Goethe, from "Conversations" (1823-1832)
Translated by John Oxenford
Contents
Introduction
Introduction
What the German Dramatists Offer the French
Excerpts from Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret (1823–1832)
Wednesday, November 24
On Lord Byron, the Unities, and Houwald
1825
The Playwright Should Know the Stage
1825, Wednesday, April 20
Shakespeare and Moliere
Sunday, May 1 1825
Calderon and Moliere
Thursday, May 12 1825
On Macbeth and Troilus and Cressida
On Girls Going to the Theatre; On Young German Playwrights
1826
Sunday Evening, January 29
Calderon and Shakespeare
On the Subject Matter for Plays (Ancients and Moderns Contrasted)
Wednesday, January 31,1827
On Tone and the "Law of Required Change"
On Lessing
Wednesday, February 7, 1827
On Sophocles
(Sup.). Wednesday, March 21, 1827
On the Eloquence of Sophocles' Characters
Further Remarks About Sophocles
Moliere
Schlegel and Moliere
On Euripides
On Sophocles' Antigone, and the Moral Element
Dramatic Poets in General
On Shakespeare Having the Stage in View
Glossary
Glossary
Artistic Director
Choral Speech
Chorus
Comédie Française
Comedy
Director
Dramaturgy
Epic Drama
Mise en Scène
Neoclassical Dramaturgy
Neoclassicism
New Comedy
Old Comedy
Romanticism
Satire
Scenography
Sturm und Drang
Tragedy
Unities [of action, time and place]
Weimar Classicism
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