Niels Nykrog

Niels Nykrog

Research Assistant

In January 2024, I handed in my PhD dissertation under the title 'Between Parnassus and Calvary. A Literary History of the Early Modern Martyr Drama'. It investigates how the literary models of classical tragedy and martyr story converged in a wave of martyr theatre in 16th and 17th century Europe, focusing on its Spanish, French, and German vernacular traditions.

In reading these dramas, I am interested in how modern literature and theatre developed conceptually and institutionally in negotiation with religious aesthetic forms.

As part of the project, I have set up a catalogue of martyr dramas between 15-1700. It is published here:
https://zenodo.org/records/10071421

The catalogue currently counts 234 pieces in French, Spanish, Dutch, German, Latin, Catalan, English, Italian, and Danish I receive any suggestions for this or my project in general gratefully.

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I write and edit for The Danish Encyclopedia (www.lex.dk) on all subjects related to German literature before 1720.

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I am affiliated with Sofie Kluge's HISTORIES-project:

https://www.sdu.dk/en/om_sdu/institutter_centre/ikv/forskning/forskningsprojekter/histories,-d-,_assessing_the_role_of_aesthetics_in_the_historical_paradigm

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