This repository provides a digitised and enriched version of the corpus of bourgeois tragedies (Bürgerliche Trauerspiele) assembled by Cornelia Mönch for her landmark monograph "Abschrecken oder Mitleiden" (1993). The corpus consists of 257 plays. The data are all contained in the file "bgltr.csv".
If available, we add Wikidata, GND and DraCor identifiers for works. G. E. Lessing's play "Emilia Galotti" might serve as an example: