Drama Lexicon of the 18th Century

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Angelika Kauffmann's portrait of Lady Hamilton as Komische Muse (1791) serves as the cover image of the volume.

The Drama Lexicon of the 18th Century is a one-volume reference work published by C. H. Beck in 2001 with entries on 250 German-language plays, which come from 108 different authors and were printed between 1700 and 1800. It was edited by Heide Hollmer (* 1959) and Albert Meier (* 1952).

criteria

The compendium is intended to convey a picture of the wealth of drama of the 18th century, beyond the works of authors still known today such as Gottsched, Lessing, Goethe or Schiller. The collection has - with restrictions - canonical character : "The primary criterion for the selection is the representativeness of the work: either because of contemporary success or as evidence of a genre that was popular at the time or an original formal experiment" (Preface, pp. 5–6).

Each of the lexicon texts provides a table of contents on one or two pages as well as notes on interpretation and an evaluation.

Submarine

Among the 250 entries there is also a "U-Boot", a bogus lexicon article . It concerns a playwright named "(Friedwart) Konrad Kasimir Pfaiffenberger" and his alleged prose comedy Gottgetreu, or the prevented crime of 1787 (see pp. 236-237).

Overview of all 250 presented dramas

After the title, the years of the premiere (WP) and the first printing (ED) are given:

Anonymous (probably Sebastian Joseph Krause )

  • The rebellion. An Original Patriotic Play in Four Acts , ED 1791

Johann Friedrich Ernst Albrecht

  • Masaniello of Naples. Original tragedy in five acts , ED 1789

Sophie Albrecht

  • Theresgen. A play with singing, in five acts , ED 1781

Cornelius Hermann von Ayrenhoff

  • Aurelius or competition of magnanimity. A tragedy in five acts , UA 1766, ED 1766
  • The friendship of women according to the latest fashion. A comedy in two acts , UA 1782, ED 1782
  • Hermann's death. A tragedy in verse , UA 1768, ED 1769
  • Irene. A Christian tragedy in prose in three acts , UA 1781, ED 1781
  • The mail train or the noble passions. A comedy in two acts , UA 1769, ED 1769
  • Tumelicus, or the avenged Hermann. A tragedy with choirs , UA 1774, ED 1774
  • Virginia or The Abolished Decemvirate. A tragedy , WP 1790, ED 1790

Joseph Marius of Babo

  • The young lady well behaved. A comedy in three acts , ED 1783
  • Oda, the wife of two men. A tragedy , UA 1780, ED 1782
  • Otto von Wittelsbach, Count Palatine in Baiern. A patriotic tragedy in five acts , UA 1781, ED 1782
  • The winter quarters in America. An original comedy in one act , UA 1778, ED 1779

Nathanael Baumgarten

  • The dying Socrates. A tragedy , UA 1741, ED 1741

Georg Behrmann

  • The Horazier. A tragedy , UA 1751, ED 1751
  • Timoleon. The citizen friend. A tragedy , UA 1735, ED 1741

Dear God Benjamin Berger

  • Galora of Venice. A tragedy in five acts , ED 1778

Friedrich Justin Bertuch

  • Elfride. Tragedy in three acts , UA 1773, ED 1775

Maximilian Blaimhofer

  • The spiritual bride as a worldly bride. A comedy in five acts , ED 1784, UA 1793

Johann Jakob Bodmer

  • Arnold of Brescia in Rome; including remnants of its history , ED 1776
  • Friederich von Tokenburg. A tragedy , ED 1761
  • Odoardo Galotti, father of Emilia. A counterpart to Emilia. In one act , ED 1777
  • Timoleon of Corinth. A Political Tragedy , ED 1768
  • The Death of the First Man , ED 1776

Hinrich Borkenstein

  • The bookes bag. A comedy by Drey Aufzügen , WP 1741, ED 1742

Johann Christian Brandes

  • The Count of Olsbach, or the reward of righteousness. A comedy in five acts , WP 1768, ED 1768
  • Rachel, or the beautiful Jewess. Tragedy in three acts , ED 1790

