History and Drama : : the Pan-European tradition / / Joachim Küpper, Jan Mosch, Elena Penskaya.

• VerfasserIn: Küpper, Joachim,; Mosch, Jan,; Penskaya, Elena,
• TeilnehmendeR: Mosch, Jan,; Penskaya, Elena,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin : : De Gruyter,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 202 pages) :; illustrations

Aristotle's neat compartmentalization notwithstanding (Poetics, ch. 9), historians and playwrights have both been laying claim to representations of the past - arguably since Antiquity, but certainly since the Renaissance. At a time when narratology challenges historiographers to differentiate...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Introduction
• Literature and Historiography in Aristotle and in Modern Times
• History, Myth, and Early Modern Drama
• King Arthur in Medieval French Literature: History and Fiction, the Sense of the Tragic, and the Role of Dreams in La Mort le Roi Artu
• When History Does Not Fit into Drama: Some Thoughts on the Absence of King Arthur in Early Modern Plays
• Machiavelli's Soteriology and the Humanist Quattrocento Dialogue
• Lucretia without Poniard: Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft's Geeraerdt van Velsen between Livy and Tacitus
• The Historical Writing of Catherine II: Dynasty and Self-Fashioning in The Chesme Palace (Chesmenskii Dvorets)
• History - Drama - Mythology
• Fielding's Farces: Travestying the Historiosophical Discourse
• Ostrovsky's Experience of the Creation of the European Theatrical Canon and Russian Stage Practice: Personal Preferences and General Trends
• The Bildungsdrama and Alexander Ostrovsky's Plays
• "Sail[ing] on the Pathless Deep": Michael Madhusudan Datta's Dramatic Entanglements
• The Crystallization of Early Modern European Drama in the Folk-Theater Tradition in Tyrol: The Marienberg Griseldis from 1713, Staged in 2016
• Rhetorical Ventriloquism in Application
• Notes on Contributors
• Index.