Dramas Sentence Examples

The romantic character of the history of this family has been the subject of poems, dramas and novels.

There is little doubt that some redundant narratives in the Ring were of earlier conception than the four complete dramas, and that their survival is due partly to Wagner's natural affection for work on which he had spent pains, and partly to a dim notion that (like Browning's method in The Ring and the Book) they might serve to reveal the story afresh in the light of each character.

A repeated perusal of this drama suggests the judgment that it is overpraised when ranked at no great distance from Shakespeare's national dramas.

The heroes and heroines of the Trojan cycle, such as Achilles, Ajax, Telamon, Cassandra, Andromache, were prominent figures in some of the dramas adapted from the Greek.

Af ter the death of Holberg, the affectation of Gallicism had reappeared in Denmark; and the tragedies of Voltaire, with their stilted rhetoric, were the most popular dramas of the day.

Action movies can be very diverse, ranging from science fiction movies to action-packed dramas.

Szujski commenced his literary career in 1859 with poems and dramas; in 1860 appeared his first historical production, Rzut oka na Historye Polski (" A Glance at Polish History ."), which attracted universal attention; and in 1862 he commenced the publication in parts of his work Dzieje Polski (" The History of Poland"), the printing of which ceased in 1866.

Their confradias, or brotherhoods, each with its patron saint and male and female chiefs, exist largely to organize public festivals, and to purchase wooden masks, costumes and decorations for the dances and dramas in which the Indians delight.

In the case of dramas, different acting editions will give rise to them.

The young poet wooed the girl with poems, romances, dramas and mute worship, but received nothing except chilling indifference and lively ridicule.

One or two were original dramas, of the class called praetextae, i.e.

Hartmann, set the dramas of Ewald and others, and thus the Danish school of music originated.

Drachmann produced with very great success several romantic dramas founded on the national legends.

Tragedies in the style of Seneca, rivalling Italian and French dramas of the epoch, were produced.

These dramas' are not particularly well arranged, but they form a little body of theatrical literature of singular interest and value.

One of his prose dramas, Siri Brahe och Johan Gyllenstjerna, held the stage for many years.

His singular dramas, The Bacchantes (1822), Sigurd Ring, which was posthumous, and The Martyrs (1821), are esteemed by many critics to be his most original productions.

His most striking work was Judas (1886); he has written some excellent dramas.

These dramas, which deal with religious and historical subjects, are of Indian origin, and somewhat resemble the mystery-plays of medieval Europe, a resemblance heightened by the introduction, due to Spanish missionaries, of Christian saints and heroes such asCharlemagne.

Klopstock and other poets have used his exploits as material for dramas.

Life was filled with the universal Hellenic interests, which centred in the gymnasium and the religious festivals, these last including, of course, not only athletic contests but performances of the classical dramas or later imitations of them.

Livius Andronicus, laid the foundation of a new Latin literature by his translation of the Odyssey, and that the Greek dramas were recast in a Latin mould.

He possessed, however, a strong and fluent genius, which eventually made itself heard in a multitude of volumes, poems, dramas and novels.

His mythological or pastoral dramas, his great satiric epos of Adam Homo (1841-1848), his comedies, his lyrics, and above all his noble philosophic tragedy of Kalanus, prove the immense breadth of his compass, and the inexhaustible riches of his imagination.

The two poets had first met in 1788, but at that time Goethe, fresh from Italy, felt little inclination towards the author of the turbulent dramas Die Rduber, Kabale and Liebe and Don Carlos.

The plan of Wallenstein was of long standing, and it was only towards the end, when Schiller realized the impossibility of saying all he had to say within five acts, that he decided to divide it into three parts, a descriptive prologue, Wallensteins Lager, and the two dramas Die Piccolomini and Wallensteins Tod.

The exuberance of the young poet's genius is also to be seen in the many unfinished fragments of this period; at one time we find him occupied with dramas on Caesar and Mahomet, at another with an epic on Der ewige Jude, and again with a tragedy on Prometheus, of which a magnificent fragment has passed into his works.

The French Revolution, in which all Europe was engrossed, was in Goethe's eyes only another proof that the passing of the old regime meant the abrogation of all law and order, and he gave voice to his antagonism to the new democratic principles in the dramas Der Grosskophta (1792), Der Burgergeneral (1793), and in the unfinished fragments Die Aufgeregten and Das Miidchen von Oberkirch.

