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First critical edition of Burmeister's newly discovered Aulularia 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 The introduction offers reconstructions of Susanna (based on Casina) and Asinaria (1625), Burmeister's two lost or unpublished inversions of Plautus.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.

Neo-Latin literature --- Latin drama, Medieval and modern --- History and criticism. --- Burmeister, Joannes, --- Plautus, Titus Maccius, --- adaptacje --- historia i krytyka. --- Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures --- Languages & Literatures --- Latin drama [Medieval and modern ] --- History and criticism --- Latin drama --- Latin literature --- Medieval and modern --- Plautus, Titus Maccius --- Burmeister, Johann, --- Plauto, Tito Maccio --- Plavt, Tit Makt︠s︡iĭ --- Plautus, M. Accius --- Plautus --- Plaute --- Plautus, M. Attius --- Plautus, Marcus Actius --- Plautus, Marcus Accius --- Plautus, Marcus Attius --- Plauto, Marco Accio --- Plautos, Titos Makkios --- פלאוטוס --- Joannes Burmeister --- Autobiography --- Burmeister, Joannes --- Latin drama, Medieval and modern - History and criticism.

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"Japan on the Jesuit Stage offers a comprehensive overview of the representations of early modern Japan in contemporary European Neo-Latin school theater. The chapters in the volume catalog and analyze representative plays which were produced in the hundreds all over Europe, from the Iberian Peninsula to present-day Croatia and Poland. Taking full account of existing scholarship but also introducing a large amount of previously unknown primary material, the contributions by European and Japanese researchers significantly expand the horizon of investigation on early modern European theatrical reception of East Asian elements and will be of particular interest to students of global history, Neo-Latin, and theater studies"--

Jesuit theater --- Jesuit drama --- Latin drama, Medieval and modern --- Japan in literature --- History --- History and criticism --- Latin literature, Medieval and modern --- Christian drama --- Theater, Jesuit --- Theater --- Religious aspects --- Catholic Church --- J4129 --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cross-cultural contacts, contrasts and globalization --- Christian religious orders --- Theatrical science --- Drama --- Neo-Latin literature --- Japan