Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 13 pages of analysis & critique of Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz.

Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 13 pages of analysis & critique of Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz.
This section contains 3,448 words
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SOURCE: McInnes, Edward. “Lenz and the Development of Dramatic Realism in the 19th Century.” In Lenz: Der Hofmeister, pp. 72-81. London: Grant & Cutler, 1992.

In the following essay, McInnes examines Lenz's influence on nineteenth-century theater.

Das Schicksal thront nicht mehr über und außer der Welt, das Schicksal ist nichts Anderes als die herrschende Weltlage selber von der jeder Einzelne abhängt; es sind die aus dieser Weltlage entspringenden Sitten, Begriffe und Zustände, die für den Einzelnen als Einzelnen durchaus undurchbrechbar und deshalb für ihn eine tragische Macht sind.

Herman Hettner, Das moderne Drama (1851)

Der Hofmeister had next to no impact on the contemporary theatre in Germany. On the very rare occasions on which it was performed it aroused very little public or critical interest. In 1778 Friedrich Ludwig Schröder, the director of the Hamburg theatre, who had already staged productions of Götz von Berlichingen...

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