Joachim Wilhelm von Brawe

  • Brutu. A tragedy in five acts , ED 1768, UA 1770
  • The Freygeist. A tragedy in five acts , ED 1758

Karl Theodor Breithaupt

  • The renegade. A Civil Tragedy in Five Acts , ED 1759

Johann Ludwig Ambühl

  • Wilhelm Tell, a Swiss national play , premiere 1792, ED 1792

Ernst Carl Ludwig Ysenburg from Buri

  • The Bastille. A tragedy in four acts , ED 1790
  • Ludwig Capet, or The Regicide. A Civil Tragedy in Four Acts , ED 1793

Friedrich Karl Kasimir von Creutz

  • Seneca. A tragedy , ED 1754

Johann Friedrich von Cronegk

  • Codrus. Tragedy in Five Acts , ED 1758
  • The suspicious one. A comedy in five acts , ED 1760, UA 1766
  • Olint and Sophronia. Fragment , ED 1760, UA 1767

Christoph Friedrich von Derschau

  • Pylades and Orestes or Denckmaal of friendship. A tragedy , ED 1747

Johann Jakob Dusch

  • The bankruptcy. A Civil Tragedy , ED 1763

Johann Gottfried Dyck

  • Carelessness and Seduction, or The Consequences of Gambling Addiction. A civil tragedy in five acts , ED 1784

Gustav Edinhard (= Anton Wilhelm Christian Fink )

  • The Pazzi Conspiracy in Florence. A tragedy in five acts , ED 1791

Marianne Ehrmann

  • Carelessness and a good heart, or following upbringing. Original play in 4 acts , ED 1786

Johann Jakob Engel

  • The noble boy. A comedy for children in one act , ED 1774
  • Oath and duty. A civil tragedy in five acts , UA 1798, ED 1803

Isaac Euchel

  • Reb Enoch or what am I doing with it? A family painting in three sections , ED 1846

Christian Fürchtegott Gellert

Otto Heinrich von Gemmingen-Hornberg

  • The inheritance. A play in three acts , ED 1779
  • The German householder or the family , UA 1780, ED 1780

Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg

Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim

  • The stupid shepherd. A comedy , WP 1744, ED 1745
  • Philotas. A tragedy , ED 1760

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter

  • The legacy sneaks. A comedy in five acts , WP 1788, ED 1789
  • Mariane. A civil tragedy in three acts , UA 1775, ED 1776
  • Merope. A tragedy in five acts , UA 1773, ED 1774

Johann Christoph Gottsched

  • Agis, king of Sparta. A tragedy , ED 1745, UA 1751 (?)
  • Atalanta or The Conquered Brittleness. A shepherd's game, in five acts , UA 1741, ED 1741
  • The Parisian blood wedding of King Henry of Navarre. A tragedy , ED 1745, UA 1746
  • Dying Cato. A tragedy , UA 1731, ED 1732

Luise Adelgunde Victorie Gottsched

Friedrich Melchior Grimm

  • Banise. A tragedy , ED 1743, UA 1745

Gustav Friedrich Grossmann

  • No more than six bowls. A family painting in five acts , UA 1779, ED 1780
  • Wilhelmine von Blondheim. A tragedy in three acts , ED 1775, UA 1778

Johann Gottfried Hagemeister

  • Brutus and His Sons , ED 1794
  • The count from Germany. A comedy in five acts , ED 1791
  • The death of Pausanias. A tragedy , ED 1795

Gerhard Anton von Halem

  • Wallenstein. A play , ED 1786

Aaron Halle-Wolfssohn

  • Carelessness and bigotry. A family painting in three parts , ED 1796

Johann Georg Heubel

  • The incidents of Telemach on the island of the goddess Calypso presented in a tragedy , ED 1740

Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel the Elder Ä.

