{"id":245,"date":"2006-08-27T18:51:37","date_gmt":"2006-08-27T23:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.3\/~drweevil\/?p=245"},"modified":"2007-09-03T17:41:52","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T21:41:52","slug":"frederick-the-great-on-shakespeare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=245","title":{"rendered":"Frederick the Great on Shakespeare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is Richard Stoneman&#8217;s paraphrase of a German source:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Frederick the Great . . . has strong views as to how these improvements to the German language shall be effected. For a start, something has to be done to prevent the further corruption of German taste by the appalling plays (<em>die abscheulichen St&uuml;cke<\/em>) of Shakespeare, which have already been translated into German. Not only do these plays not observe the unities, but they allow the mixing of classes on stage: kings and gravediggers may appear in conversation! Frederick&#8217;s second recommendation is the imposition of a national or core curriculum on all professors and philosophers: &#8216;In my view, one should prescribe to every professor precisely the rules which he is to follow in his lectures.&#8217; He proceeds to do so; the rules include the detail that the professor must denigrate the philosophy of Epicurus, defend Galileo, and say nothing at all about Locke.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(Richard Stoneman, &#8220;&#8216;A Crazy Enterprise&#8217;: German Translators of Sophocles, from Opitz to Boeckh&#8221;, Chapter 13 (pages 307-29) of <em>Sophocles Revisited, Essays presented to Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones<\/em>, edited by Jasper Griffin, Oxford, 1999, at 310. Stoneman&#8217;s footnote on the royal quotation refers to page 81 of H. Steinmetz (ed.), <em>Friedrich II, K&ouml;nig von Preussen, und die deutsche Literatur des 18. Jahrhunderts: Texte und Dokumente<\/em>, Stuttgart, 1985.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Richard Stoneman&#8217;s paraphrase of a German source: Frederick the Great . . . has strong views as to how these improvements to the German language shall be effected. For a start, something has to be done to prevent the further corruption of German taste by the appalling plays (die abscheulichen St&uuml;cke) of Shakespeare, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}