Neidhart spirit

Japanese: Neidhartspiel
Neidhart spirit

...Although the setting is in a rural area, it is not peasant literature, but is interpreted as a parody of the Minnesang, accusing the knightly class of decadence and the decline of knightly culture from the perspective of knightly society. This dissonant poet, who decisively promoted the collapse of the Minnesang, was apparently very famous during his lifetime, and the name Neidhart became the name of a derivative work of the above-mentioned type of song, and from the 14th century onwards, he was made into the enemy of the peasants as the protagonist of a comic play called ``Neidhartspiel'' (Neidhart Play). Hans Sachs of the 16th century also wrote a comic play called ``Neidhart and the Violets''. ...

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Neidhartspiel" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…農村が舞台になってはいるが農民文学ではなく,ミンネザングのパロディという形式を借りて,騎士階級の堕落と騎士文化の落を,騎士社会の側から告発しているものと解釈される。ミンネザングの崩壊を決定的に推進したこの不協和音の詩人は,生前からひじょうに有名であったらしく,ナイトハルトという名は,上記のタイプの歌の亜流作品の名称となり,さらに14世紀以降〈ナイトハルト劇Neidhartspiel〉という笑劇Schwankの主人公として,農民の敵役に仕立てられた。16世紀のハンス・ザックスも《ナイトハルトと菫》という笑劇を書いた。…

※「Neidhartspiel」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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