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Am höchsten schätzt denn auch die naive Ästhetik das sogenannte Charakterdrama, in dem jede Figur recht kenntlich und abgesondert als Einheit auftritt. Nur von ferne erst und allmählich dämmert die Ahnung in Einzelnen, daß das vielleicht alles eine billige Oberflächenästhetik ist, daß wir irren, wenn wir auf unsre großen Dramatiker die herrlichen, uns aber nicht eingeborenen, sondern bloß aufgeschwatzten Schönheitsbegriffe der Antike anwenden, welche, überall vom sichtbaren Leibe ausgehend, recht eigentlich die Fiktion vom Ich, von der Person, erfunden hat.
Of all literature up to our days the drama has been the most highly prized by writers and critics, and rightly, since it offers (or might offer) the greatest possibilities of representing the ego as a manifold entity, but for the optical illusion which makes us believe that the characters of the play are one-fold entities by lodging each one in an undeniable body, singly, separately and once and for all. An artless esthetic criticism, then, keeps its highest praise for this so-called character-drama in which each character makes his appearance unmistakably as a separate and single entity. Only from afar and by degrees the suspicion dawns here and there that all this is perhaps a cheap and superficial esthetic philosophy, and that we make a mistake in attributing to our great dramatists those magnificent conceptions of beauty that come to us from antiquity.
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