Emilia Galotti
Subtitle: ein trauerspiel in fünf aufzügen
By: von Gotthold Ephraim Lessing; with introduction and explanatory notes by Max Poll ...
Contributors: Poll, Max.
Series: International modern language series
Publisher: Ginn & company
Published: 1898
Place of publication: Boston
Language: ger
Number of pages: 131
Description: Inasmuch as Emilia Galotti belongs to that class of tragedy in which the hero is driven to decisive action not by his own passions, but by those of other persons, it is necessary that the play should open with the persons of secondary importance. Hence it is the Prince and Marinelli with whose characters the poet has to make us acquainted and whose motives for plotting against Emilia he must reveal to us.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [xlii]-xivi.