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The Origin of German Tragic Drama

Paperback • 2009 • English

The Origin of German Tragic Drama

By Walter Benjamin

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Cited by Lukacs as a principal source of literary modernism, Walter Benjamin's study of the baroque stage-form called Trauerspiel (literally, "mourning play") is the most complete document of his prismatic literary and philosophical practice. Engaging with sixteenth- and seventeenth-century German playwrights as well as the plays of Shakespeare and Calderon and the engravings of Durer, Benjamin attempts to show how the historically charged forms of the Trauerspiel broke free of tragedy's mytholo...Show more

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9781844673483

Publisher

Verso Books

Published year

2009

Language

English

Original title

The Origin of German Tragic Drama

Format

Paperback

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