The Intervention of Philology: Gender, Learning, and Power in Lohenstein's Roman PlaysThis book examines the interplay of history, textuality, dramaturgy, and politics in the 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 dress as women 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. Newman's study sheds 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. |
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... Agrippina : Matricide in the Margins The incest scene in act 3 of Lohenstein's Agrippina is prominent among the reasons why the play as a whole has been most criticized . In ... Agrippina 109 Semiramis and Agrippina: Matricide in the Margins.
... Agrippina : Matricide in the Margins The incest scene in act 3 of Lohenstein's Agrippina is prominent among the reasons why the play as a whole has been most criticized . In ... Agrippina 109 Semiramis and Agrippina: Matricide in the Margins.
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... Agrippina is discussed in Forstner's glosses indicates that they were in fact politi- cal rivals , caught in a power struggle in which either one of them could win , but not both . We can best understand Forstner's frequent use of the ...
... Agrippina is discussed in Forstner's glosses indicates that they were in fact politi- cal rivals , caught in a power struggle in which either one of them could win , but not both . We can best understand Forstner's frequent use of the ...
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... Agrippina , but Nero , who lusted for the crime ) ( 14.2.108-9 ) . Although Forstner does not take sides in the dispute about sources that Tacitus describes , his notes clearly suggest that he prefers the ... Agrippina's 126 Agrippina.
... Agrippina , but Nero , who lusted for the crime ) ( 14.2.108-9 ) . Although Forstner does not take sides in the dispute about sources that Tacitus describes , his notes clearly suggest that he prefers the ... Agrippina's 126 Agrippina.
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Allegory and the Work of Melancholy: The Late Medieval and Shakespeare Jeremy Tambling No preview available - 2004 |
Allegory and the Work of Melancholy: The Late Medieval and Shakespeare Jeremy Tambling No preview available - 2004 |