Abstract:again toward the close. The catastrophe is not motivated, and the drama is not an organic whole.Space will not permit a detailed account of Lessing's criticism, but in the main it is as follows: Lessing says that in the Kinstlerdrama everything must be founded on psychologic necessity. If Grillparzer wanted to portray the conflict between art and life, he should have made Sappho herself responsible for the separation from Phaon. There is no place for accident or whim in a drama of this kind. Grillparzer, says … Show more
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