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