Social Forces in German Literature a Study in the History of Civilization
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What Lessing was battling against was not so much the French drama, as the spirit of despotic conven- tionalism and false propriety which during the last hundred years had been the ruling taste in England no less than in France or Germany. And what he wg,s contending for was not so much a correct view of the Greek theory of tragedy, as the spirit of true humanity and sound nature which had made Sophocles and Shakspere possible, and for the pro- pagation of which the best men in the last hundred... years in France no less than in Germany or England had been struggling.
Only by thus detaching from the Hamburgische Drama- turgie what is merely national, and by directing our chief attention upon its universally human features, are we enabled to see what it really was : a part the movement of the universal eighteenth-century movement for popular for popular emancipation. emancipation, This is the meaning of the attack against the ' three unities ' and their hollow tyranny which had reduced the average drama of the time to a mere puppet-show." This is the meaning of the attempt, in consonance with the true teaching of Aristotle, to establish the natural laws of tragic poetry as a representation of human character and fate, calling forth a violent discharge of the emotions, and by this very process purifying them." This is the meaning of the constant appeal to the greatness of the Greek drama and of Shakspere in contrast with the pettiness and in- significance of modern productions." " It is well known how much in earnest the Greek and Roman peoples were with their theatre; especially the Greeks, with tragedy.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
What Lessing was battling against was not so much the French drama, as the spirit of despotic conven- tionalism and false propriety which during the last hundred years had been the ruling taste in England no less than in France or Germany. And what he wg,s contending for was not so much a correct view of the Greek theory of tragedy, as the spirit of true humanity and sound nature which had made Sophocles and Shakspere possible, and for the pro- pagation of which the best men in the last hundred... years in France no less than in Germany or England had been struggling.
Only by thus detaching from the Hamburgische Drama- turgie what is merely national, and by directing our chief attention upon its universally human features, are we enabled to see what it really was : a part the movement of the universal eighteenth-century movement for popular for popular emancipation. emancipation, This is the meaning of the attack against the ' three unities ' and their hollow tyranny which had reduced the average drama of the time to a mere puppet-show." This is the meaning of the attempt, in consonance with the true teaching of Aristotle, to establish the natural laws of tragic poetry as a representation of human character and fate, calling forth a violent discharge of the emotions, and by this very process purifying them." This is the meaning of the constant appeal to the greatness of the Greek drama and of Shakspere in contrast with the pettiness and in- significance of modern productions." " It is well known how much in earnest the Greek and Roman peoples were with their theatre; especially the Greeks, with tragedy.
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