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From circa 1300 a new genre developed in European literature, Neo-Latin drama. Building on medieval drama, vernacular theatre and classical drama, it spread around Europe. It was often used as a means to educate young boys in Latin, in acting and in moral issues. Comedies, tragedies and mixed forms were written. The Societas Jesu employed Latin drama in their education and public relations on a large scale. They had borrowed the concept of this drama from the humanist and Protestant gymnasia, and perfected it to a multi media show. However, the genre does not receive the attention that it deserves. In this volume, a historical overview of this genre is given, as well as analyses of separate plays. Contributors include: Jan Bloemendal, Jean-Frédéric Chevalier, Cora Dietl, Mathieu Ferrand, Howard Norland, Joaquín Pascual Barea, Fidel Rädle, and Raija Sarasti Willenius.

Latin drama, Medieval and modern --- History and criticism --- Roman influences --- Neo-Latin literature --- Theatrical science --- Drama --- Drama. --- Latin drama, Medieval and modern. --- Neulatein. --- Theater. --- History and criticism. --- Roman influences. --- Europa. --- Latin literature, Medieval and modern --- Latin drama, Medieval and modern - History and criticism --- Latin drama, Medieval and modern - Roman influences

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 The introduction offers reconstructions of Susanna (based on Casina) and Asinaria (1625), Burmeister's two lost or unpublished inversions of Plautus.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