The Persistence of Allegory : Drama and Neoclassicism from Shakespeare to Wagner /

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In an impressively comparative work, Jane K. Brown explores the tension in European drama between allegory and neoclassicism from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century. Imitation of nature is generally thought to triumph over religious allegory in the Elizabethan and French classical theater,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brown, Jane K., 1943-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bristol : University Presses Marketing [distributor], 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Neoclassicism (Literature)
European drama.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > General.
Neoclassicisme (Litterature) > Europe.
Theâtre europeen > Histoire et critique.
Neoclassicism (Literature) > Europe.
European drama > History and criticism.
Europe.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Claude's Allegories and Literary Neoclassicism
  • Chapter 3. Secular Tragedy: Neoclassicism in the Sixteenth Century
  • Chapter 4. Allegory and Passion: Latin Dramatic Forms in the Seventeenth Century
  • Chapter 5. The Allegorical Idioms of the Illusionist Stage: Spectacle in the Seventeenth Century
  • Chapter 6. Opera and Dance: The Revival of Greek Tragedy
  • Chapter 7. The Greek Revival: German Classicism and the Recovery of Spoken Drama
  • Chapter 8. Wagner and the Death of Gesamtkunstwerk
  • Coda: "This Insubstantial Pageant"
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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