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- Title
‘What do I See?’ The Order of Looking in Lessing's Emilia Galotti.
- Authors
Röttger, Kati
- Abstract
Lessing's Emilia Galotti (1768-72) is considered a model for the German dramaturgy of the late eighteenth century. But the play has to he seen as a performative answer to Lessing's treatise on the aesthetic differences between painting and poetics Loocoön (1766).The article examines how far the borders between picture (painting) and word (poetry) that Lessing discusses in Laocoön are questioned by the aesthetic effects of the acting body in Emilia Galotti. The discussion considers how far the play can be seen as a late statement by Lessing on the question of the differences between the arts he raised in Loocoön.
- Subjects
LESSING, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781; DRAMATIC structure; EMILIA Galotti (Theatrical production); LOOCOON (Book); 18TH century drama; PHILOSOPHY of theater
- Publication
Art History, 2010, Vol 33, Issue 2, p378
- ISSN
0141-6790
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8365.2010.00750.x