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Excerpt from The Technique of Bridging Gaps in the Action of German Drama Since Gottsched, Vol. 1: Until the Death of Lessing; A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
The period examined begins about the end of the first quarter of the eighteenth century. The rising influence of Gottsched marks the gradual abandonment of the H capt und Staatsaktionen and the substitution of the dignified regular drama. Having no adequate German foundation to build upon, Gottsched borrowed ideas and models from the contemporary French drama, which meant at that time to a large extent Corneille. The stiff formality of the French regular drama was the Opposite extreme from the boisterous stage of previous years in Germany. Before this time it was impos sible to speak of regular drama in Germany. But now began a period of production, at first entirely under French influence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
