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Encyclopedia entry: Gottsched, Johann Christoph
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Gottsched, Johann Christoph
(1700–66), German literary critic who tried to reform the German stage on the lines of the French classical theatre. He was helped by the actress Carolina
Neuber
, for whom he drew up a model repertory, later published in 1740–5, of adaptations of French plays, with a few German works ...
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Encyclopedia entry: Johann Christoph Gottsched
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;
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...Johann Christoph Gottsched , 1700-1766, German literary critic, disciple of the Enlightenment. As professor of poetry and philosophy at the ...
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