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Aulularia and other inversions of Plautus
- Title
- Aulularia and other inversions of Plautus / Joannes Burmeister ; edited, translated and introduced by Michael Fontaine.
- Author
- Burmeister, Joannes, 1576-1638
- Publication
- Leuven : Leuven University Press, [2015]
- ©2015
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- Description
- xi, 278 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "Joannes Burmeister of Lüneburg (1576-1638) was among the greatest Neo-Latin poets of the German Baroque. His masterpieces, now mostly lost, are Christian ' inversions' of the classical Roman comedies of Plautus. With only minimal changes in language and none in meter, each transforms Plautus' s pagan plays into comedies based on biblical themes. Fascinating in their own right, they also bring back to attention forgotten genres of Renaissance literature. This volume offers the first critical edition of the newly discovered 'Aulularia' (1629), which exists in a sole copy, and the fragments of 'Mater-Virgo' (1621), which adapts Plautus' s 'Amphitryo' to show the Nativity of Jesus. The introduction offers reconstructions of 'Susanna' (based on 'Casina') and 'Asinaria' (1625), his two lost or unpublished inversions of Plautus. Fontaine also provides the only biography of Burmeister based on archival sources, along with discussions of his inimitable Latinity and the perilous context of war and witch burning in which Burmeister wrote. Burmeister's inversions bear witness to the special talent of his age for the creative reworking of classical literature, such as Monteverdi's 'Poppea' or Purcell's 'Dido and Aeneas', as well as to his tumultuous times, with his views on military abuses in the Thirty Years War prefiguring those of Grimmelshausen's 'Simplicius Simplicissimus'."-- Publisher description.
- Series Statement
- Bibliotheca Latinitatis novae
- Uniform Title
- Plays. Selections
- Bibliotheca Latinitatis novae.
- Alternative Title
- Plays.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-258) and indexes.
- Language (note)
- Text of Burmeister's Aulularia in Latin with English translation on facing pages. Fragments of Burmeister's Mater-Virgo primarily in Latin (some portions are in German) with English translation on facing pages. Introduction and notes in English.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-613
- ISBN
- 9789462700086
- 9462700087
- OCLC
- 903804290
- Author
- Burmeister, Joannes, 1576-1638, author.
- Title
- Aulularia and other inversions of Plautus / Joannes Burmeister ; edited, translated and introduced by Michael Fontaine.
- Publisher
- Leuven : Leuven University Press, [2015]
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Bibliotheca Latinitatis novaeBibliotheca Latinitatis novae.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-258) and indexes.
- Language
- Text of Burmeister's Aulularia in Latin with English translation on facing pages. Fragments of Burmeister's Mater-Virgo primarily in Latin (some portions are in German) with English translation on facing pages. Introduction and notes in English.
- Added Author
- Fontaine, Michael, editor.Burmeister, Joannes, 1576-1638. Aulularia.Burmeister, Joannes, 1576-1638. Aulularia. English.Burmeister, Joannes, 1576-1638. Mater-Virgo.Burmeister, Joannes, 1576-1638. Mater-Virgo. English.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-613