Un malinconico nella commedia gottschediana. «Der Hypochondrist» di Theodor Johann Quistorp
[A melancholic in Gottsched’s anthology of comedy. Theodor Johann Quistorp’s «The hypochondriac»]
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https://doi.org/10.54103/1593-2478/18975Abstract
Theodor Johann Quistorp was among the regular contributors to Gottsched’s Deutsche Schaubühne (1741-1745). In addition to his published works as a playwright, he tried his hand at writing non-fiction, taking a stand against Baumgarten’s theories, and engaging in a heated debate with Georg Friedrich Meier. Quistorp’s comedies are actually based on a conception of the comic effect that is far removed from Gottschedian rationalism. In his Hypochondrist (1745), melancholy and depression are not represented as evil and morally deviant, but as a physiological expression of human nature, which is to be linked to all other aspects of individual identity.
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