Die gedultig und gehorsam marggräfin Griselda (German Edition)

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Thomas Klinkert demonstrates how certain gaps of indeterminacy and missing motivations in Boccaccio's text--often mediated through Petrarch's version--inspire relatively original fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italian retellings, for example Giovanni Sercambi's De muliere constante. Ricarda Bauschke deepens our understanding of the late medieval Franco-German intertextualities in the reception of the Griselda figure.

In the French reception, which precedes the German reception by about fifty years, the motif is more quickly and organically adapted to existing high medieval narratives centering on love and patience. His heroine, unlike those in any of his sources or contemporary versions, has psychological depth, is given narrative space to express herself, and grows in her understanding of the religious role of marriage. In the final essay in this section, Ursula Kocher explains how the illustrations accompanying the various versions proved to be just as influential in shaping the reception of the motif as the texts themselves.

While illustrators focus on her and the lofty moral ideal she represents, her husband Walter receives considerably less attention. The short section on the early modern reception contains three essays: Using Sachs' play as well as the anonymous Augsburg Grysel , Mauritius renders the actions in his sources more psychologically plausible, emphasizes the social difference between courtly and non-courtly characters, and inserts a prologue that infuses the old narrative with historical relevance.

Both main characters, Griselda and the Duke, gain in individual definition, and their didactic or moral significance is diminished. The longest section in the essay collection centers on the reception of the Griselda narrative from Romanticism through Modernity.

As with so many medieval narratives on their way to modernity, the ballad genre contributes to the survival of motif and story in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Mario Zanucchi investigates one of the less well-known reinventions of the motif, Otto Heinrich von Loeben's novella, Markgraf Walther und Griseldis.

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Loeben chooses to use the popular genre of the legend for his retelling, in which a humble Griseldis corrects Walther's knightly ethos, thus underlining the intimate connection between medieval Christianity and chivalry. Zanucchi sees in Loeben's figuration of Griseldis an attempt to reinvigorate political absolutism through a Christian foundation. Luigi Reitani detects a challenge to the nineteenth-century codes of manly honor and womanly patience in his short reading of Friedrich Halm's Griseldis: Ein dramatisches Gedicht , a tragedy first performed at the Vienna Burgtheater in Such social and psychological criticism is absent, according to Leonard Keidel, from Gustav Schwab's and Karl Simrock's attempts at historicizing Boccaccio's novella.

These stories break with the increasing psychological realism in the postmedieval reception and revert back to a more typological Griselda, an aesthetic that also corresponds with the authors' closeness to late Baroque Catholic and Protestant concepts of piety.

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The final two essays by Peter Sprengel and Rudolf Denk follow the German Griselda reception into the early twentieth century. Sprengel provides a detailed reading of Gerhart Hauptmann's comedy, Griselda. While unsuccessful with the contemporary theater audiences in Vienna and especially Berlin, the play is the most radical rereading of the motif in its long history.

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