Goethe's classic principles, when applied to the swift, direct art of the theatre, were doomed to failure, and Die natiirliche Tochter, notwithstanding its good theoretic intention, remains the most lifeless and shadowy of all his dramas.

Goethe's dramas, on the other hand, have not, in the eyes of his nation, succeeded in holding their own beside Schiller's; but the reason is rather because Goethe, from what might be called a wilful obstinacy, refused to be bound by the conventions of the theatre, than because he was deficient in the cunning of the dramatist.

He also wrote A Political Life of Sir Robert Peel (London, 1856); A Financial, Statistical and Monetary History of England from 1688 (London, 1847); Matter for Materialists (London, 1870); The Eve of St Mark, a Romance of Venice; and three dramas, The Statue Wife, Diocletian and Caius Marius, in addition to some fishing songs, and many contributions to various newspapers and periodicals.

He also wrote many poems, and several dramas and romances, and translated into German various English works, including the Letters of Junius and Buckle's History of Civilization.

Alexis Stenwall (" Kiwi ") (1834-1872), the son of a village tailor, was the best poet of his time; he wrote popular dramas and an historical romance, The Seven Brothers (1870).

Of a rhyming family of Hjarne, it is enough to mention one member, Urban Hjarne (1641-1724), who introduced the new form of classical tragedy from France, in a species of transition from the masques of Stjernhjelm to the later regular rhymed dramas.

The other leading verse-writers were Karl Vilhelm Bottiger (1807-1878), the son-in-law and biographer of Tegner, who, in addition to his lyrical poetry, chiefly of the sentimental kind, wrote an admirable series of monographs on Swedish men of letters; Johan Borjesson (1790-1866), the last of the Phosphorists, author of various romantic dramas; Vilhelm August Detlof von Braun (1813-1860), a humorous lyrist; " Talis Qualis," whose real name was Karl Vilhelm August Strandberg (1818-1877); Oscar Patrick Sturzen-Becker (181'- 1869), better known as " Orvar Odd," a lyrical poet who was also the author of a series of amusing sketches of everyday life; and August Teodor Blanche (1811-1868), the popular dramatist.

He may be said to have created the Swedish theatre, and some of the best acting dramas in the literature are by his hand.

From the interest of the site in history and still more in literature, as the scene of so many dramas, the temptation to fix details has been specially strong.

The playwrights also include Julio Dantas, and Dr Marcellino Mesquita, author of Leonor Telles and other historical dramas, as well as of a powerful piece, Den' supremo.

The writers are often actors in the dramas which they describe, and often also the victims. A history of Moldavia from the earliest times to 1594 is ascribed to Nestor or to his son, Gregorie Ureche, or to Simion Dascalul.

Beldiman copied a number of ancient chronicles, wrote a satire on the Greeks, and translated and adapted a number of French tragedies and dramas, in verse and prose.

A certain Aristia, of Greek origin, but soon acclimatized to his surroundings as teacher at the high school in Bucharest, was the first to adapt foreign dramas for the Rumanian stage.

The plays produced on the Rumanian stage included most of the dramas of Moliere, some of Corneille, Kotzebue and Metastasio, whose Achille in Schiro was the first drama translated into Rumanian (by Iordache Slatineau, printed at *ibiu in 1797).

He was a prolific writer and translator of dramas and novels from French and Italian, the latter appearing mostly in his periodical.

Alecsandri is less successful in his dramas, most of which are adaptations from French originals; the only merit of his novels is that amidst the phonetic and philological turmoil he kept to the purer language of the people.

Of the numerous dramas and poems of which Joan of Arc has been the subject, mention can only be made of Die Jungfrau von Orleans of Schiller, and of the Joan of Arc of Southey.

The poet Matthias Jochumsson has written several dramas, but their chief merits are lyrical.

The subjects of most of his dramas were taken from Latin and Italian poets (Atalanta after Ovid, Lavinia after Virgil, Armida after Tasso); but at least in two dramas, Pavlimir and Tsaptislava, he displayed some originality, taking his themes from Servian national history.

In 1843 appeared her first volume of translations, Selections from the Dramas of Goethe and Schiller.

Among the too-numerous writings of Feuillet, the novels have lasted longer than the dramas; of the former three or four seem destined to retain their charm as classics.

