Germany....provides not only a balanced, interesting introduction to a highly significant segment of European literature but also a concise commentary on recent critical analysis of the works in question." Choice
11. ."..skillfully interweaves literary and theatre history, reception, and formal analysis in a manner which is at once erudite and insightful." Essays in Theatre
12. ."..the book appears to be of interest not primarily to the specialist student, but rather to the theatergoer who would like to broaden his acquaintance with leading German dramatists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries." Lessing Yearbook XXIII
13. ."..a judicious, solidly grounded history of the German drama in the years just prior to the Storm and Stress period and up to the creation of a newly unified Germany....provides not only a balanced, interesting introduction to a highly significant segment of European literature but also a concise commentary on recent critical analysis of the works in question." Choice
14. ."..an excellent introduction." The German Quarterly
15. "Lamport makes his well-written, engaging, and insightful study additionally accessible to specialist and non-specialist alike by giving all primary quotations in German and English translation, by providing a carefully assembled bibliography that pays particular attention to recent Anglo-American criticism, and by at times going out of his way to enlighten the neophyte....Lamport's is presently the only English literary-historical critical survey devoted exclusively to German drama of the classical era." Stephen R. Huff, Comparative Drama -x x
16. ..".skillfully interweaves literary and theatre history, reception, and formal analysis in a manner which is at once erudite and insightful." Essays in Theatre
17. ..".the book appears to be of interest not primarily to the specialist student, but rather to the theatergoer who would like to broaden his acquaintance with leading German dramatists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries." Lessing Yearbook XXIII
18. ..".a judicious, solidly grounded history of the German drama in the years just prior to the Storm and Stress period and up to the creation of a newly unified Germany....provides not only a balanced, interesting introduction to a highly significant segment of European literature but also a concise commentary on recent critical analysis of the works in question." Choice
19. ..".an excellent introduction." The German Quarterly
