Description
Book SynopsisThe Hamburg Dramaturgy's collection of 104 short essays represents one of the eighteenth-century’s most important critical engagements with the theater and its potential to promote humanistic discourse. This is the first complete English translation of this text, with extensive annotations that place the work in its historical context.
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
A Note on the Original Author
Missions, Misunderstandings, and Mythologies: The Relationship between the Hamburg Dramaturgy and the Hamburg National Theater by Natalya Baldyga
"We have actors, but no art of acting": Performance Theory and Theatrical Emotion in the Hamburg Dramaturgy by Natalya Baldyga
The Legacy of the Hamburg Dramaturgy by Michael M. Chemers
Note on the Translation by Wendy Arons and Sara Figal
Volume I Essays
Volume II Essays
Paralipomena
Notes to essays 1–104
Notes to the Paralipomena
Works Cited
Subject index
Name index
Title index