Some of the original art deco and architecture can still be seen today and has featured in several movies and television period dramas.

Billy H was a great frontman, and their songs were filled with grim, gritty minutiae; proper little kitchen sink dramas.

Smiley's People, and it's illustrious predecessor remain two of the all-time great dramas.

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A friend may be unavailable when you need to talk through the dramas of the day - leaving you feeling raw.

I like comedies and dramas on the telly - dramas seem to be getting much more scarce.

These values are explored through participation in a series of ritual dramas, which use stonemason 's customs and tools as allegorical guides.

Books on mundane subjects, not at all conducive to the spiritual edification of the faithful, were read by the tsar's counsellors, and a theatre had been erected, in which the tsar often witnessed very unedifying dramas and ballets.

As for the innumerable other poems, dramas and tales which have been founded on the legend of the Cid, from the days of Guillen de Castro and Diamante to those of Quintana and Trueba, they serve merely to prove the abiding popularity of the national hero in his native land.

Now the later dramas are often notoriously awkward and redundant; while the removal of those convenient operatic devices which symbolize situations instead of developing them, does not readily appear to be compensated for by any superior artistic resource.

Pratinas was also the introducer of satyric dramas as a species of entertainment distinct from tragedy, in which the rustic merry-makings and the extravagant dances of the satyrs were retained.

From 1848 date the first poetical efforts of Arnaldo Marquez, who is distinguished for his correct diction and rich imagination, as is Nicolas Corpancho for his dramas and a volume of poems entitled Brisas, Adolfo Garcia for a beautiful sonnet to Bolivar, which was published at Havre in 1870, in his one volume of poems, and Clemente Althaus for his productivity and style.

Briefly speaking, the NO was a dance of the most stately character, adapted to the incidents of dramas which embrace within their scope a world of legendary lore, of quaint fancies and of religious sentiment.

Meanwhile he had been developing his attack on the feminist movement, which had received a great stimulus in Scandinavia from the dramas of Ibsen.

In his thirty-three dramas, sparkling comedies in prose, more or less in imitation of Moliere, he has left his most important positive legacy to literature.

Die natiirliche Tochter (1803), in which he began to embody his ideas of the Revolution on a wide canvas, proved impossible on the stage, and the remaining dramas, which were to have formed a trilogy, were never written.

The tragic event has been immortalized in dramas from the pens of Holland's most famous writers (see Vondel, HooFT).

The little songs and the sonnets have a meaning for me as fresh and wonderful as the dramas.

Smallville, One Tree Hill, and Supernatural are popular dramas, with Smallville and Supernatural mixing supernatural elements with the traditional relationship and family issues.

An adolescent model's life is much like any other teenagers in some respects; adolescent models still have to go to school, deal with the dramas that the teenage years bring, and still have time to have fun and spend time with friends.

Sheen has mastered the technique of comedic acting, appearing in such films as Major League and Hot Shots, but he can also shine in dramas, as shown in Platoon and Wall Street.

Despite his personal issues, which have included arrests, alleged racial slurs, and some nasty public breakups, Gibson's body of work includes comedies, dramas, and even spoofs.

He's also had small parts on popular dramas such as 24 and Alias.

Small parts in several popular sitcoms and dramas ensued, including appearances on The Love Boat and The A-Team.

Heatherton was also a popular guest star on sitcoms and dramas, including Route 66 and I Spy, and filmed a number of made-for-television movies.

At six years old, she appeared on various television commercials and landed small roles in popular sitcoms and dramas such as Who's the Boss, St. Elsewhere and Growing Pains, the latter alongside her brother.

Erika Alexander has been busy playing lots of small roles in some of the most popular dramas on television.

In the early days of movies with sound, westerns, comedies, and dramas ruled the cinematic roost, but the horror movie was there, lurking in the shadows and waiting for the perfect moment to pounce on unsuspecting moviegoers.

It is restricted to independent American-made films, and awards prizes for feature-length dramas and documentaries.

There is some connection, like they're all dramas from the 1950s, or maybe they all feature a particular actor, but the only reason the obscure, terrible-looking films are there is because studios and rental houses have a deal.

Mother's Day fare is more wide-ranging, comprising women-centered comedies, family dramas, musicals and classics.

There are many different romance movies available to watch, from romantic comedies to dramas, and since love is one of the most popular things to both write and make movies about, there are sure to be many more in years to come.

