Goethe And the Romanticists in Their Attitude Towards Shakespeare
Goethe And the Romanticists in Their Attitude Towards Shakespeare
Schoch, Caroline P. B
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He thinks that an audience would not be satisfied with a mere reproduction off a story. The ver^ fact that "Romeo and Juliet" ever again lures an audienee goes to show that the "how" is more important than the "what". Of this art in Shakespeare, Schlegel says, "er hatte felnere, gelstigere Begriffe von der dramatlschen Kunst, als man gewohnllch ihm suzu«^ schrelben gcnelgt ist." (Werkc vol.7 p. 70). Briefly the theory of Shakespeare's method is stated thus: Shcdcespeare does not slavishly repro...duce the material at hand, but he breathes his own soul and llfw into it by eliminating much that is clumsy and useless for artistic effect, so that finally, his production bears the same relation to the raw material as the description of an object does to the object Itself. Besides this, Shakespeare intersperses many elements and incidents Digitized by VnOOQlC Digitized by Google . 20 . ivhlcb are of his om creation. This is espeoially true of the conical situ- ations. Finally, Shakespeare's conscious procedure for obtaining artistic form Schlegel expresses in the following passage: "Welche Piille und Leichtig* keit er gehabt, weiss man: konnte ihm sein Ueberfluss nicht das W&hlen und inordnen erschweren, wenn er das unermessliche Gebiet der Dichtung bloss nach Willkur durchwchwtifte?
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