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"Joannes Burmeister of Lüneburg (1576-1638) was among the greatest Neo-Latin poets of the German Baroque. His masterpieces, now mostly lost, are Christian ' inversions' of the classical Roman comedies of Plautus. With only minimal changes in language and none in meter, each transform...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Burmeister, Joannes, 1576-1638 (Autor)
Otros Autores: Fontaine, Michael (Editor , Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Latín
Alemán
Publicado: Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press, [2015]
Colección:Bibliotheca Latinitatis novae.
Temas:
Burmeister, Joannes, > 1576-1638.
Plautus, Titus Maccius > Adaptations.
Burmeister, Joannes, > 1576-1638
Plautus, Titus Maccius
Latin drama, Medieval and modern > History and criticism.
Théâtre latin médiéval et moderne > Histoire et critique.
FICTION > General.
Latin drama, Medieval and modern
Adaptations
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"Joannes Burmeister of Lüneburg (1576-1638) was among the greatest Neo-Latin poets of the German Baroque. His masterpieces, now mostly lost, are Christian ' inversions' of the classical Roman comedies of Plautus. With only minimal changes in language and none in meter, each transforms Plautus' s pagan plays into comedies based on biblical themes. Fascinating in their own right, they also bring back to attention forgotten genres of Renaissance literature. This volume offers the first critical edition of the newly discovered 'Aulularia' (1629), which exists in a sole copy, and the fragments of 'Mater-Virgo' (1621), which adapts Plautus' s 'Amphitryo' to show the Nativity of Jesus. The introduction offers reconstructions of 'Susanna' (based on 'Casina') and 'Asinaria' (1625), his two lost or unpublished inversions of Plautus. Fontaine also provides the only biography of Burmeister based on archival sources, along with discussions of his inimitable Latinity and the perilous context of war and witch burning in which Burmeister wrote. Burmeister's inversions bear witness to the special talent of his age for the creative reworking of classical literature, such as Monteverdi's 'Poppea' or Purcell's 'Dido and Aeneas', as well as to his tumultuous times, with his views on military abuses in the Thirty Years War prefiguring those of Grimmelshausen's 'Simplicius Simplicissimus'."--Publisher description.
Descripción Física:1 online resource : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-258) and indexes.
ISBN:9789461661791
9461661797

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