Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature - Softcover

Inhaltsangabe

What makes a great play transcend time? In "Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature", August Wilhelm von Schlegel—one of the founding voices of German Romanticism—unfolds a sweeping and masterful vision of theatre as the highest form of poetic expression. Delivered with eloquence, insight, and historical depth, these lectures are an essential gateway into the aesthetics, philosophy, and evolution of drama from the ancient Greeks to the modern stage. Schlegel’s penetrating analysis spans Sophocles to Shakespeare, Calderón to Goethe, highlighting the cultural and moral underpinnings of dramatic form across civilizations. With reverence for the classics and bold Romantic critique, he explores tragedy and comedy, unity of action, the sublime and the grotesque, and the tension between poetic ideal and theatrical performance. Both scholarly and passionate, this landmark work is more than an academic treatise—it is a manifesto for the enduring power of dramatic literature to reflect, challenge, and elevate the human condition. For lovers of theatre, literature, and intellectual history, Schlegel’s lectures remain an unparalleled foundation in the study of drama’s soul.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.