REPLY1849
HENNO RUSTICUS
By S.W.S. (Mickleham)
The query of your correspondent W. at p. 12, No. 1. regards, I presume, *Henno Comediola Rustico Ludicra, nunc iterum publicata*; Magdeburg, 1614, 8vo.? If so, he will find it to be identical with the *Scænica Progymnasmata h. e. Ludicra Præexercitamenta* of Reuchlin, first printed at Strasburg in 1497, and frequently reprinted during the first part of the sixteenth century, often with a commentary by Jacob Spiegel. A copy, which was successively the property of Mr. Bindley and Mr. Heber, is now before me. It was printed at Tubingen by Thomas Anselm in 1511. I have another copy by the same pri…
Topics: German Drama, Satirical Drama, Historical Customs, Literature
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