Heroic comedy

Japanese: 英雄喜劇詩 - えいゆうきげきし
Heroic comedy

…In his “Miscellany” (1608), the main theme is rebellion against ancient authority, especially against Aristotle, and in “Reflections on the Lyric Poetry of Petrarch” (1609), he attacks the Petrarchan-style love poetry that was all the rage in Western Europe at the time. On the other hand, his talent as a poet was fully demonstrated in satire, and his masterpiece “The Stolen Tub” (12 songs, 1622), which is said to be the founding work of so-called heroic comedy, is a kind of parody, singing about the war between Bologna and Modena, reminiscent of the Trojan War, in the form of heroic epic poems inherited from Ariosto to Tasso. [Kazuhiro Hayashi]. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "heroic comedy" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…《雑考十巻》(1608)では古代の権威,とりわけアリストテレスへの反抗が主調低音をなし,《ペトラルカの抒情詩に関する考察》(1609)では当時の西欧で大流行したペトラルカ風恋愛詩が攻撃の的となる。一方,詩人としての本領は風刺において遺憾なく発揮され,いわゆる英雄喜劇詩を創始したとされる代表作《奪われた桶》全12歌(1622)は,トロイア戦争を彷彿(ほうふつ)とさせるボローニャとモデナの戦争を,アリオストからタッソへと受け継がれた英雄叙事詩の形式で歌って,一種のパロディとなっている。【林 和宏】。…

※「英雄喜劇詩」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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