Overview

In Andreas Friz’s Letter on tragedies (ca. 1741-1744) Nienke Tjoelker offers insight into the Jesuit school theatre of the eighteenth century. Commonly ignored by scholars, who assume that by then Jesuit theatre was disappearing and of poor quality, it appears to be very much alive and interacting with contemporary vernacular theatre. Tjoelker places Friz's poetics in its historical and literary context in an extensive introduction and presents an edition with translation. She investigates Friz's focus on the imitation of French classical writers, such as Jean Racine (1639-1699) and Pierre Corneille (1606-1684). Friz criticised his colleagues for their excessive use of multimedia ornaments, which hindered the correct application of the three classical unities and verisimilitude.

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Author:   Nienke Tjoelker
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   4
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.617kg
ISBN:  

9789004283732

ISBN 10:   9004283730
Pages:   298
Publication Date:   07 November 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   English, Latin

Table of Contents

List of illustrations Introduction: Jesuit Theatre, Poetics and Andreas Fritz The History of Theatre in Jesuit Schools The Relevance of Jesuit Theatre in the Eighteenth Century Developments and Innovations in the Eighteenth Century Andreas Friz: Life, Work and Historical Context Structure and Content of MS 938 and the Epistola de Tragaediis Friz’s Place in the Literary Tradition Commonplace Conceptions in Jesuit Poetics French and Italian Classicism in Jesuit Poetics Eighteenth-Century Jesuit Poetics Description of the Manuscript and Edition Principles Description of the Manuscript Edition Principles Latin Text and Translation Appendix: Analysis tragaediarum Racini Introduction to Friz’s Analyses to Racine’s Plays Edition Principles Latin Text Index

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Tjoelker's book raises the curtain on a vibrant world of late German Jesuit drama, one of increased rather than diminished social importance in the eighteenth century . Yasmin Haskell, The University of Western Australia. In: Parergon, Vol. 33, No. 1 (2016), pp. 251-253.

Author Information

Nienke Tjoelker, Ph.D. (University College Cork, 2010) is Junior Researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies in Innsbruck. She has published many articles on Neo-Latin literature.

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