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The Origin of German Tragic Drama
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The Origin of German Tragic Drama Paperback - 1985

by Walter Benjamin; John Osborne (Translator); Designed by George Steiner


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

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  • Title The Origin of German Tragic Drama
  • Author Walter Benjamin; John Osborne (Translator); Designed by George Steiner
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Paperback
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Verso, London, England
  • Date 1985-08-17
  • ISBN 9780860918370 / 0860918378
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00000000
  • Dewey Decimal Code 832.051

Media reviews

“Walter Benjamin is the most important German aesthetician and literary critic of [the twentieth] century.”—Sunday Times

“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.”—Susan Sontag

About the author

Walter Benjamin was a German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and is the author of "Illuminations," "The Arcades Project," and "The Origin of German Tragic Drama."
George Steiner, author of dozens of books ("The Death of Tragedy," "After Babel," "Heidegger," "In Bluebeard's Castle," "My Unwritten Books," "George Steiner at the New Yorker"), is Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College at Cambridge University.
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