Product Description

In this text, the author offers a theoretical introduction to the nature of the baroque art of the 16th and 17th centuries, concentrating on the "Trauerspiel". He also comments on the engravings of Durer and the theatre of Calderon and Shakepeare. Baroque tragedy, he argues, was distinguished from classical tragedy by its shift from myth into history.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2702463 in Books
• Published on: 1998-10-29
• Original language: German
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

Review
He drew, from the obscure disdained German baroque, elements of the modern sensibility: the taste for allegory, surrealist shock effects, discontinuous utterance, a sense of historical catastrophe.