  • The man after the clock, or the decent man. Comedy in One Act , ED 1765

Salomon Hirzel

  • Junius Brutus. A tragedy, in five acts , ED 1761

Friedrich Holderlin

Ludwig Ferdinand Huber

  • The secret court. A tragedy , WP 1790, ED 1790
  • Juliane. A comedy in three acts , ED 1791

Ludwig Friedrich Hudemann

  • Diocletianus the persecutor of Christians. A Tragedy , ED 1751

August Wilhelm Iffland

  • Figaro in Germany. A comedy in five acts , WP 1789 (?), ED 1790
  • The hunters. A rural moral painting in five acts , UA 1785, ED 1785
  • The cockades. A tragedy in five acts , UA 1791 (?), ED 1791
  • Crimes of obedience. A serious family painting in five acts , UA 1784, ED 1784

Catherine II, Empress of Russia

  • Drey comedies against enthusiasm and superstition ( The Deceiver , The Blinded One , The Siberian Shaman ), UA 1786, ED 1788

Anton von Klein

  • Emperor Rudolf of Habsburg. A tragedy in five acts , ED 1787

Ewald Christian von Kleist

  • Seneka. A tragedy , ED 1758

Ernst August Friedrich Klingemann

  • The mask. Tragedy in 4 Acts , UA 1797, ED 1797

Friedrich Maximilian Klinger

  • Damocles. A tragedy in five acts , ED 1790
  • Elfride. A tragedy , ED 1783
  • The suffering woman. A tragedy , ED 1775
  • The New Arria. A play , ED 1776
  • Prinz Seiden-Wurm the reformer or the crown-competent. A moral drama from the fifth part of Orpheus , ED 1780
  • Simsone Grisaldo. A play in five acts , ED 1776
  • Stilpo and his children. A tragedy in five acts , UA 1779, ED 1780
  • Storm and stress. A play , ED 1776, UA 1777 (?)
  • The Twins. A tragedy in five acts , UA 1776, ED 1776

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock

  • David. A tragedy , ED 1772
  • Hermann and the princes. A Bardiet for the Schaubühne , ED 1784
  • Hermann's battle. A Bardiet for the Schaubühne , ED 1769
  • Hermann's death. A Bardiet for the Schaubühne , ED 1787
  • Solomon. A tragedy , ED 1764
  • Adam's death. A tragedy , ED 1757, UA 1767

Johann Ulrich von König

  • The Dreßdner Frauen Schlendrian made in an aftermath , UA 1724/25, ED 1725
  • The wrong world. A comedy from an act , UA 1724/25, ED 1725

August von Kotzebue

  • Adelheid von Wulfingen. A monument to the barbarey of the thirteenth century , ED 1783
  • Brother Moritz, the eccentric, or the colony for the Pelew Islands. Comedy in three acts , WP 1790, ED 1791
  • The Indians in England. Comedy in three acts , WP 1789, ED 1790
  • La Peyrouse. A play in two acts , UA 1796 (?), ED 1798
  • Misanthropy and remorse. Play in five acts , UA 1788, ED 1790

Benjamin Ephraim Kruger

  • Mahomed IV. A Tragedy , ED 1744, UA 1747
  • Vitichab and Dankwart, the Alemannic brothers. A tragedy , UA 1746, ED 1746

Johann Christian Kruger

  • The blind husband. A comedy of three acts , UA 1747, ED 1751
  • The Candidates, or: The Means of Gaining Office. A comedy in five acts , WP 1748, ED 1748
  • The clergy in the country. A comedy in three acts , ED 1743
  • The devil, a bearskin. A comedy in an act in verse , UA 1748, ED 1748

August Lafontaine

  • Antonie or the monastery vow. A tragedy , ED 1789

Johann Anton Leisewitz

Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Karl Gotthelf Lessing

  • The mistress. A comedy in five acts , ED 1780, UA 1781

Johann Friedrich Löwen

  • Hermes and Nestan, or the oracle. A prosaic tragedy in two acts , ED 1765
  • The riddle, or what the woman likes most. A comedy in one act, with a divertissement , ED 1766

