Andreas Friz’s Letter on Tragedies (ca. 1741-1744)

An Eighteenth-Century Jesuit contribution to theatre poetics

AvNienke Tjoelker

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

Del 4 i serien Drama and Theatre in Early Modern Europe

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-11-07
Mått:155 x 235 x 23 mm
Vikt:617 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska, Latin
Serie:Drama and Theatre in Early Modern Europe
Antal sidor:298
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004283732

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Nienke Tjoelker, Ph.D. (University College Cork, 2010) is Junior Researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies in Innsbruck. She has published many articles on Neo-Latin literature.

Recensioner i media

“Tjoelker’s book raises the curtain on a vibrant world of late German Jesuit drama, one of increased rather than diminished social importance in the eighteenth century”. Yasmin Haskell, The University of Western Australia. In: Parergon, Vol. 33, No. 1 (2016), pp. 251-253.

Innehållsförteckning

List of illustrationsIntroduction: Jesuit Theatre, Poetics and Andreas FritzThe History of Theatre in Jesuit SchoolsThe Relevance of Jesuit Theatre in the Eighteenth CenturyDevelopments and Innovations in the Eighteenth Century Andreas Friz: Life, Work and Historical ContextStructure and Content of MS 938 and the Epistola de TragaediisFriz’s Place in the Literary TraditionCommonplace Conceptions in Jesuit PoeticsFrench and Italian Classicism in Jesuit PoeticsEighteenth-Century Jesuit PoeticsDescription of the Manuscript and Edition PrinciplesDescription of the ManuscriptEdition PrinciplesLatin Text and TranslationAppendix: Analysis tragaediarum RaciniIntroduction to Friz’s Analyses to Racine’s PlaysEdition PrinciplesLatin TextIndex