Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by August Wilhelm Schlegel
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LECTURE VI.
Progress of the Tragic Art among the Greeks--Various styles of Tragic Art --Aeschylus--Connexion in a Trilogy of Aeschylus--His remaining Works. LECTURE VII. Life and Political Character of Sophocles--Character of his different Tragedies. LECTURE VIII. Euripides--His Merits and Defects--Decline of Tragic Poetry through him. LECTURE IX. Comparison between the _Choephorae_ of Aeschylus, the _Electra_ of Sophocles, and that of Euripides. LECTURE X. Character of the remaining Works of Euripides--The Satirical Drama-- Alexandrian Tragic Poets. LECTURE XI. The Old Comedy proved to be completely a contrast to Tragedy--Parody-- Ideality of Comedy the reverse of that of Tragedy--Mirthful Caprice-- Allegoric and Political Signification--The Chorus and its Parabases. |
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