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- Title
Tragedy at Wittenberg: Sophocles in Reformation Europe.
- Authors
Lazarus, Micha
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
EUROPE; SOPHOCLES, ca. 497 B.C.-406 B.C.; REFORMATION; WITTENBERG University; SCHMALKALDIC War, 1546-1547; MELANCHTHON, Philipp, 1497-1560; EDWARD VI, King of England, 1537-1553; TRANSLATIONS of Greek literature; RENAISSANCE literature -- History &; criticism; SIXTEENTH century; INTELLECTUAL life
- Publication
Renaissance Quarterly, 2020, Vol 73, Issue 1, p33
- ISSN
0034-4338
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/rqx.2019.494