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Studies in the German Drama: A Festschrift in Honor of Walter Silz
George C. Schoolfield
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The Jesuit Jakob Masen (1606-1681) is known to Milton scholars because of the good possibility that his epic on the fall from grace, the Sarcotis, provided “the idea and some of the scenes,” as Faber du Faur puts it, for Paradise Lost.1 To students of the German Baroque, he is — before all else — the author of a work on dramaturgy, the third part of his poetics, the Palaestra Eloquentiae Ligatae.2 His own dramas, adduced as examples in the same third part, have received less attention; only recently, with the essay of Harald Burger on Masen’s Rusticus imperans — the Jesuit’s treatment of the “king for a day” theme — and Burger’s critical edition of this most frequently performed of Masen’s plays, has interpretive attention been given to Masen as a practicing dramatist.3 Burger follows the instructive method of showing, with copious quotations from the dramatic theory, how Masen practiced what he preached: what Burger has written is of essential importance, both for the study of a major Baroque comedy and for the investigation of Masen’s manual for playwrights. The present essay has the aim
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Photos: Molière Adaptation TARTUFFE: BORN AGAIN Now Open At Theatricum Botanicum
“Tartuffe: Born Again,” a hilarious satire about greed, corruption and hypocrisy, has joined the summer repertory season at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum’s unique outdoor venue. Check out photos of the production below..
Translator and adaptor Freyda Thomas has put a contemporary spin on the original French play, recasting Molière’s Tartuffe as a deposed televangelist who takes advantage of his naïve and gullible host to rook him and his family of their money. Moliere’s legendary comedic characters are wonderfully at home in this present day version, which is set in a religious television studio in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and written wholly in delightful modern verse.
”Tartuffe: Born Again” continues to run in rotation every weekend with “The Winter’s Tale,” “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “Wendy’s Peter Pan.” Upcoming, “The Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx/Latiné Vote,” a new political comedy by Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle award-winning playwright Bernardo Cubría, will join the rotation on August 24. Unlike most theaters in the L.A. area that stage continuous runs of a single play, Theatricum performs all the productions in its season in repertory
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