Word: galotti
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGES. 1. The origin of the Medieval French Epic. 2. Is Goethe's Egmont a better work, regarded as a drama, then Lessing's Emilia Galotti? 3. Ought a well established phonetic law to be regarded as admitting no real exceptions? 4. Is it possible to determine with some certainty Old French pronunciation? And if so, was it essentially different from the modern pronunciation? 5. Is the influence of Goethe's Faust for good or for evil? 6. A study of Lessings influence upon German Literature...
Prof. Wheeler delivered a remarkably interesting lecture on "Emili a Galotti" to German 3 yesterday...
...second, instead of being difficult, Oberon ought to be easier for students than Emilia Galotti, which we have just finished...
...professor in German VI., after completing the very interesting tragedy, Emilia Galotti, by Lessing, expects to take up Wieland's Oberon. The selection seems a poor one and cannot interest the students. Wieland's works cannot be compared with those of Lessing, Goethe, and Schiller. Goethe's Faust was read in this course last year and proved to be uninteresting and too hard for the students; why take up Wieland's Oberon, a work even harder to understand? Why make the student read works containing forms no longer in use, when he is not familiar with modern forms of speech...