The Constructive Art of Gryphius' Historical Tragedies (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783261035141)

This study clarifies how Gryphius worked with a variety of source materials to artistically construct his four historical tragedies. Three conventional dramatic forms and techniques (choruses, poeticized monologues or Prunkreden, and visionary phenomena) are examined to determine how he poetically heightened his source material to proclaim vanitas mundi and the corollary message of gloria coeli. His creative use of these traditional conventions established the procedural mode of drama construction followed in Germany until the end of his century.

Author: Blake Lee Spahr,Prof Janifer Gerl Stackhouse
ISBN-10: 3261035145
ISBN-13: 9783261035141
Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P
Language: English
Published: 12/31/1986
Pages: 194
Format: Paperback