Later Queens of the French Stage

Later Queens of the French Stage PDF Author: Hugh Noel Williams
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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Readers with a taste for theatrical history will find this no less amusing than a novel. Through the biographies of these now forgotten yet acclaimed in their time actresses, presents a view of aspects of the society of eighteenth century France, particularly the court and its interactions with the theatrical world.

Later Queens of the French Stage

Later Queens of the French Stage PDF Author: Hugh Noel Williams
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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Readers with a taste for theatrical history will find this no less amusing than a novel. Through the biographies of these now forgotten yet acclaimed in their time actresses, presents a view of aspects of the society of eighteenth century France, particularly the court and its interactions with the theatrical world.

An Etymological Dictionary of the French Language

An Etymological Dictionary of the French Language PDF Author: Auguste Brachet
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Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 598

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A Historical Grammar of the French Tongue

A Historical Grammar of the French Tongue PDF Author: Auguste Brachet
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Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Enter the King

Enter the King PDF Author: Gordon Kipling
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198117612
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 422

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This study describes for the first time the ritual purposes, symbolic vocabulary, and quasi-dramatic form of one late medieval courtly festival, the royal entry. Although the royal entry as a formal ceremony can be traced back as an unbroken tradition from late Classical times through to the Renaissance, Kipling begins where the royal entry adopts pageantry as its essential medium in the late fourteenth century.

Aspects of Genre in Late Medieval French Drama

Aspects of Genre in Late Medieval French Drama PDF Author: Alan E. Knight
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719008627
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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The Birth of an Ideology

The Birth of an Ideology PDF Author: Colette Beaune
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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"An excellent and fascinating book. . . . A completely fresh rethinking. . . . Once I started it, I became so intrigued that I could not put it down."--John F. Benton, California Institute of Technology

The Medieval Theatre

The Medieval Theatre PDF Author: Glynne William Gladstone Wickham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521312486
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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This is a thoroughly revised edition of Glynne Wickham's important history of the development of dramatic art in Christian Europe. Professor Wickham surveys the foundations on which this dramatic art was built: the architecture, costumes and ceremonial of the imperial court at Byzantium, the liturgies of countires in the Eastern and Western Empires and the triumph of the Roman rite and the Romanesque style in Western art. Within this context Professor Wickham describes three major influences upon the drama: religion, recreation and commerce. The first produced the liturgical music drama rooted in praise of Christ the King, vernacular Corpus Christi drama, Saint Plays and Moralities centred on the humanity of Christ. The second gave rise to the secular theatres of social recreation based on the games and dances of village communities ad the more sophisticated sex and war games of the nobility. The section on commerce shows how the development of the drama was intimately related to questions of funding and management which led, during the sixteenth century, to the substitution of a professional for an amateur theatre, and to a growing emphasis on stage spectacle. For this third edition the author has added a substantial section on monastic reform and its effect on Biblical translation and the use of allegory; a final chapter charts the transition in different European countries from this medieval Gothic theatre to the neoclassical methods of play construction and representation which flourished for the next two hundred years. The book gorges a coherent pattern through a very large and complicated subject. It is an excellent introduction to medieval theatre for undergraduates and to the growing number of theatregoers who enjoy contemporary revivals of medieval plays. A large plate section gives a pictorial version of the story, using photographs of contemporary manuscript illuminations, mosaics, frescoes, paintings and sculptures.

Festive Drama

Festive Drama PDF Author: Société internationale pour l'étude du théâtre médiéval. Colloque
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 9780859914963
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Essays on festive drama - plays, pageantry and traditional ceremonies - of the European middle ages, with comparative material.

This Is My Body

This Is My Body PDF Author: Michal Kobialka
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472089382
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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DIVRealigns representational practices in the early Middle Ages with current debates on representation /div

Madame Du Barry

Madame Du Barry PDF Author: Hugh Noel Williams
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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Madame Du Barry by Hugh Noel Williams, first published in 1909, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.