Neo-Latin Drama in Early Modern Europe

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-25342-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 794 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1361 g

Reihe: Drama and Theatre in Early Modern Europe

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bloemendal, Jan

Norland, Howard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Preface
Map showing places of Neo-Latin dramatic activity

1. Introduction: Neo-Latin Drama: Contexts, Contents and Currents
Jan Bloemendal and Howard B. Norland
2. Neo-Latin Theatre in Italy
Jean-Frédéric Chevalier
3. Neo-Latin Humanist and Protestant Drama in Germany
Cora Dietl
4. Jesuit Theatre in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
Fidel Rädle
5. Neo-Latin Drama in the Low Countries
Jan Bloemendal
6. Humanist Neo-Latin Drama in France
Mathieu Ferrand
7. Jesuit Neo-Latin Tragedy in France
Jean-Frédéric Chevalier
8. Neo-Latin Drama in Britain
Howard B. Norland
9. Neo-Latin Drama in Spain, Portugal and Latin America
Joaquín Pascual Barea
10. Central and Eastern European Countries
Jan Bloemendal
11. Latin Drama in the Nordic Countries
Raija Sarasti-Wilenius

Works Cited
About the Authors
Index of Names
Index of Geographical Names
Index of Anonymous Plays
Index of Subjects

Über Autor(innen)

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).