Krämer J (2023)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Book chapter / Article in edited volumes
Publication year: 2023
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Edited Volumes: Mapping Medea. Revolutions and Transfers 1750-1800
City/Town: Oxford
Pages Range: 138-164
ISBN: 978-0-19-288419-0
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192884190.003.0007
Krämer traces the multiple iterations of the German Medea, first in her 1770s guise as a woman with an inner drama, and second as divine figure, not only aloof, but also estranged from the human context in Klinger’s tragedy of 1787. Krämer argues that the modifications to the German Medea at this time are inextricably linked to wider generic and intermedial transformations. First, Krämer delineates the shift from the unambiguous characters of early opera to the experiments with psychological interiority afforded by the development of ‘monodramatic melodrama’; and second, he explores the rejection of sentimentalism found in the new tragedies by Klinger at the turn of the nineteenth century.
APA:
Krämer, J. (2023). Shaping Complexity: Medea in the German-language Theatre of the Eighteenth Century. In Anna Albrektson, Fiona Macintosh (Eds.), Mapping Medea. Revolutions and Transfers 1750-1800. (pp. 138-164). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
MLA:
Krämer, Jörg. "Shaping Complexity: Medea in the German-language Theatre of the Eighteenth Century." Mapping Medea. Revolutions and Transfers 1750-1800. Ed. Anna Albrektson, Fiona Macintosh, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 138-164.
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