Scaramutza in Germany: The Dramatic Works of Caspar Stieler - Brossura

Aikin, Judith Popovich

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ISBN 10: 0271028467 ISBN 13: 9780271028460

Casa editrice: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, 1989

Riassunto

Scaramuzza, Scaramouche: the commedia dell'arte figure made a triumphal entry into German literature in the plays of Caspar Stieler (1632–1707). Transformed into a master of language and languages, Scaramutza—social critic, voluptuary, and mouthpiece for his author—ushers in a new type of comedy that depends more on the happy ending than on laughter for its effect. This study should both establish the significance of the long-neglected dramatic works of Caspar Stieler, already regarded as an important lyric poet of the German Baroque, and serve to initiate a reevaluation of German comedy and of the standard definition of the comic genre used by Germanists as Aikin explores the heroic or romantic comedy as a subgenre of literary merit. The study includes a discussion of Stieler's important contributions to the development of the German-language Singspiel and opera.

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L'autore:

Judith P. Aikin, Professor of German at the University of Iowa, is the author of German Baroque Drama and one of the editors of the forthcoming two-volume edition of the collected plays of Caspar Stieler. Her studies of seventeenth-century German drama and dramatic theory have appeared in numerous journals.

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• Editore: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0271028467
• ISBN 13: 9780271028460
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 244