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

by Jane K. Brown

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, a shift attributable to the recovery of Aristotle's Poetics in the Renaissance. But if Aristotle's terminology was rapidly assimilated, Brown...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812239660
• ISBN13: 9780812239669
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"