The Persistence of Allegory: Drama and Neoclassicism from Shakespeare to Wagner

by Jane K. Brown

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In an impressively comparative work, Jane K. Brown explores the tension in European drama between allegory and neoclassicism from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century. Imitation of nature is generally thought to triumph over religious allegory in the Elizabethan and French classical theater, a shift attributable to the recovery of Aristotle's Poetics in the Renaissance. But if Aristotle's terminology was rapidly assimilated, Brown...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0812239660

ISBN13:9780812239669

Release Date:December 2006

Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press

Length:304 Pages

Weight:1.40 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"

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