Individual and Societal Shortcomings in Eighteenth-Century German Comedy: A Reassessment
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Abstract
Abstract To what extent do comedies place the blame for vicious behaviour on the individuals who fail to comply with the norms of their society, or on the structures of society in which individuals act? The traditional understanding is that the moral-philosophical critique of individual behaviour in older comedy was supplanted by social criticism in newer comedy. This article revisits the history of comedy to emphasize the very gradual nature of this development and to shed light on the nuances in the distinction between the critique of individuals and the critique of social structures. The argument is developed through an exemplary analysis of four German-language plays from the eighteenth century: the comedies Die ungleiche Heirath (1743) by Luise Gottsched, Der geschäfftige Müssiggänger (1743) by Johann Elias Schlegel, and Die Soldaten (1776) by J. M. R. Lenz, as well as the farce Voltaire am Abend seiner Apotheose (1778) by Heinrich Leopold Wagner.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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