Zeitsprünge

The first secular tragedy in French, Étienne Jodelle’s tragedy Cléopâtre captive, echoes a specific historical moment, namely the siege of Metz by Charles V in the winter of 1552–1553. In the play, the Egyptian queen is defeated militarily by...

In the favorable context of the Italianizing court of Maria de Medici, but also of Louis XIII, the article focuses on the travels of Giovan Battista Andreini in Paris between 1613 and 1625. It intends to highlight the role of the famous actor-author...

This article is dedicated to the peculiar genre of the ‘Freudenspiel’ (joy play), which was used in the German-speaking world in the 17th century. It will be shown that the term was by no means only understood as a synonym for ‘comedy’, but...

This paper analyses the threshold between the mask and the theatre persona’s character in Italian comedy between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The threshold, doesn’t have to be seen as the final closure, but as the friction between...

The category of “forme intermedie”, coined by Aby Warburg in Italian (“Zwischenformen” in German) – intermediate between art and life – allows for a broad recognition of the history of the experience of representation, not reducible to...

Towards the end of his life, the Venetian painter Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727–1804) created the Divertimento per li Regazzi, a cycle of 104 larger-Format pen and ink drawings. This series is generally regarded as his magnum opusand is usually...

This article broaches the subject of the transformations that the Italian Commedia dell’arte underwent in ist reception in the German-speaking countries in the Early Modern Age. At the Catholic courts of Southern Germany,which were the first to...