Word: drama
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Lessing was perhaps the greatest critic that ever lived. His superiority was demonstrated in his judgment of Shakespeare, whom he understood far better than his English contemporary, Johnson. His literary reviews were fearless, and even his personal friends were not spared. He freed the German drama from its slavery to the French school, and showed how the French drama failed to conform not only to the German character, but to the fundamental principles of art. In the Laocoon he drew the distinction between painting and poetry, and made evident the great harm that had been done by the confusion...
...Boston Theatre the Bostonians entered on the first week of their presentation of the new drama "Don Quixote." This is the last week of their Boston engagement...
...November number of the Monthly which appears today contains two acts of Ibsen's play "The Lady of the Sea" translated by Mr. George R. Carpenter; the last two acts to be published in the December number. This is the first English translation of this much talked of social drama. Ibsen stands today for the protest against the complicated mechanical drama so much in vogue, in place of which he gives us plays deepening for their interest on the steady development of one strong and simple the me. His work and his theory have been the subject of sharp discussion...
...Siege of Syracuse, A poetical drama in five acts." By William A. Leahy. Published by D. Lothrop Company, Boston...
...poetical powers for so young a graduate in his publication "The Siege of Syracuse." He has clothed his ideas with varied and appropriate images, never becoming monotonous, prosaic, nor strained. His fine appreciation of the beauties of nature is perhaps the most marked feature of the book. As a drama it is not wholly successful, for though full of action and well sustained, it lacks plot and development of character. The historical incidents of the Siege of Syracuse are introduced, but have little real influence on the main theme, the love of Lucius and Adelia, As a poem...