Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Claude's Allegories and Literary Neoclassicism -- 3 Secular Tragedy: Neoclassicism in the Sixteenth Century -- 4 Allegory and Passion: Latin Dramatic Forms in the Seventeenth Century -- 5 The Allegorical Idioms of the Illusionist Stage: Spectacle in the Seventeenth Century -- 6 Opera and Dance: The Revival of Greek Tragedy -- 7 The Greek Revival: German Classicism and the Recovery of Spoken Drama -- 8 Wagner and the Death of Gesamtkunstwerk -- Coda: "This Insubstantial Pageant" -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.