For example, the 1940s and 1950s witnessed a surge in musical dramas, while the 1970s and 1980s turned towards more dramatic political films.

Thanks to the plethora of television crime show dramas, most people have a sense of how evidence is collected.

Whether you're looking for children's educational programs, horror movies, classic comedies, romantic dramas, or a new workout to help you shed unwanted pounds, this Web site has what you need.

People have been captivated by these continuing dramas for decades.

The program made an easy transition into television and it became one of the longest-running dramas ever before the show finally ended its run in 2009.

General Hospital appealed to viewers who loved hospital dramas.

The VCR allowed high school and college students to keep up with their favorite daytime dramas, including General Hospital, without missing school to do so.

She has been on numerous sitcoms and family dramas, and she has been very public about her struggle to lose weight and her success at doing so.

The Emmy award began honoring television shows produced and aired in the Los Angeles area in 1949, but those awards would gradually grow to encompass shows aired nationally, including daytime dramas.

When soap operas first began airing as radio dramas in the 30s and 40s, what appealed to the fans that tuned in daily or weekly was the personalities that came through the radio box.

The actor update section is revised regularly so that fans will know where to tune in to see their favorites on talk shows and other dramas.

Find articles filled with information about cast members of your favorite shows, the history of top rated must-see daytime dramas, where to find the best spoilers, and more.

Soap Dispenser - The Soap Dispenser provides fans with video clips, quotes, spoilers, news and more about their favorite daytime dramas including One Life to Live.

Emmy winners are the industry's way of acknowledging the tour du force acting, writing, ensemble abilities and more of daytime dramas.

While fans used to the faster pacing of other daytime dramas complained, fans of Y&R knew that if they were unfortunate and missed an episode, they wouldn't miss every beat of the story and could be caught up relatively quickly.

In fact, many found that by emulating other daytime dramas, Y&R lost the unique flavor that made it the top daytime soap opera.

Many of the fans turned out to be fans of the other daytime dramas and eventually PCO evolved into SoapZone.

Writers of Young and the Restless episodes follow the formula of serialized drama, which serves as the foundation for most daytime dramas.

The Soap Zone website is home to active CBS soap discussion boards for each of the network's four daytime dramas.

The popular Soap Central website features message boards for all the current daytime dramas, as well as for many of the nighttime soap opera programs.

Throughout the history of the awards program, the following daytime dramas have received the honor of being named as the year's most outstanding drama series one or more times.

As the World Turns, like all other daytime dramas, took a severe ratings hit in the mid-1990s and have been in steady decline ever since.

Daytime dramas are serialized and are meant to be watched day in and day out in order to see storylines build, crescendo and rebuild once again.

Most of the dramas airing today, including One Life to Live, have more than two to three decades of history invested in the characters and their storylines.

Soap hairstyles are big items for the daytime dramas and there are two categories in the Creative Arts for the Daytime Emmy Awards that are given for hairstyling.

While early serials were really aiming at the stay-at-home wife and mother, the modern inventions of TiVo, DVR, VCR, Internet and SOAPnet, let fans catch up with their favorite daytime dramas anytime.

The history of soap operas begins with the serialized radio dramas of the 1930s.

The radio dramas were usually aired in 15 minute segments each day and provided ideal "background noise" for housewives to clean house to whether they were sweeping, washing, cooking or mending.

The transition from radio to television came about slowly, and only two daytime radio dramas successfully made the transition successfully.

Evening dramas such as Dallas which gave rise to the cliffhanger ('Who Shot J.R.?') and Dynasty which gave rise to the super bitch (Alexis Carrington Colby played deliciously by Joan Collins).

Prior to starting the role of the prim and proper Bree Van De Kamp Hodge on ABC's Desperate Housewives, Marcia Cross played a wide variety of roles in several daytime and primetime dramas.

She became a star on Knots Landing, one of the most popular prime time dramas of all time.

Deidre Hall left Days of Our Lives in 1987 when coordinating her film schedule between the two dramas became too difficult.

Because soap opera theme songs are broadcast so frequently, they quickly become identified with the dramas they represent.

May of the general soap opera fan sites have sections specific to One Life to Live, as well as to other daytime dramas.

Latin America and North America soap opera history share common roots in radio dramas, but the dramas in Latin America featured specific beginning, middle and end.

