Spirit Versus Body: the Plays of the Hrotsvitha Cover Image

Дух срещу тяло: пиесите на монахинята Хротсвита
Spirit Versus Body: the Plays of the Hrotsvitha

Author(s): Asen Terziev
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Fine Arts / Performing Arts
Published by: Национална академия за театрално и филмово изкуство „Кр. Сарафов“
Keywords: medieval theatre; Hrotsvitha; European drama

Summary/Abstract: The text presents the dramatic works of the canoness Hrotsvitha; who had lived and worked in the Gandersheim Abbey; lower Saxony; during the Xth century. Her six plays were discovered by the Renaissance humanists. They are the only survived dramatic works from this period of the Middle Ages; when the connection with the ancient theatre had been severed for a long period of time.The text presents the dramatic works of the canoness Hrotsvitha, who had lived and worked in the Gandersheim Abbey, lower Saxony, during the Xth century. Her six plays were discovered by the Renaissance humanists. They are the only survived dramatic works from this period of the Middle Ages, when the connection with the ancient theatre had been severed for a long period of time.

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