Politics and Aesthetics in European Baroque and Classicist Tragedy

by Jan Bloemendal and Nigel Smith

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 other playwrights. To what extent were similar themes, plots, structures and styles elaborated? How is difference as well as similarity to be accounted...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004323414
• ISBN13: 9789004323414
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 454 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.4"