The Persistence of Allegory Drama and Neoclassicism from Shakespeare to Wagner Jane K. Brown "An ambitious survey of a great deal of culture, attempting links and connections on a grand scale."--David Bevington, University of Chicago "A learned, fascinating book."--Choice In an impressively comparative work, Jane K. Brown explores the tension in European drama between allegory and neoclassicism from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century. Imitation of nature is generally thought to triumph over religious allegory in the Elizabethan and French classical theater, a shift...