The Origin of German Tragic Drama

Fresh and clean hardcover copy in good condition with original dustjacket. Frisches und sauberes Hardcover-Exemplar in gutem Zustand mit Original-Schutzumschlag. Contents - Introduction / George Steiner --Epistemo-Critical Prologue --The Concept of the treatise --Knowledge and truth --Philosophical beauty --Division and dispersal in the concept --Idea as configuration --The word as idea --Ideas non-classificatory --Burdach's nominalism --Verism, syncretism, induction --Croce and the artistic genres --Origin --Monadology --Neglect and misinterpretation of baroque tragedy --'Appreciation' --Baroque and expressionism --Pro domo --Trauerspiel and Tragedy --Baroque theory of the Trauerspiel --The insignificance of the influence of Aristotle --History as the content of the Trauerspiel --Theory of sovereignty --Byzantine sources --Herodian dramas --Indecisiveness --Tyrant as martyr, martyr as tyrant --Underestimation of the martyr-drama --Christian chronicle and Trauerspiel --Immanence of baroque drama --Play and reflection --Sovereign as creature --Honour --Destruction of the historical ethos --Setting --The courtier as saint and as intriguer --The didactic intention of the Trauerspiel --Volkelt's 'Aesthetics of the Tragic' --Nietzsche's 'Birth of Tragedy' --The tragic theory of German idealism --Tragedy and legend --Kingship and tragedy --'Tragedy' old and new --Tragic death as a framework --Tragic, forensic and Platonic dialogue --Mourning and tragedy --Sturm und Drang, Classicism --Haupt- und Staatsaktion, puppet play --The intriguer as comic character --The concept of fate in the fate-drama --Natural and tragic guilt -- The stage property. ISBN 9781859848999