[282] Deschamps and Addison.
[283] _Richard III._; _Romeo and Juliet_.
[284] _Die Zwillinge_ (_The Twins_); _Die Soldaten_, &c.
[285] _Julius von Tarent._
[286] _Der Hofmeister_ (_The Governor_), &c.
[287] _Genoveva_, &c.
[288] Iffland's best play is _Die Jager_ (1785), which recently still
held the stage. From Mannheim he in 1796 passed to Berlin by desire
of King Frederick William II., who thus atoned for the hardships
which he had allowed the pietistic tyranny of his minister Wollner to
inflict upon the Prussian stage as a whole.
[289] _Die deutschen Kleinstadter_ is his most celebrated comedy and
_Menschenhass und Reue_ one of the most successful of his sentimental
dramas. According to one classification he wrote 163 plays with a
moral tendency, 5 with an immoral, and 48 doubtful.
[290] _Der Groosskophta_ (Cagliostro); _Der Burgergeneral_.
[291] A. W. von Schlegel and Tieck's (1797-1833).
[292] A. W. von Schlegel, _Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature_,
&c.
[293] _Zriny_, &c.
[294] _Ion._
[295] _Alarcos._
[296] _Kaiser Octavianus_; _Der gestiefelte Kater_ (_Puss in Boots_),
&c.
[297] _Der 24. Februar_ (produced on the Weimar stage with Goethe's
sanction).
[298] _Der 29. Februar_; _Die Schuld_ (_Guilt_).
[299] _Das Bild_ (_The Picture_); _Der Leuchtthurm_ (_The
Lighthouse_).
[300] _Die Ahnfrau_ (_The Ancestress_).
[301] _Das Kathchen_ (_Kate_) _von Heilbronn_.
[302] _Der zerbrochene Krug_ (_The Broken Pitcher_).
[303] _Prinz Friedrich von Homburg._
[304] _Sappho_, _Medea_, &c.
[305] _Konig Ottokar's Glück und Ende_ (_Fortune and Fall_); _Der
Bruderzwist_ (_Fraternal Feud_) _in Habsburg_.
[306] _Die verhangnissvolle Gabel_ (_The Fatal Fork_); _Der
romantische Oedipus_.
[307] _Die Nibelungen_; _Judith_, &c.
[308] _Der Erbforster._
[309] _Uriel Acosta_; _Der Königslieutenant._
[310] _Die Valentine._
[311] _Die Karlsschüler._
[312] _Der Pfarrer von Kirchfeld_; _Der Meineidbauer_; _Die
Kreuzelschreiber_; _Das vierte Gebot_.
[313] _The Robbers_ (Franz Moor). His next most famous part was Lear.
[314] In connexion with the production in 1855 of "F. Halm's"
_Fechter von Ravenna_, of which the authorship was claimed by a
half-demented schoolmaster.
[315] As to more recent developments of German theatrical literature
see the article GERMAN LITERATURE, and the remarks on the influence
of foreign works in the section on _Recent English Drama_ above.
[316] _Aluta_; _Asotus_; _Hecastus_, &c.
[317] _Gysbrecht van Aemstel_; _Lucifer_.
[318] _Ulysses of Ithaca._
[319] _The Politician-Tinman_; _Jean de France or Hans Franzen; The
Lying-In_, &c.
[320] _Aladdin_; _Corregio._
[321] _Maria Stuart_; _A Bankruptcy_; _Leonarda._
[322] _Brand_; _Peer Gynt._
[323] _Samfundets Stöttere_; _Et Dukkehjem_; _Gengangere._
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