Facing Up to Tragedy

Lurie, Michael

doi:10.1002/9781118350508.ch30

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“… 6 Crucial exceptions include Hartfelder, 363–65; Parente; Rhein; Ritoók-Szalay; Lurie, 2004, 2006, and 2012.…”

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Tragedy at Wittenberg: Sophocles in Reformation Europe

Lazarus

2020

Renaiss. Q.

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Amid the devastation of the Schmalkaldic War (1546–47), Philip Melanchthon and his colleagues at Wittenberg hastily compiled a Latin edition of Sophocles from fifteen years of teaching materials and sent it to Edward VI of England within weeks of his coronation. Wittenberg tragedy reconciled Aristotelian technology, Reformation politics, and Lutheran theology, offering consolation in the face of events that themselves seemed to be unfolding on a tragic stage. A crucial but neglected source of English and Continental literary thought, the Wittenberg Sophocles shaped the reception of Greek tragedy, tragic poetics, and Neo-Latin and vernacular composition throughout the sixteenth century.

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“… 6 Crucial exceptions include Hartfelder, 363–65; Parente; Rhein; Ritoók-Szalay; Lurie, 2004, 2006, and 2012.…”

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“… 10 The Wittenberg Sophocles has been attributed to Melanchthon rather than Winshemius by Rhein; Ritoók-Szalay; and Lurie, 2004, 2006, and 2012. There is insufficient space here to discuss the strong, but complex, evidence on both sides.…”

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