Note 332 — Chapter II · THE ARTIST IN THEORY
Reading edition
The essay—Entwurf zur Organisation eines Deutschen National-Theaters für das Konigreich Sachsen, in G.S., ii. 233 ff.—must be read in full. "My plan," he says, "was not merely to rescue the theatre, but at the same time to conduct it, under the shelter and inspection of the State, to a noble significance and efficacy." His main thesis was that "the Theatre should have no other purpose than the ennoblement of taste and manners." See Wagner's own account of the affair in Mein Leben, pp. 444 ff.