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A course of lectures on dramatic art and literature

August Wilhelm von Schlegel, John Black, Alexander James William Morrison · 1846 · Scanned text · Free in the US

216,899 words · about 15 h 11 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Authors
August Wilhelm von Schlegel, John Black, Alexander James William Morrison
Language
English
Published
1846
Length
216,899 words · about 15 h 11 min
Sections
6 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain in the United States

 

Contents (6)
  1. Front matter about 2 min
  2. Contents about 8 min
  3. Author's Preface about 4 h 29 min
  4. Appendix about 1 min
  5. Appendix To The Twelfth Lecture about 10 h 30 min
  6. Index about 2 min

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Front matter

F.P, BAGLEY,

BOHFS STANDARD LIBRARY.

SCHLEGEL'S DRAMATIC LITERATURE.

Contents

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LECTURE VIII.

Euripides — His Merits and Defects — Decline of Tragic Poetrythrough him Ill

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