Preface; 1. The Situation in 1700 2. Gottsched and the Regular Theatre 3. Theatre and Theory in the Age of Lessing 4. The Plays of Lessing’s Maturity 5. The Theatre of the ‘Seventies 6. The Literary Drama of the ‘Seventies, Storm and Stress, and Some Successors 7. The Young Schiller: The German Theatre of the ‘Eighties 8. The Early Blank Verse Dramas of Schiller and Goethe 9. The Weimar Court Theatre 10. Schiller’s Classical Plays and Goethe’s Faust, in Their Relation to the Theatre and the Public 11. Theatre, Drama and Public at the Death of Schiller; Appendix; Select Bibliography; Index of Plays; General Index
Biography
W. H. Bruford
