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Plato as Dramatist

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2022

Barnard Hewitt
Translated by
Bayard Q. Morgan
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Tulane Drama Review , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , Fall 1962 , pp. 188 - 190
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Copyright © 1962 The Tulane Drama Review

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Translator's Notes

Printed with permission from Verlag Kiepenheuer &: Witsch (Köln, Berlin) and from the Georg Kaiser Archives, Berlin.

1 Suggested meaning: when the dramatist puts his dramatic frame around a given content, will not some of it escape?

2 The German word Erscheinung as used in this context implies what appears on the stage.

3 I am not sure of the meaning. Possibly this: when the dramatist has witnessed his work in performance, minor imperfections no longer crush him.

4 Two possibilities: a) Plato's drama bears out the preceding statement; b) Plato's is the kind of drama which bears testimony.

5 I think that he means the sight of the encounter of two such opponents.

6 Suggested meaning: in Plato's mind the picture preceded the idea of the dialogue.

7 The critic Diebold refers to Kaiser's plays in general as “Denkspiele“ and calls their author a “Denkspieler.”