Calderon in the German Lands and the Low Countries - His Reception and Influence, 1654-1980

Klappentext This book recounts the afterlife of the great Golden Age dramatist Pedro Calder n de la Barca in Dutch and German-speaking Europe. Zusammenfassung This book recounts the afterlife of the great Golden Age dramatist Pedro Calderón de la Barca in Dutch and German-speaking Europe. Professor Sullivan documents and analyses Calderón's reception and influence on the stage and on playwriting, criticism, philosophy and music in these territories. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of plates; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The life and works of Don Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681); 2. How did Calderón's plays get to Germany? The Netherlands, 1647-1767; 3. The burghers applaud: Calderón in anonymity; 4. A victim of neo-Classicism; 5. The critical revolution in Germany; 6. The Romantic apotheosis of Calderón; 7. The German Idealist philosophers; 8. Calderón on the German Romantic stage; 9. Calderón and German music; 10. The age of Positivism and the Wilhelmine Empire; 11. From the Weimar Republic to the Third Reich; 12. Calderón in Germany since 1945; 13. General conclusion; Appendices; Periodical abbreviations; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Henry W. Sullivan, Sullivan Henry W.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.10.2009
• EAN: 9780521121606
• ISBN: 978-0-521-12160-6
• No. of pages: 540
• Series: Cambridge Iberian and Latin American Studies; Cambridge Iberian and Latin Am; Cambridge Iberian and Latin American Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese, Spanish, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights