The Origin of German Tragic Drama
The Origin of German Tragic Drama The Origin of German Tragic Drama is Walter Benjamin's most sustained and original work. Benjamin also comments on the engravings of Durer and the theatre of…
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The Origin of German Tragic Drama
The Origin of German Tragic Drama is Walter Benjamin's most sustained and original work. Benjamin also comments on the engravings of Durer and the theatre of Calderon and Shakespeare. 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.
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 Baroque tragedy, he argues, was distinguished from classical tragedy by its shift from myth into history.