A course of lectures on dramatic art and literature . Massinger and other Contemporaries of Charles 1 446 LECTURE XXTIIL Closing of the Stage by the PuritansâRevival of the Stage underCharles II.âDepravity of Taste and MoraJsâDryden, Otway, andothersâCharacterization of the Comic Poets from Wycherley andCongreve to the ^Middle of the Eighteenth CenturyâTragedies ofthe same PeriodâRoweâAddisons CatoâLater PiecesâFamUiarTragedy: LiUoâGarrickâLatest State 475 LECTURE XXIX. Spanish TheatreâIts three Periods: Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Cal-deronâSpirit of the Spanish Poetry in generalâInfluence of th
A course of lectures on dramatic art and literature . Massinger and other Contemporaries of Charles 1 446 LECTURE XXTIIL Closing of the Stage by the PuritansâRevival of the Stage underCharles II.âDepravity of Taste and MoraJsâDryden, Otway, andothersâCharacterization of the Comic Poets from Wycherley andCongreve to the ^Middle of the Eighteenth CenturyâTragedies ofthe same PeriodâRoweâAddisons CatoâLater PiecesâFamUiarTragedy: LiUoâGarrickâLatest State 475 LECTURE XXIX. Spanish TheatreâIts three Periods: Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Cal-deronâSpirit of the Spanish Poetry in generalâInfluence of theKational History on itâForm, and various Species of the SpanishDramaâDecline since the beginning of the Eighteenth Century .... 488 LECTURE XXX. Origin of the German TlieatreâHans SachsâGryphiusâThe Age ofGottschedâWretched Imitation of the FrenchâLessing, Goethe,and SchillerâReview of their WorksâTheir Influence on Chival-rous Dramas, AfiFecting Drameis, and Family PicturesâProspectfor Futurity 506. PEEFACE OF THE TRANSLATOR. The Lectures of A. W. Schlegel on Dramatic Poetry Laveobtained high celebrity on the Continent, and been muchalluded to of late in several publications in this country. Theboldness of his attacks on rules which are considered as sacredby the French critics, and on works of which the Frenchnation in general have long been proud, called forth a morethan ordinary degree of indignation against his work inFrance. It was amusing enough to observe the hostility car-ried on against him in the Parisian Journals. The writers inthese Journals found it much easier to condemn M. SciilegeIithan to refute him: they allowed that what he said was veryingenious, and had a great appearance of truth; but still theysaid it was not truth. They never, however, as far as I couldobserve, thought proper to grapple with him, to point outanything unfounded in his premises, or illogical in the con-clusions which he drew from them; they generally confinedthems
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