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A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature

By August Wilhelm von Schlegel, Alexander James William Morrison

Published by H:G: Bohn, 1846

Original from the University of Michigan

Digitized Jan 31, 2007

535 pages

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Prefaw of the Translator	1

Memoir of the Life of Augustus William Schlegel	7

LECTURE I	17

Definition of the DramaView of the Theatres of all NationsThe	30

Essence of Tragedy and ComedyEarnestness and SportHow	43

LECTURE IV	52

LECTURE V	66

LECTURE VI	78

Life and Political Character of SophoclesCharacter of his different	96

Euripides His Merits and Defects Decline of Tragic Poetry	111

LECTURE IX	122

LECTURE X	134

LECTURE XI	145

AristophanesHis Character as an ArtistDescription and Character	153

Whether the Middle Comedy was a distinct speciesOrigin of	174

LECTURE XIV	188

LECTURE XV	200

LECTURE XVI	213

Antiquities of the French StageInfluence of Aristotle and the Imi	232

Mischief resulting to the French Stage from too narrow Interpreta	253

LECTURE XIX	275

Edipe Merops Oreste	295

LECTURE XXI	304

LECTURE XXII	338

Ignorance or Learning of ShakspeareCostume as observed by Shak	354

LECTURE XXIV	379

Criticisms on Shakspeares Tragedies	400

CONTENTS	216

LECTURE XXVI	414

the first the most important	446

Closing of the Stage by the PuritansRevival of the Stage under	475

Cervantes Lope de Vega Cal	488

LECTURE XXX	506

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