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The intervention of philology : gender, learning, and power in Lohenstein's Roman plays / Jane O. Newman.
Van Pelt Library PT1745.L5 N49 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Newman, Jane O.
- Series:
- University of North Carolina studies in the Germanic languages and literatures ; no. 122.
- University of North Carolina studies in the Germanic languages and literatures ; no. 122
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lohenstein, Daniel Casper von, 1635-1683--Criticism and interpretation.
- Lohenstein, Daniel Casper von.
- Lohenstein, Daniel Casper von, 1635-1683--Characters--Women.
- Lohenstein, Daniel Casper von, 1635-1683--Knowledge and learning--Rome.
- Lohenstein, Daniel Casper von, 1635-1683.
- Historical drama, German--History and criticism.
- Historical drama, German.
- Power (Social sciences) in literature.
- German drama--Roman influences.
- German drama.
- Sex role in literature.
- Women in literature.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Rome--In literature.
- Rome.
- Rome (Empire).
- Physical Description:
- xv, 226 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- Jane Newman examines the interplay of history, textuality, dramaturgy, and politics in the transvestite school dramas of Daniel Casper von Lohenstein (1635-1683). The plays are based on well-known episodes from classical Roman history and were staged in Breslau by students at two all-male humanistic gymnasia. Organized exclusively around stories of such female protagonists as Agrippina, Cleopatra, Epicharis, and Sophonisbe, these productions required that the young actors cross-dress to play roles that routinely involved scenes of political intrigue, incest, seduction, torture, and threatened infanticide. In print these plays were accompanied by massive annotational apparatuses that delineate the contours of the learned universe of eastern central Europe in exacting detail.
- This study sheds new light on the ideological complexity of gender, politics, and learned culture in the early modern period as it emerges from these intriguing and often bizarre plays.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-220) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0807881228
- OCLC:
- 41944742
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