Her name is synonymous with AMC and daytime dramas in general.

Berlanti's skill with character driven dramas is being tapped for a 2010 film featuring the Green Lantern from DC Comics.

Since its first airdate in 1960, it has earned itself high praise for being one of the nation's most appealing "kitchen-sink" dramas.

Like many other weddings, Bianca's wedding launched new dramas and layers to other story lines.

The spellbinding storylines also make All My Children among the most popular daytime dramas on spoiler sites.

Days of Our Lives is the sole remaining NBC soap opera after nearly two decades of cancellations have decimated other NBC daytime dramas including Santa Barbara, Generations, Passions, Sunset Beach and Another World.

The site is primarily a news site, but also features recaps, spoilers and other information on your favorite daytime dramas.

Although many head writers have come and gone over the years, ATWT manages to maintain a balance of storylines for all age groups from the teen dramas to the romances of the seniors and everything in between.

At one point in time, all three major networks featured daytime dramas.

Like other teen dramas, Degrassi also took on the school shooting that left a mark on the characters forever.

The term "Telemundo novelas" refers to the imported and domestic dramas aired on the Telemundo network within the United States.

After the purchase of Telemundo by NBC-Universal in 2001, the network devoted itself to producing dramas domestically.

The ABC hit primetime soap features nearly a dozen central characters that feed off each other's personal dramas.

Hatcher is no stranger to primetime soap dramas.

Soap opera daily updates help fans keep up with current events on their favorite daytime dramas.

It is very typical for storylines on some dramas that drag out for months to make big leaps in a few short days.

Sweeps periods (February, May, August and November) are usually the months of must see TV for daytime dramas.

Soap Central - Another popular soap opera fan site that offers news, spoilers, daily updates, comings and goings and everything you could want to know about your favorite daytime dramas.

Like their American counterparts, telenovelas focus primarily on family dramas and use a mixture of settings and time periods to tell in depth tales of relationships, adventures and love.

Like many young adult dramas that have hit the airwaves, Felicity enjoyed a cult following for the four years it was on the air.

The genre transitioned to TV in the 1950s from the radio dramas of the 1930s and 40s and now includes daytime and prime time serial programs on both network and cable television.

The magazine started awarding the "Soapy Awards" in 1977 to deserving daytime dramas and their stars.

In the beginning, they were given out to both daytime and primetime dramas, with the primetime awards being discontinued after 1992.

Unlike their other super couple counterparts on daytime dramas, Nikki and Victor's trials and tribulations were compounded by day-to-day living, business rivals and personal vendettas.

The Grey's Anatomy season finale is always highly anticipated, just like most primetime dramas.

While the episodes showcase many medical dramas that come through the doors, more than anything else, the series is about the relationships between those that work there.

This approach makes Panerai a leading model for action films and dramas.

Fox Reality TV Shows have continued to gain momentum over the years, as television primetime has evolved from sitcoms and crime dramas, into America's obsession with…itself.

Because of the popularity of Hogan Knows Best, the media spotlight was firmly on the family during this time, and consequently their dramas have played out in the public eye.

In addition, proponents of reality TV say the shows capture the human spirit in a way sitcoms and dramas can't and don't.

She is an actress and comedian who appears regularly on the show Reno 911, and has had parts in many Hollywood films and popular television dramas and sitcoms.

Still, the number of network reality programs that have lasted several seasons is comparable to the numbers seen with dramas and sitcoms.

The Luthor family's Shakespearean dramas left Lex a cynical and bitter young man, but his friendship with Clark softened the edges.

The actor is a frequent guest star on multiple dramas including NCIS, Numb3rs, Criminal Minds, Sliders and Touched by An Angel.

There remain two other dramatic works, of very different kinds, in which Ford co-operated with other writers, the mask of The Sun's Darling (acted 1624, printed 1657), hardly to be placed in the first rank of early compositions, and The Witch of Edmonton (printed 1658, but probably acted about 1621), in which we see Ford as a joint writer with Dekker and Rowley of one of the most powerful domestic dramas of the English or any other stage.

His nephew, Diego, the younger (1586-1660), produced Chauleidos (1628) and other Latin poems, including sacred dramas; a novel, Casamento Perfeito (1630); and shone as a historical critic.

