homet_; _Edward III._; _Hamlet_; _Romeo and Juliet_, &c.

[278] _The Tempest_ (Ayrer, _Comedia v. d. schonen Sidea_).

[279] _Herr Peter Squenz_ (_Pyramus and Thisbe_);
_Horribilicribrifax_ (Pistol?).

[280] His son, Christian Gryphius, was author of a curious dramatic
summary (or _revue_) of German history, both literary and political;
but the title of this school-drama is far too long for quotation.

[281] One of his _aliases_ was _Pickelharnig_. In 1702 the electress
Sophia is found requesting Leibniz to see whether a more satisfactory
specimen of this class cannot be procured from Berlin than is at
present to be found at Hanover.

[282] Deschamps and Addison.

[283] _Richard III._; _Romeo and Juliet_.

[284] _Die Zwillinge_ (_The Twins_); _Die Soldaten_, &c.

[285] _Julius von Tarent._

[286] _Der Hofmeister_ (_The Governor_), &c.

[287] _Genoveva_, &c.

[288] Iffland's best play is _Die Jager_ (1785), which recently still
held the stage. From Mannheim he in 1796 passed to Berlin by desire
of King Frederick William II., who thus atoned for the hardships
which he had allowed the pietistic tyranny of his minister Wollner to
inflict upon the Prussian stage as a whole.

[289] _Die deutschen Kleinstadter_ is his most celebrated comedy and
_Menschenhass und Reue_ one of the most successful of his sentimental
dramas. According to one classification he wrote 163 plays with a
moral tendency, 5 with an immoral, and 48 doubtful.

[290] _Der Groosskophta_ (Cagliostro); _Der Burgergeneral_.

[291] A. W. von Schlegel and Tieck's (1797-1833).

[292] A. W. von Schlegel, _Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature_,
&c.

[293] _Zriny_, &c.

[294] _Ion._

[295] _Alarcos._

[296] _Kaiser Octavianus_; _Der gestiefelte Kater_ (_Puss in Boots_),
&c.

[297] _Der 24. Februar_ (produced on the Weimar stage with Goethe's
sanction).

[298] _Der 29. Februar_; _Die Schuld_ (_Guilt_).

[299] _Das Bild_ (_The Picture_); _Der Leuchtthurm_ (_The
Lighthouse_).

[300] _Die Ahnfrau_ (_The Ancestress_).

[301] _Das Kathchen_ (_Kate_) _von Heilbronn_.

[302] _Der zerbrochene Krug_ (_The Broken Pitcher_).

[303] _Prinz Friedrich von Homburg._

[304] _Sappho_, _Medea_, &c.

[305] _Konig Ottokar's Gluck und Ende_ (_Fortune and Fall_); _Der
Bruderzwist_ (_Fraternal Feud_) _in Habsburg_.

[306] _