The persistence of allegory : drama and neoclassicism from Shakespeare to Wagner / Jane K. Brown.

In an impressively comparative work, Jane K. Brown explores the tension in European drama between allegory and neoclassicism from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century. Imitation of nature is generally thought to triumph over religious allegory in the Elizabethan and French classical theater,...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Brown, Jane K., 1943-
Other title:	Drama and neoclassicism from Shakespeare to Wagner.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia, Pa. : Bristol : University of Pennsylvania Press ; University Presses Marketing [distributor], 2007.
Subjects:	European drama > History and criticism. Neoclassicism (Literature) > Europe. European drama. Neoclassicism (Literature) Europe. Electronic book. Criticism, interpretation, etc.