The Cid of romance, the Cid of a thousand battles, legends and dramas, the Cid as apotheosized in literature, the Cid invoked by good Spaniards in every national crisis, whose name is a perpetual and ever-present inspiration to Spanish patriotism, is a very different character from the historical Rodrigo Diaz - the freebooter, the rebel, the consorter with the infidels and the enemies of Spain.

The vast myth of the Ring is related in full several times in each of the three main dramas, with ruthless disregard for the otherwise magnificent dramatic effect of the whole; hosts of original dramatic and ethical ideas, with which Wagner's brain was even more fertile than his voluminous prose works would indicate, assert themselves at all points, only to be thwarted by repeated attempts to allegorize the philosophy of Schopenhauer; all efforts to read a consistent scheme, ethical or philosophical, into the result are doomed to failure; but all this matters little, so long as we have Wagner's unfailing later resources in those higher dramatic verities which present to us emotions and actions, human and divine, as things essentially complex and conflicting, inevitable as natural laws, incalculable as natural phenomena.

But in music he had no more to learn, and Parsifal, while the most solemn and concentrated of all Wagner's dramas, is musically not always unsuggestive of old age.

A monument was erected by the inhabitants of Phlius in honour of Pratinas's son Aristias, who, with his father, enjoyed the reputation of excelling all, with the exception of Aeschylus, in the composition of satyric dramas, one of which was called Cyclops.

By offering rewards for the best original dramatic productions, the academy provided that the national theatre should not suffer from a lack of classical dramas.

Of these the most popular are comedies and serio-comic national dramas.

His chief claim to remembrance is that it was he who first put Schiller's earlier dramas on the stage, and it is to him that the poet's Briefe an den Freiherrn von Dalberg (Karlsruhe, 1819) are addressed.

Silva is the subject also of several laudatory poems and dramas, one or two of which were composed by Brazilian compatriots.

In the great 14th century "Manesse" MS. (c) collection of medieval German lyrics, preserved at Heidelberg, there are two songs written by Conradin, and his fate has formed the subject of several dramas.

History and tradition were preserved by the bards, and dramas were enacted before the sovereign and his court.

Meanwhile Harold, a tragedy of doom, was published in 1876; but, though perhaps the finest of its author's dramas,- it has never been acted.

There are 335 classical dramas of this kind in a compendium called the Yokyoka Tsuge, and many of them are inseparably connected with the names of Kwanami Kiyotsugu (1406) and his son Motokiyo (1455), who are counted the fathers of the art.

Men and women of all ranks began to visit it; the emperor himself consented (f 887) to witness a performance by the great stars of the stage at the private residence of Marquis Inouye; a dramatic reform association was organized by a number of prominent noblemen and scholars; drastic efforts were made to purge the old historical dramas of anachronisms and inconsistencies, and at length a theatre (the Yurabu-za) was built on purely European lines, where instead of sitting from morning to night witnessing one long-drawn-out drama with interludes of whole farces, a visitor may devote only a few evening-hours to the pastime.

But with the advent of the new regimen in Meiji days there arose a desire for social plays depicting the life of the modern generation, and as these croppy dramas (zampatsumono)so called in allusion to the European method of cutting the hair closewere not included in the repertoire of the orthodox theatre, amateur troupes (known as sOshi-yakusha) were organized to fill the void.

Although Rome wanted creative force to add a great series of tragic dramas to the literature of the world, yet the spirit of elevation and moral authority breathed into tragedy by Ennius passed into the ethical and didactic writings and the oratory of a later time.

Both of these dramas, which were not printed at the time but were widely circulated in manuscript, are of the type which preceded the Shakespearean age - they are allegorical and all the characters are types.

But, notwithstanding the attempt to introduce an alien element into the Roman language, which proved incompatible with its natural genius, and his own failure to attain the idiomatic purity of Naevius, Plautus or Terence, the fragments of his dramas are sufficient to prove the service which he rendered to the formation of the literary language of Rome as well as to the culture and character of his contemporaries.

It has afforded material for several dramas, and Adolf Bottger, Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig have each written one entitled Agnes Bernauer.

In this respect, Schiller's Rduber is one of the most vital German dramas of the 18th century.

The collected literary works of Wagner in German fill ten volumes, and include political speeches, sketches for dramas that did not become operas, autobiographical chapters, aesthetic musical treatises and polemics of vitriolic violence.

He wrote also several dramas and romances, the best of the latter being Fernando de Lemos (1872).