Author: William Brooks
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039115334
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Much work has been done in recent years on Quinault's librettos, but no major study of his spoken plays has appeared since the monumental thesis by Etienne Gros, published in 1926. Moreover, he has never been the subject of a monograph in English. There is a need to re-assess the influence of his life on his plays, and to re-evaluate Gros's findings in the light of eighty years' research into seventeenth-century French theatre in general. This book rejects the deterministic approach that sees his plays as apprentice pieces for the greater achievement that is his corpus of librettos, as well as the implicit comparative approach that pigeon-holes his work, in passing, by borrowing from the pithy judgements of Boileau. To what extent does Quinault's steady move away from comedy and light tragi-comedy to tragedies that combine love and menace go hand in hand with his search for greater integrity, better characterisation, and ever more credible plotting? How did he come to create and retain a tremendously faithful audience that even the withering mockery of Boileau failed to discourage? And is there any purpose in retaining the time-worn comparison between the author of Andromaque and the author of Astrate?
Philippe Quinault, Dramatist
Author: William Brooks
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039115334
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Much work has been done in recent years on Quinault's librettos, but no major study of his spoken plays has appeared since the monumental thesis by Etienne Gros, published in 1926. Moreover, he has never been the subject of a monograph in English. There is a need to re-assess the influence of his life on his plays, and to re-evaluate Gros's findings in the light of eighty years' research into seventeenth-century French theatre in general. This book rejects the deterministic approach that sees his plays as apprentice pieces for the greater achievement that is his corpus of librettos, as well as the implicit comparative approach that pigeon-holes his work, in passing, by borrowing from the pithy judgements of Boileau. To what extent does Quinault's steady move away from comedy and light tragi-comedy to tragedies that combine love and menace go hand in hand with his search for greater integrity, better characterisation, and ever more credible plotting? How did he come to create and retain a tremendously faithful audience that even the withering mockery of Boileau failed to discourage? And is there any purpose in retaining the time-worn comparison between the author of Andromaque and the author of Astrate?
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039115334
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Much work has been done in recent years on Quinault's librettos, but no major study of his spoken plays has appeared since the monumental thesis by Etienne Gros, published in 1926. Moreover, he has never been the subject of a monograph in English. There is a need to re-assess the influence of his life on his plays, and to re-evaluate Gros's findings in the light of eighty years' research into seventeenth-century French theatre in general. This book rejects the deterministic approach that sees his plays as apprentice pieces for the greater achievement that is his corpus of librettos, as well as the implicit comparative approach that pigeon-holes his work, in passing, by borrowing from the pithy judgements of Boileau. To what extent does Quinault's steady move away from comedy and light tragi-comedy to tragedies that combine love and menace go hand in hand with his search for greater integrity, better characterisation, and ever more credible plotting? How did he come to create and retain a tremendously faithful audience that even the withering mockery of Boileau failed to discourage? And is there any purpose in retaining the time-worn comparison between the author of Andromaque and the author of Astrate?
French Seventeenth-century Literature
Author: Bernard Bourque
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039115372
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This volume of essays explores influences from Antiquity onwards that shaped the literary and cultural output of the French seventeenth century and the developments to which this period - the so-called 'classical' period - gave rise in later centuries. The thirteen essays in English and French cover three major areas: the continuation in French seventeenth-century literature and cultural events of themes found in previous centuries; internal changes within the body of writings by French seventeenth-century playwrights; the influence of seventeenth-century French writers on later centuries. The collection celebrates the life and scholarly achievements of the eminent dix-septiémiste Christopher J. Gossip, Emeritus Professor of French, University of New England, Australia.
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039115372
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This volume of essays explores influences from Antiquity onwards that shaped the literary and cultural output of the French seventeenth century and the developments to which this period - the so-called 'classical' period - gave rise in later centuries. The thirteen essays in English and French cover three major areas: the continuation in French seventeenth-century literature and cultural events of themes found in previous centuries; internal changes within the body of writings by French seventeenth-century playwrights; the influence of seventeenth-century French writers on later centuries. The collection celebrates the life and scholarly achievements of the eminent dix-septiémiste Christopher J. Gossip, Emeritus Professor of French, University of New England, Australia.
The Business of English Restoration Theatre, 1660–1700
Author: Deborah C. Payne
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009398210
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Deborah C. Payne explores how the duopoly of 1660 impacted company practices, stagecraft, the box office, and actors and writers.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009398210
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Deborah C. Payne explores how the duopoly of 1660 impacted company practices, stagecraft, the box office, and actors and writers.
Guide to the Crystal Palace and Park
Author: Samuel Phillips
Publisher:
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Category : Exhibitions
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exhibitions
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Guide to the Crystal Palace and park
Author: Samuel PHILLIPS (LL.D.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The Palace and Park
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exhibition buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exhibition buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
More Plays by Rivals of Corneille and Racine
Author: Lacy Lockert
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 9780826511102
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
The book contains, then, eleven plays from the great age of French drama in the seventeenth century, one play from the prolific pen of Alexandra Hardy, who proceeded the great age, and on from the eighteenth century, the aftermath of that age.
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 9780826511102
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
The book contains, then, eleven plays from the great age of French drama in the seventeenth century, one play from the prolific pen of Alexandra Hardy, who proceeded the great age, and on from the eighteenth century, the aftermath of that age.
Teaching French Neoclassical Tragedy
Author: Hélène E. Bilis
Publisher: Modern Language Association
ISBN: 1603295321
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Tragedy has been reborn many times since antiquity. Seventeenth-century French playwrights composed tragedies marked by neoclassical aesthetics and the divine-right absolutism of the Grand Siècle. But their works also speak to the modern imagination, inspiring reactions from Barthes, Derrida, and Foucault; adaptations and reworkings by Césaire and Kushner; and new productions by francophone and anglophone directors. This volume addresses both the history of French neoclassical tragedy--its audiences, performance practice, and development as a genre--and the ideas these works raise, such as necessity, free will, desire, power, and moral behavior in the face of limited choices. Essays demonstrate ways to teach the plays through a variety of lenses, such as performance, spectatorship, aesthetics, rhetoric, and affect. The book also explores postcolonial engagement, by writers and directors both in and outside France, with these works.
Publisher: Modern Language Association
ISBN: 1603295321
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Tragedy has been reborn many times since antiquity. Seventeenth-century French playwrights composed tragedies marked by neoclassical aesthetics and the divine-right absolutism of the Grand Siècle. But their works also speak to the modern imagination, inspiring reactions from Barthes, Derrida, and Foucault; adaptations and reworkings by Césaire and Kushner; and new productions by francophone and anglophone directors. This volume addresses both the history of French neoclassical tragedy--its audiences, performance practice, and development as a genre--and the ideas these works raise, such as necessity, free will, desire, power, and moral behavior in the face of limited choices. Essays demonstrate ways to teach the plays through a variety of lenses, such as performance, spectatorship, aesthetics, rhetoric, and affect. The book also explores postcolonial engagement, by writers and directors both in and outside France, with these works.
A Dictionary of Dates
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Chronology, Historical
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chronology, Historical
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
A Dictionary of Dates Brought Down to the Present Day
Author:
Publisher: London : J.M. Dent & Sons
ISBN:
Category : Chronology, Historical
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher: London : J.M. Dent & Sons
ISBN:
Category : Chronology, Historical
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description