The Origin of German Tragic Drama
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1804290467
ISBN-13
9781804290460
Publisher
Verso Books
Imprint
Verso Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 22nd, 2023
Print length
256 Pages
Weight
206 grams
Dimensions
12.90 x 19.90 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: from c 1900 -Literary studies: plays & playwrights
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Benjamin's most sustained and original work, and one of the main sources of literary modernism
<i>The Origin of German Tragic Drama</i> is Walter Benjamin's most sustained and original work. It begins with a general theoretical introduction on the nature of the baroque art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, concentrating on the peculiar stage-form of royal martyr dramas called Trauerspiel. Benjamin also comments on the engravings of Durer and the theatre of Calderon and Shakespeare. Baroque tragedy, he argues, was distinguished from classical tragedy by its shift from myth into history. Georg Lukacs, an opponent of Benjamin's aesthetics, singled out The Origin of German Tragic Drama as one of the main sources of literary modernism in the twentieth century.
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