The Persistence of Allegory; Drama and Neoclassicism from Shakespeare to Wagner
by Brown, Jane K
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0812239660
- ISBN 13
- 9780812239669
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About This Item
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 978-0-8122-3966-9 [978-0-8122-3966-9] 2007. (Hardcover) 292pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. There is a previous owner's blind stamp to the front free endpaper. "This book traces a complex history of neoclassicism in which new allegorical forms flourish and older ones are constantly revitalized. Brown reveals the allegorical survivals in the works of such major figures as Shakespeare, Calderon, Racine, Vondel, Metastasio, Goethe, and Wagner and reads tragedy, comedy, masque, opera, and school drama together rather than as separate developments". Book about Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe & Shakespeare. (Theater, Allegory, Comedy, Drama, Literary Criticism, Neo-Classicism, Opera, Theater--England).
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-279) and index
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- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 150840
- Title
- The Persistence of Allegory; Drama and Neoclassicism from Shakespeare to Wagner
- Author
- Brown, Jane K
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0812239660
- ISBN 13
- 9780812239669
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press 978-0-8122-3966-9
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- This edition first published
- 2007
- Keywords
- Theater, Allegory, Comedy, Drama, Literary Criticism, Neo-Classicism, Opera, Theater--England
- Bookseller catalogs
- Drama and Theater;
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