Hroswitha presenting a book to Emperor Otto I, with his niece,the Abbess of Gandersheim, in attendance.Woodcut by Albrect Dürer.She was a Benedictine nun of Gandersheim in Lower Saxony during the tenth century, highly educated, and the best Latin writer of her era. Her fame rests upon six “comedies” that resurrected the ancient drama and became the foundation for theater as we know it today.Hroswitha von Gandersheim (c. CE 935-1002), the nun-poetess also known as "The Mighty Voice," and "The Nightingale of Gandersheim" was a very special woman, a sister who became the mother of modern drama.Her plays, originally in manuscript,...
