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«Gut und nutzlich» – Theaterspiel als Bürgererziehung. Georg Gottharts Troia von 1598/99
[«Good and Useful» – Theater Play as Citizen Education. Georg Gotthart's Troia of 1598/99]
(Ralf Junghans)
Dramatic performances put on for the public were apparently a part of the city and citizen culture of the early modern age, following upon the tradition of the carnival plays of the late Middle Ages. A special variant of this early bourgeois culture took place in the sixteenth century in the small, Catholic city-state Solothurn in Switzerland, as here secular plays were performed. In the following article, Georg Gotthard shows that motives of citizen education were harbored in this undertaking.

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