*Goethe pondering history and historians. This is "Weimar Classicism" talking to history, making the case for itself. *We're posterity, so we can hear this. There's something sad and touching about it ...

After Germany was unified, we got Sturm, Drang, Weimar Classicism and Goethe. Theater had a slow start in Germany, mainly because Germany wasn't a thing until *relatively* recent times. After Germany ...