Cross-listed with GERS458D. Credit will be only granted for GERS689I or GERS458D. Introduces students to foundational dramatic theories and works of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that led to the establishment of a German national theater. Readings and discussions consider a variety of issues related to social class, race and ethnicity, and gender in works by Lessing, Schiller, Goethe, Kleist, and others. Taughtin German.