Freytag

[ frahy-tahk ]

noun
  1. Gus·tav [goos-tahf], /ˈgʊs tɑf/, 1816–95, German novelist, playwright, and journalist.

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How to use Freytag in a sentence

  • As for the worthy Freytag, he felicitated himself highly on the way he had handled that dabbler in poeshy.

  • Freytag assigns to the second act, as a rule, the Steigerung or heightening--the working-up, one might call it--of the interest.

    Play-Making | William Archer
  • In discussing what Freytag calls the erregende Moment, we might have defined it as the starting-point of the tension.

    Play-Making | William Archer
  • Our fellow traveller, brother Freytag has his bed at present upon a heap of shavings.

  • Kreuzburg, which became a town in 1252, was the birthplace of the novelist Gustav Freytag.

British Dictionary definitions for Freytag

Freytag

/ (German ˈfraitaːk) /


noun
  1. Gustav (ˈɡʊstaf). 1816–95, German novelist and dramatist; author of the comedy Die Journalisten (1853) and Soll und Haben (1855), a novel about German commercial life

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