The Origin of German Tragic Drama
Download or Read eBook The Origin of German Tragic Drama PDF written by Walter Benjamin and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Author | : Walter Benjamin |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2020-05-05 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781789604733 |
ISBN-13 | : 1789604737 |
Rating | : 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Origin of German Tragic Drama by : Walter Benjamin
Book excerpt: The Origin of German Tragic Drama is Walter Benjamin's most sustained and original work. It begins with a general theoretical introduction on the nature of the baroque art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, concentrating on the peculiar stage-form of royal martyr dramas called Trauerspiel. Benjamin also comments on the engravings of Durer and the theatre of Calderon and Shakespeare. Baroque tragedy, he argues, was distinguished from classical tragedy by its shift from myth into history. Georg Lukacs, an opponent of Benjamin's aesthetics, singled out The Origin of German Tragic Drama as one of the main sources of literary modernism in the twentieth century.