Volume 26 (2022), Edition 1-2

Early modern plot-making has been described as the result of a superimposition of a relatively new linear plot system onto an older cyclical plot system. Toward the end of the 1590s, this leads in England, and above all on the Shakespearean stage,...

Starting by discussing the place of tragedy in a secular modern age, the article describes the updates that Pierre Corneille makes to the model of Aristotelian tragedy. In one central aspect, they concern the relationship of the audience to what is...

This article is on the correlation between signs, images and objects of warfare in one of the most proliferate texts of the Italian Renaissance: Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso (1516, 1521, 1532) and their nachleben in Miguel de Cervantes Don...

This article explores an (impracticable) recipe for a ›steganographic‹ telegraph (actually two synchronized mariner‘s compasses that were synchronized with the power of exotic stones).This ›secret‹ was published severals times during the...

Der Stil »Rustique« by Ernst Kris, published in 1926, was the first art historical study of the phenomenon of radically naturalistic tendencies in late Renaissance European art, especially the practice and use of casts from life. Protagonists of...

The vanitas-motif of the young woman and death was a popular subject in the early modern period, but then disappeared almost completely after the 17th century. It is only in contemporary installations, photographs, and theater pro- ductions that it...