Excerpt from Does Emilia Love the Prince? Goethe was the first to suggest that Emilia loves the Prince, although the drama had been a bone of contention for the critics ever since its appearance. But no sooner did Goethe point the way than a host of critics took up the hint and wrote elaborate articles and commentaries to prove Emilia's love for the Prince. Does it not seem strange, however, that this universally known tragedy of the great master of dramatic art should have had to wait nearly three-quarters of a century ...
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Excerpt from Does Emilia Love the Prince? Goethe was the first to suggest that Emilia loves the Prince, although the drama had been a bone of contention for the critics ever since its appearance. But no sooner did Goethe point the way than a host of critics took up the hint and wrote elaborate articles and commentaries to prove Emilia's love for the Prince. Does it not seem strange, however, that this universally known tragedy of the great master of dramatic art should have had to wait nearly three-quarters of a century for its right interpretation! And yet, Lessing was not one of those authors who believe in hiding anything from the reader. He says in the Forty-eighth Paper of his Hamburgische Dramaturgie: I by no means agree with most of the writers on dramatic art that the development of a play should be hidden from the spectator. I rather think that it would not be an overrating of my powers if I set myself to write a play whose development reveals itself in the very first scenes and whose most sustained interest arises from this very circumstance. For the spectator everything must be clear. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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