Jane K. Brown is Professor of Germanics and Comparative Literature at the University of Washington, Seattle. She is the author and editor of several books in English and German, including Goethe's Faust: The German Tragedy and Ironie und Objektivitat: Aufsatze zu Goethe, and is the former President of the Goethe Society of North America.

"An ambitious survey of a great deal of culture, attempting links and connections on a grand scale."-David Bevington, University of Chicago "A learned, fascinating book."-Choice "The richness of many of Brown's readings and her remarkable scholarly range fuel her argument and ultimately provide a compelling picture of allegory's afterimages, which appear and recede across the history of Western drama from the sixteenth century."-Modern Philology "Her approach yields much that is valuable, especially in connection with Shakespeare, Calderon, and the German authors... a healthy reminder of the daunting complexity of the Western tradition of drama."-Comparative Literature Review

• Preface1. Introduction2. Claude's Allegories and Literary Neoclassicism3. Secular Tragedy: Neoclassicism in the Sixteenth Century4. Allegory and Passion: Latin Dramatic Forms in the Seventeenth Century5. The Allegorical Idioms of the Illusionist Stage: Spectacle in the Seventeenth Century6. Opera and Dance: The Revival of Greek Tragedy7. The Greek Revival: German Classicism and the Recovery of Spoken Drama8. Wagner and the Death of GesamtkunstwerkCoda: "This insubstantial pageant"NotesWorks CitedIndex

Jane K. Brown is Professor of Germanics and Comparative Literature at the University of Washington, Seattle. She is the author and editor of several books in English and German, including Goethe's Faust: The German Tragedy and Ironie und Objektivitat: Aufsatze zu Goethe, and is the former President of the Goethe Society of North America.

"An ambitious survey of a great deal of culture, attempting links and connections on a grand scale."-David Bevington, University of Chicago "A learned, fascinating book."-Choice "The richness of many of Brown's readings and her remarkable scholarly range fuel her argument and ultimately provide a compelling picture of allegory's afterimages, which appear and recede across the history of Western drama from the sixteenth century."-Modern Philology "Her approach yields much that is valuable, especially in connection with Shakespeare, Calderon, and the German authors... a healthy reminder of the daunting complexity of the Western tradition of drama."-Comparative Literature Review

• Preface1. Introduction2. Claude's Allegories and Literary Neoclassicism3. Secular Tragedy: Neoclassicism in the Sixteenth Century4. Allegory and Passion: Latin Dramatic Forms in the Seventeenth Century5. The Allegorical Idioms of the Illusionist Stage: Spectacle in the Seventeenth Century6. Opera and Dance: The Revival of Greek Tragedy7. The Greek Revival: German Classicism and the Recovery of Spoken Drama8. Wagner and the Death of GesamtkunstwerkCoda: "This insubstantial pageant"NotesWorks CitedIndex

Jane K. Brown is Professor of Germanics and Comparative Literature at the University of Washington, Seattle. She is the author and editor of several books in English and German, including Goethe's Faust: The German Tragedy and Ironie und Objektivitat: Aufsatze zu Goethe, and is the former President of the Goethe Society of North America.

"An ambitious survey of a great deal of culture, attempting links and connections on a grand scale."-David Bevington, University of Chicago "A learned, fascinating book."-Choice "The richness of many of Brown's readings and her remarkable scholarly range fuel her argument and ultimately provide a compelling picture of allegory's afterimages, which appear and recede across the history of Western drama from the sixteenth century."-Modern Philology "Her approach yields much that is valuable, especially in connection with Shakespeare, Calderon, and the German authors... a healthy reminder of the daunting complexity of the Western tradition of drama."-Comparative Literature Review

• Preface1. Introduction2. Claude's Allegories and Literary Neoclassicism3. Secular Tragedy: Neoclassicism in the Sixteenth Century4. Allegory and Passion: Latin Dramatic Forms in the Seventeenth Century5. The Allegorical Idioms of the Illusionist Stage: Spectacle in the Seventeenth Century6. Opera and Dance: The Revival of Greek Tragedy7. The Greek Revival: German Classicism and the Recovery of Spoken Drama8. Wagner and the Death of GesamtkunstwerkCoda: "This insubstantial pageant"NotesWorks CitedIndex