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Lessing and the 'Sturm und Drang': A Reappraisal Revisited. By KAREN OTTEWELL. (Europaische Aufklarung in Literatur und Sprache, 14) Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang. 2002. 280 pp. 51.50 [euro]. ISBN 3-631-38784-9 (pbk).
Situated between the aesthetic polarities of Gottsched's Aristotelian conservatism and the unfettered dramaturgy of the Sturm und Drang, Lessing largely emancipated the German stage from neo-classical constraints and heralded an era in which his call for genius was emphatically answered. Although it is irrefutable that Lessing exerted a significant influence on the Sturmer und Dranger, the publication of Karen Ottewell's original and well-researched doctoral thesis reminds us of acknowledged relationships, often reciprocal, which have...
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