Christian Leberecht Martini

  • Rhynsolt and Sapphira. A prosaic tragedy in three trades , UA 1755, ED 1755
  • The Guardian , UA 1763, ED 1765

Heinrich Ferdinand Möller

  • The Count of Walltron, or the Subordination. An original tragedy in five acts , WP 1776, ED 1776

Karl Philipp Moritz

  • Blunt or the guest. Fragment , ED 1780 and 1781, UA 1986

Justus Möser

  • Arminius. A tragedy , ED 1749, UA 1750 (?)
  • Virtue on the stage; or: Harlequin Marriage. A sequel in one act , UA 1765 (?), ED 1798

Friedrich Müller

  • Faust's Life , ED 1778

Karl Müller von Friedberg

  • The saved Helvetia or Orgetorix. A state tragedy in five acts , ED 1779

Christlob Mylius

  • The doctors. A comedy in five acts , ED 1745

Anton Nagel

  • The civil riot in Landshut , ED 1782

Friederike Caroline Neuber

  • The shepherd festival or the joy of autumn. A German comedy in verse , WP 1753

Johann Samuel Patzke

  • Virginia. A tragedy , ED 1755

Joseph Bernhard Pelzel

  • Yariko. A tragedy in a plot , ED 1770, UA 1771

(Friedwart) Konrad Kasimir Pfaiffenberger

  • Faithful to God, or the Unthat prevented , ED 1787 (a submarine , see above)

Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel

  • The recluse. A Tragedy in Verse from an Elevator , ED 1761
  • The treasure. A shepherd's game , ED 1761

Johann Gottlob Benjamin Arrow

  • Lucie Woodvil. A civil tragedy in five acts , UA 1756, ED 1756

Picander (= Christian Friedrich Henrici )

  • The women trial or the infidelity of the married women presented in a spectacle play , ED 1725

Friedrich Lebegott Pitschel

  • Darius. A tragedy in five acts , ED 1741, UA 1751 (?)

Karl Martin Plümicke

  • Henriette, or the hussar robbery. A play in five acts , UA 1779, ED 1780
  • Lanassa. Tragedy in five acts , UA 1781, ED 1782

Theodor Johann Quistorp

  • Aurelius, or Monument of Tenderness. A tragedy , ED 1743, UA 1762
  • The goat in the process. A comedy of five acts , ED 1744
  • The hypochondrist. A German comedy. In five acts , ED 1745, UA 1747

Karl von Reitzenstein

  • The negro slaves. A tragedy in five acts , ED 1793

Christian Reuter

  • Graf Ehrenfried presented in a Lust-Spiele , UA 1700, ED 1700

Karl Franz Romanus

  • Crispin as father , UA 1756, ED 1761

Emanuel Schikaneder

  • Hanns Dollinger, or the secret blood dish. A play in 3 acts , UA 1788, ED 1792
  • Philippine Welserinn, the beautiful Duchess of Tyrol. A play in five acts , UA 1780, ED 1792

Friedrich Schiller

Johann Friedrich Schink

  • Adelstan and Roses. A Tragedy with Singing , ED 1776
  • Gianetta Montaldi. A tragedy in five acts , UA 1775, ED 1777

Johann Elias Schlegel

  • Canut. A tragedy in five acts , WP 1745 (?), ED 1746
  • Dido. A tragedy , ED 1744
  • The busy idler. A comedy , ED 1743
  • Herrmann. A tragedy , premiered before 1743, ED 1743
  • Lucretia. A prosaic tragedy , ED 1773
  • Orestes and Pylades. Tragedy in five acts , UA 1739, ED 1771
  • The silent beauty. A comedy in one act , ED 1747, UA 1754
  • The triumph of good women. A comedy in five acts , ED 1748
  • The Trojans. A tragedy , UA 1737, ED 1747

Christoph Otto von Schönaich

  • Mariamne and Herod. A tragedy , ED 1754
  • Thussnelde and Hermann. A tragedy , ED 1754

Friedrich Ludwig Schröder

  • The ring. A comedy in five acts , WP 1786 (?), ED 1786
  • The cousin in Lisbon. A Bourgeois Family Painting in Three Acts , ED 1786

