Neo-Latin Drama in Early Modern Europe by Bloemendal, Jan

Neo-Latin Drama in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004253421)

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Neo-Latin Drama in Early Modern Europe by Bloemendal, Jan

Neo-Latin Drama in Early Modern Europe

$280.00
Neo-Latin Drama in Early Modern Europe by Bloemendal, Jan

Neo-Latin Drama in Early Modern Europe

$280.00
Format: Hardcover
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From ca. 1300 a new genre developed in European literature, Neo-Latin drama. Building on medieval drama, vernacular theatre and classical drama, it spread around Europe. It was often used as a means to educate young boys in Latin, in acting and in moral issues. Comedies, tragedies and mixed forms were written. The Societas Jesu employed Latin drama in their education and public relations on a large scale. They had borrowed the concept of this drama from the humanist and Protestant gymnasia, and perfected it to a multi media show. However, the genre does not receive the attention that it deserves. In this volume, a historical overview of this genre is given, as well as analyses of separate plays.

Contributors include: Jan Bloemendal, Jean-Frédéric Chevalier, Cora Dietl, Mathieu Ferrand, Howard Norland, Joaquín Pascual Barea, Fidel Rädle, and Raija Sarasti Willenius.

Author: Jan Bloemendal
ISBN-10: 9004253424
ISBN-13: 9789004253421
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 09/19/2013
Pages: 808
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.00lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.40w x 1.80d
By Jan Bloemendal
By Jan Bloemendal
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Jan Bloemendal (1961) is a senior researcher at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. His research topics include Erasmus, drama and the interplay between Latin and vernacular literatures. In 2010 he published Gerardus Joannes Vossius, Poeticae Institutiones / Institutes of Poetics.

Howard B. Norland is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. His research interests include critical theory and performance in early modern drama and the classical tradition. Among his publications are Drama in Early Tudor Britain 1485-1558 (1995) and Neoclassical Tragedy in Elizabethan England (2009).

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