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Politics and aesthetics in European baroque and classicist tragedy /

"Politics and Aesthetics in European Baroque and Classicist Tragedy is a volume of essays investigating European tragedy in the seventeenth century, comparing Shakespeare, Vondel, Gryphius, Racine and several other vernacular tragedians, together with consideration of neo-Latin dramas by Jesuit...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bloemendal, Jan, 1961- (Editor ), Smith, Nigel, 1958- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016.
Colección:Drama and theatre in early modern Europe ; v. 5.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Jan Bloemendal and Nigel Smith
  • Part 1: Sovereignty. What Roman paradigm for the Dutch Republic? Baroque tragedies and ambiguities concerning Dominium and torture / Frans-Willem Korsten
  • Grotius among the dagonists: Joost van den Vondel's Samson, of heilige wraeck, revenge and the Ius gentium / Russ Leo
  • Performing the medieval past: Vondel's Gysbreght van Aemstel / Freya Sierhuis
  • Part 2: Religion. Political martyrdom at the English College in Rome / Howard B. Norland
  • Historical tragedy and the end of Christian humanism: Nicolaus Vernulaeus (1583-1649) / James A. Parente, Jr
  • The baroque tragedy of the Roman Jesuits: Flavia and beyond / Blair Hoxby
  • Part 3: Ethics. Mortal knowledge: akrasia in English Renaissance tragedy / Emily Vasiliauskas
  • A fabulis ad veritatem: Latin tragedy, truth and education in early modern England / Sarah Knight
  • The political theater and theatrical politics of Andrea Giacinto Cicognini: Il Don Gastone di Moncada / Tatiana Korneeva
  • French tragedy during the seventeenth century: from cruelty on a scaffold to poetic distance on stage and critical judgment / Christian Biet
  • Part 4: Mobility. German Trauerspiel and its international nexus: on the migration of poetic forms / Joel Lande
  • The politics of mobility: Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, Jan Vos' Aran and Titus and the poetics of empire / Helmer Helmers
  • French classicism in Jesuit theater poetics of eighteenth century Germany / Nienke Tjoelker
  • Scenario of terror: royal violence and the origins of Russian tragic drama / Kirill Ospovat.