Benjamin Walter - The Origin Of German Tragic Drama - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: The Origin of German Tragic Drama is Walter Benjamin’s most sustained and original work. It begins with a general theoretical introduction 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. Benjamin also comments on the engravings of Durer and the theatre of Calderon and Shakespeare. Baroque tragedy he argues was distinguished from classical tragedy by its shift from myth into history. Georg Lukacs an opponent of Benjamin’s aesthetics singled out The Origin of German Tragic Drama as one of the main sources of literary modernism in the twentieth century.
Title: The Origin Of German Tragic Drama
Author(s): Benjamin Walter
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781804290460
Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/22/2023
Category: Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights