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<p>Affecting Grace examines the importance of Shakespeare's poetry and plays within German literature and thought after 1750 including its relationship to German classicism, which favoured unreflected ease over theatricality. Kenneth S. Calhoon examines this tension against an extensive backdrop that includes a number of canonical German authors Goethe, Schiller, Herder, Lessing, von Kleist, and Nietzsche as well as the advent of Meissen porcelain, the painting of Bernardo Bellotto and Fra
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- Author
- Kenneth Scott Calhoon; ProQuest (Firme)
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781442645998
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Drama, Literary Criticism
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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