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 Jesuits and...

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Other Authors: Smith, Nigel, 1958- editor (editor), Bloemendal, Jan, 1961- editor
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden, Netherlands : Brill [2016]
Edition:First edition
Series:Drama and theatre in early modern Europe ; Volume 5.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009434038206719
Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Introduction
  • 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 (1637) / Freya Sierhuis
  • 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
  • The Baroque Tragedy of the Roman Jesuits: Flavia and Beyond / Blair Hoxby
  • 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 (1641) / Tatiana Korneeva
  • French Tragedy during the Seventeenth Century: From Cruelty on a Scaffold to Poetic Distance on Stage / Christian Biet
  • German Trauerspiel and Its International Nexus: On the Migration of Poetic Forms / Joel B. Lande
  • The Politics of Mobility: Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, Jan Vos’s Aran en Titus and the Poetics of Empire / Helmer Helmers
  • French Classicism in Jesuit Theater Poetics of the Eighteenth Century / Nienke Tjoelker
  • Scenario of Terror: Royal Violence and the Origins of Russian Tragic Drama / Kirill Ospovat
  • Index.