TY  - BOOK
AU  - Price, David
AB  - This is the first comprehensive study of the dramas of Nicodemus Frischlin (1547–1590), one of the most versatile and complex playwrights of early modern Germany. Frischlin’s broad range encompassed biblical, confessional, and historical drama, all of which expressed bold social and political criticism. His plays were influential, frequently printed and translated, and often controversial. He ended his short life trying to escape prison, where he was being held for threatening further political publications. Price analyzes Frischlin’s dramatic output, as well as humanist literary theory, in particular Renaissance approaches to rhetoric and imitation, to explain how humanists modified or even subverted classical forms to accommodate political and theological activism.
DO  - 10.5149/9781469656656_Price
ID  - OAPEN ID: ONIX_20200623_9781469656656_109
KW  - German studies
KW  - Literature
KW  - Theatre and Drama
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/20a49220-566c-4992-999e-c10e90aa811a/9781469656656_WEB.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/39861
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
PP  - Chapel Hill
PY  - 1990
TI  - The Political Dramaturgy of Nicodemus Frischlin : Essays on Humanist Drama in Germany
ER  - 
