Works
Casper's production as a poet, especially when considered together with his contemporaneous work as lawyer and diplomat, is astonishing. Extremely productive, he was above all known as an author of theatrical pieces marked by the well known French Classicism in drama and as - next to Andreas Gryphius - one of the most important dramatists of the baroque. In addition to this he was known as a poet and as a translator.
His novel "Großmütiger Feldherr Arminius", comprising around 3000 pages, appeared between 1689–90 and was a highpoint of baroque romantic art, despite concerns over the often obscure and overwrought language. In it he put up for discussion the situation of the German empire after the Thirty Years' War and tries to take stock of contemporary knowledge.
His lyric poetry was published in periodic periodicals (eLib Austria full texts).
He used exaggeration and distortion in his works to work out the contrast to the "better" reality, and they thus stand in the tradition of Senecan tragedy.
Daniel Caspar von Lohenstein in many of his writings showed his views on statescraft and the art of ruling, similar to "Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau" on the topic.
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