LITERATURE QUESTIONS
RESTORATION EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DRAMA
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Detailed explanation-1: -Sturm und Drang, (German: “Storm and Stress”), German literary movement of the late 18th century that exalted nature, feeling, and human individualism and sought to overthrow the Enlightenment cult of Rationalism.
Detailed explanation-2: -The phrase Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress) is the title of a wild and extravagant drama by Friedrich Klinger, first performed in 1776. Its mood is typical of a fashion among young writers in Germany during the 1770s. Critics have subsequently adopted the title as the ideal name for the entire school.
Detailed explanation-3: -Sturm und Drang – ‘Storm and Stress’. For many music-lovers the label evokes the tempestuous minor-keyed symphonies Haydn composed around 1770: the ‘Lamentatione’ (No. 26), incorporating Gregorian plainchant; the ‘Mourning’ (No. 44); ‘La passione’ (No. 49); and the ‘Farewell’ (No.
Detailed explanation-4: -Characteristics. The protagonist in a typical Sturm und Drang stage work, poem, or novel is driven to action-often violent action-not by pursuit of noble means nor by true motives, but by revenge and greed.