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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... Persian law as an indication that the play was addressing issues of political prag- matism rather than simply representing a powerful woman's moral tur- pitude . Given the similarities between herself and the stage Agrippina , Duchess ...
... Persian law as an indication that the play was addressing issues of political prag- matism rather than simply representing a powerful woman's moral tur- pitude . Given the similarities between herself and the stage Agrippina , Duchess ...
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... Persian precedent for the permissibility of incest was , at the very least , a recognizable position in a debate about the relativity of cultural values conducted among an- cient historians and biographers , and thus neither unique nor ...
... Persian precedent for the permissibility of incest was , at the very least , a recognizable position in a debate about the relativity of cultural values conducted among an- cient historians and biographers , and thus neither unique nor ...
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... Persians , allowed moth- ers , sisters , and daughters to “ mix with their own " ( suis miscebantur ) . If Lohenstein ... Persian customs at all , Lohenstein would have found the connection between Romans and Persians in Ernesti's notes ...
... Persians , allowed moth- ers , sisters , and daughters to “ mix with their own " ( suis miscebantur ) . If Lohenstein ... Persian customs at all , Lohenstein would have found the connection between Romans and Persians in Ernesti's notes ...
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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 |