VII: From Alexandrines to Blank Verse: Heroic Tragedy in the Late 1750's

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. PREFACE VII
3. CONTENTS IX
4. Introduction XI
5. I: Tragedy in Cap and Bells 1
6. II: The First Original "Regular" Tragedies 20
7. III: The Original Tragedies in Gottsched's Schaubiihne 38
8. IV: Johann Elias Schlegel: The Pyrrhic Victory of Virtue 81
9. V: The High Tide of Alexandrine Tragedy: 1746-1754 106
10. VI: The First Middle-Class Tragedies 170
11. VII: From Alexandrines to Blank Verse: Heroic Tragedy in the Late 1750's 203
12. VIII: Christian Felix Weisse and the Attraction of Evil 232
13. IX: The Little Tragedies 279
14. X: Prose Tragedies 1760-1768 308
15. XI: The Twilight of Verse Tragedy 358
16. XII: Ugolino—A Culmination and a Beginning 378
17. Appendix A: Chronological List of Published Tragedies, 1729-1768 394
18. Appendix B: Brief Comments on Plays Not Included in the Main Text 399
19. Notes 407
20. Bibliography 447
21. Index of Names and Titles 455
22. Index of Subjects and Motifs 462