{"product_id":"joannes-burmeister-aulularia-and-other-inversions-of-plautus-hardcover","title":"Joannes Burmeister: Aulularia and Other Inversions of Plautus - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoannes Burmeister\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMichael Fontaine\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoannes 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' 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 \u003ci\u003eAulularia\u003c\/i\u003e (1629), which exists in a sole copy, and the fragments of \u003ci\u003eMater-Virgo\u003c\/i\u003e (1621), which adapts Plautus' \u003ci\u003eAmphitryo\u003c\/i\u003e to show the Nativity of Jesus.The introduction offers reconstructions of \u003ci\u003eSusanna\u003c\/i\u003e (based on\u003ci\u003e Casina\u003c\/i\u003e) and \u003ci\u003eAsinaria\u003c\/i\u003e (1625), his two lost or unpublished inversions of Plautus.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 \u003ci\u003ePoppea\u003c\/i\u003e or Purcell's \u003ci\u003eDido\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAeneas\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as to his tumultuous times, with his views on military abuses in the Thirty Years War prefiguring those of Grimmelshausen's \u003ci\u003eSimplicius Simplicissimus.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Fontaine\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis Associate Professor of Classics at Cornell University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 380\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.5 x 6.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 15, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47468017025202,"sku":"9789462700086","price":172.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/58d24eb36de3616e37f56d4078f8acf2.webp?v=1779042357","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/joannes-burmeister-aulularia-and-other-inversions-of-plautus-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}