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Andreas Friz's letter on tragedies (ca. 1741-1744) : an eighteenth-century Jesuit contribution to pheatre poetics / critical edition and introduction by Nienke Tjoelker.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Drama and theatre in early modern Europe ; Volume 4.
- Drama and Theatre in Early Modern Europe, 2211-341X ; Volume 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tragedy--History and criticism.
- Tragedy.
- Drama--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- Drama.
- Jesuit theater--Europe--History--18th century.
- Jesuit theater.
- Jesuit drama--Europe--History and criticism.
- Jesuit drama.
- Friz, Andreas, 1711-1790. Epistola de tragaediis.
- Friz, Andreas.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (305 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Andreas Friz’s Letter on tragedies (ca. 1741-1744) Nienke Tjoelker offers insight into the Jesuit school theatre of the eighteenth century. Commonly ignored by scholars, who assume that by then Jesuit theatre was disappearing and of poor quality, it appears to be very much alive and interacting with contemporary vernacular theatre. Tjoelker places Friz's poetics in its historical and literary context in an extensive introduction and presents an edition with translation. She investigates Friz's focus on the imitation of French classical writers, such as Jean Racine (1639-1699) and Pierre Corneille (1606-1684). Friz criticised his colleagues for their excessive use of multimedia ornaments, which hindered the correct application of the three classical unities and verisimilitude.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Jesuit Theatre, Poetics and Andreas Friz
- Latin Text and Translation
- Introduction to Friz’s Analyses of Racine’s Plays
- Latin Text
- Bibliography
- Index of Personal Names.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-28374-9
- OCLC:
- 895256981
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004283749 DOI
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