Comedy is to improve everything with laughter, not ridicule. -(Germany) An actor in Lessing's Hamburg Drama Review should not only deeply understand the poet's spirit and the characters he plays, but also make his inner and outer personality completely commensurate with this spirit, and rely on his creativity to make up for the defects, plug the loopholes and find out the changes in the plot.

Drama should be improved through laughter, not ridicule, that is, not through comedy to make people laugh, not just to let this ridiculous habit shine on itself. Its real and universal benefit lies in laughter itself, in training our ability to find ridiculous things, in finding ridiculous things easily and quickly under the cover of all kinds of enthusiasm and fashion, in all kinds of bad or good natures, and even in solemnity.