Lessing's Emilia Galotti is a prime example of ‘bürgerliches trauerspiel’ apparently, an eighteenth century dramatic movement that was popular in England " where it became known as bourgeois tragedy " but that particularly flourished in Germany. This style of drama treated the rising middle-classes seriously for the first time, marking ordinary people as the focus of... Read more → The post Re…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:08PM on April 29, 2016