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The persistence of allegory : drama and neoclassicism from Shakespeare to Wagner

Title
The persistence of allegory : drama and neoclassicism from Shakespeare to Wagner / Jane K. Brown.
Author
Brown, Jane K., 1943-
Publication
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2007.

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Description
xii, 292 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-279) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- Claude's Allegories and literary neoclassicism -- Secular tragedy : neoclassicism in the sixteenth century -- Allegory and passion : Latin dramatic forms in the seventeenth century -- The allegorical idioms of the illusionist stage : spectacle in the seventeenth century -- Opera and dance : the revival of Greek tragedy -- The Greek revival : German classicism and the recovery of spoken drama -- Wagner and the death of gesamtkunstwerk -- Coda : "This insubstantial pageant".
Call Number
JFE 07-5009
ISBN
  • 0812239660
  • 9780812239669
  • 9780812236999 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2006042173
OCLC
71239220
Author
Brown, Jane K., 1943-
Title
The persistence of allegory : drama and neoclassicism from Shakespeare to Wagner / Jane K. Brown.
Imprint
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2007.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-279) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 07-5009
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