Johann Gottlieb Schummel

  • The duel. A comedy in Drey Aufzügen , ED 1773, UA 1779

Friedrich Julius Heinrich von Soden

  • Ernst, Count von Gleichen, husband of two women. A play in five acts , ED 1791
  • Ignez de Castro. A tragedy , ED 1784

Joseph Valentin Edler von Speckner

  • Darius. A tragedy in one act , UA 1774, ED 1775

Christian Heinrich Spieß

  • Marie Stuart. A tragedy in five acts , UA 1784, ED 1784

Johann Heinrich Steffens

  • Clarissa. A civil tragedy, in three acts , UA 1765, ED 1765

Charlotte von Stein

  • Dido. A tragedy in five acts , ED 1867

Johann Gottlieb Stephanie the Elder J.

  • The deserter out of filial love. A comedy in three acts , WP 1773 (?), ED 1776

Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg

  • Timoleon. A tragedy with choirs , ED 1784

Helfrich Peter Sturz

  • Julie. A tragedy in five acts , UA 1767, ED 1767

Ludwig Tieck

Joseph August von Toerring

  • Agnes Bernauerinn. A Patriotic Tragedy , ED 1780, UA 1781
  • Kaspar Der Thöringer. A historical drama in five acts , ED 1785

Friedrich von der Trenck

  • Araxane. A fictional tragedy , WP 1754 (?), ED 1754

Adam Gottfried Uhlich

  • The Schlendrian, or the famous Boockesbag Death and Testament. A comedy of three acts , ED 1746
  • Ulysses or the husband who was thought dead but finally found happily again. A tragedy , premier around 1730, ED 1751

Johann Christoph Unzer

  • The new Emma. A comedy in three acts , ED 1782

Christian August Vulpius

  • The men of the republic. A comedy in two acts , ED 1788

Heinrich Leopold Wagner

Paul Weidmann

  • Johann Faust. An allegorical drama in five acts , WP 1775 or 1776, ED 1775
  • Mosthadem, or fanaticism. An original German tragedy in verse by five acts , ED 1772
  • Usanquei, or the patriots in Sina. An original German tragedy in verse by five acts , ED 1771

Christian way

  • A whimsical show game by the Dutch farmer, whom the famous Printz Philippus Bonus helped to a gallant dream , UA 1685, ED 1700

Christian Felix Weisse

  • Atreus and Thyest. A tragedy in five acts , ED 1766, UA 1767
  • The Liberation of Thebes. A tragedy in five acts , ED 1764
  • Fanaticism, or: Jean Calas. A historical drama in five acts , UA 1780, ED 1780
  • Mustapha and Zeangir. A tragedy in five acts , UA 1763, ED 1763
  • Fashionable poets. A comedy in three acts , WP 1751, ED 1756
  • Richard the Third. A tragedy in five acts , UA 1759, ED 1759
  • Romeo and Julie. A civil tragedy in five acts , UA 1767, ED 1768
  • Rosemunde. A tragedy in five acts , ED 1763, UA 1767

Christoph Martin Wieland

  • Clementia by Porretta. A drama drawn from Richardson's story by Sir Karl Grandison , ED 1760
  • Lady Johanna Gray. A Mourning Game , UA 1758, ED 1758
  • Pandora. A comedy in two acts , ED 1779

Caroline von Wolzüge

  • The leucadian rock. A play , ED 1792

Heinrich Zschokke

  • Abällino the big bandit. A tragedy in five acts , UA 1795, ED 1795
  • Charlotte Corday or the Calvados Rebellion. A Republican tragedy in four acts , ED 1794

output

  • Drama Lexicon of the 18th Century. Edited by Heide Hollmer and Albert Meier. With the collaboration of Lars Korten and Thorsten Kruse. C. H. Beck, Munich 2001. ISBN 3-406-47451-9 ( DNB dataset )

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the note in Der Umblätterer , May 25, 2011.