The Hamburg Dramaturgy by G.E. Lessing: A New and Complete Annotated English Translation

ISBN-13: 9781032094458 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 468 str.

Natalya Baldyga

Opis

The 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.<

Spis treści

Preface

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

O autorze

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–81) was a playwright, critic, and philosopher of the German Enlightenment. His plays include Miss Sara Sampson, Minna von Barnhelm, Emilia Galotti, and Nathan the Wise. In addition to the Hamburg Dramaturgy, Lessing is known for his masterpiece of aesthetic theory, Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry.

Wendy Arons is professor of drama at Carnegie Mellon University. She is the author of Performance and Femininity in Eighteenth-Century German Women's Writing: The Impossible Act (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) and co-editor, with Theresa J. May, of Readings in Performance and Ecology (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).

Sara Figal’s research centers on eighteenth-century German literature and history. She is the author of Heredity, Race, and the Birth of the Modern (Routledge, 2011 and 2008) and co-editor, with Mark Larrimore, of The German Invention of Race (SUNY Press, 2007 and 2006).

Natalya Baldyga’s research focuses on theater historiography, cultural identity, and the performing body in eighteenth-century Europe. Her published essays include "Sensate Cognition and Properly Feeling Bodies: G. E. Lessing, Acting Theory, and Emotional Regulation in Eighteenth-Century Germany" (Theatre Survey, 2017).