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The Origin of German Tragic Drama

By Walter Benjamin , George Steiner , John Osbourne

Book information

Publisher
Verso
Year
2003
ISBN
1859844138, 9781859844137
LCC
PT671 .B413 2003
Open Library ID
OL3318677M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
18 MB (19374262 bytes)
Pages
256\256
Library
demonoid.me
Time added
2011-03-06 17:00:15

Description

The Origin of German Tragic Drama is generally acknowledged as Benjamin's most sustained and original work and as one of the main sources of literary modernism in the twentieth century. It begins with a general theoretical introductions on the nature of the baroque art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, concentrating on the peculiar stage-form of royal martyr dramas called Trauerspiel. Later, Benjamin discusses the engravings of Dürer, and the theatre of Shakespeare and Calderón. Baroque tragedy, he argues was distinguished from classical tragedy by its shift from myth into history.

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