Author: Antonia Pulci
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226685187
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
A talented poet and a gifted dramatist, Antonia Pulci (1452-1501) pursued two vocations, first as a wife and later as founder of an Augustinian order. During and after her marriage, Pulci authored several sacre rappresentazioni—one-act plays on Christian subjects. Often written to be performed by nuns for female audiences, Pulci's plays focus closely on the concerns of women. Exploring the choice that Renaissance women had between marriage, the convent, or uncloistered religious life, Pulci's female characters do not merely glorify the religious life at the expense of the secular. Rather, these women consider and deal with the unwanted advances of men, negligent and abusive husbands and suitors, the dangers of childbearing, and the disappointments of child rearing. They manage households and kingdoms successfully. Pulci's heroines are thoughtful; their capacity for analysis and action regularly resolve the moral, filial, and religious crises of their husbands and admirers. Available in English for the first time, this volume recovers the long muted voice of an early and important female Italian poet and playwright.
Florentine Drama for Convent and Festival
Author: Antonia Pulci
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226685187
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
A talented poet and a gifted dramatist, Antonia Pulci (1452-1501) pursued two vocations, first as a wife and later as founder of an Augustinian order. During and after her marriage, Pulci authored several sacre rappresentazioni—one-act plays on Christian subjects. Often written to be performed by nuns for female audiences, Pulci's plays focus closely on the concerns of women. Exploring the choice that Renaissance women had between marriage, the convent, or uncloistered religious life, Pulci's female characters do not merely glorify the religious life at the expense of the secular. Rather, these women consider and deal with the unwanted advances of men, negligent and abusive husbands and suitors, the dangers of childbearing, and the disappointments of child rearing. They manage households and kingdoms successfully. Pulci's heroines are thoughtful; their capacity for analysis and action regularly resolve the moral, filial, and religious crises of their husbands and admirers. Available in English for the first time, this volume recovers the long muted voice of an early and important female Italian poet and playwright.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226685187
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
A talented poet and a gifted dramatist, Antonia Pulci (1452-1501) pursued two vocations, first as a wife and later as founder of an Augustinian order. During and after her marriage, Pulci authored several sacre rappresentazioni—one-act plays on Christian subjects. Often written to be performed by nuns for female audiences, Pulci's plays focus closely on the concerns of women. Exploring the choice that Renaissance women had between marriage, the convent, or uncloistered religious life, Pulci's female characters do not merely glorify the religious life at the expense of the secular. Rather, these women consider and deal with the unwanted advances of men, negligent and abusive husbands and suitors, the dangers of childbearing, and the disappointments of child rearing. They manage households and kingdoms successfully. Pulci's heroines are thoughtful; their capacity for analysis and action regularly resolve the moral, filial, and religious crises of their husbands and admirers. Available in English for the first time, this volume recovers the long muted voice of an early and important female Italian poet and playwright.
Macmillan's Magazine
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Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Languages : en
Pages : 586
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The True Latter-Day-Saints' Herald
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Category : Mormons
Languages : en
Pages : 752
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Category : Mormons
Languages : en
Pages : 752
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How to Appreciate the Drama
Author: Thomas Littlefield Marble
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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The International Studio
Author: Charles Holme
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 792
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 792
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The Life of Handel
Author: Victor Schoelcher
Publisher: London, Trübner and Company
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Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Publisher: London, Trübner and Company
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Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Shakespeare and the Culture of Romanticism
Author: Joseph M. Ortiz
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135190079X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
The idea of Shakespearean genius and sublimity is usually understood to be a product of the Romantic period, promulgated by poets such as Coleridge and Byron who promoted Shakespeare as the supreme example of literary genius and creative imagination. However, the picture looks very different when viewed from the perspective of the myriad theater directors, actors, poets, political philosophers, gallery owners, and other professionals in the nineteenth century who turned to Shakespeare to advance their own political, artistic, or commercial interests. Often, as in John Kemble’s staging of The Winter’s Tale at Drury Lane or John Boydell’s marketing of paintings in his Shakespeare Gallery, Shakespeare provided a literal platform on which both artists and entrepreneurs could strive to influence cultural tastes and points of view. At other times, Romantic writers found in Shakespeare’s works a set of rhetorical and theatrical tools through which to form their own public personae, both poetic and political. Women writers in particular often adapted Shakespeare to express their own political and social concerns. Taken together, all of these critical and aesthetic responses attest to the remarkable malleability of the Shakespearean corpus in the Romantic period. As the contributors show, Romantic writers of all persuasions”Whig and Tory, male and female, intellectual and commercial”found in Shakespeare a powerful medium through which to claim authority for their particular interests.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135190079X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
The idea of Shakespearean genius and sublimity is usually understood to be a product of the Romantic period, promulgated by poets such as Coleridge and Byron who promoted Shakespeare as the supreme example of literary genius and creative imagination. However, the picture looks very different when viewed from the perspective of the myriad theater directors, actors, poets, political philosophers, gallery owners, and other professionals in the nineteenth century who turned to Shakespeare to advance their own political, artistic, or commercial interests. Often, as in John Kemble’s staging of The Winter’s Tale at Drury Lane or John Boydell’s marketing of paintings in his Shakespeare Gallery, Shakespeare provided a literal platform on which both artists and entrepreneurs could strive to influence cultural tastes and points of view. At other times, Romantic writers found in Shakespeare’s works a set of rhetorical and theatrical tools through which to form their own public personae, both poetic and political. Women writers in particular often adapted Shakespeare to express their own political and social concerns. Taken together, all of these critical and aesthetic responses attest to the remarkable malleability of the Shakespearean corpus in the Romantic period. As the contributors show, Romantic writers of all persuasions”Whig and Tory, male and female, intellectual and commercial”found in Shakespeare a powerful medium through which to claim authority for their particular interests.
Life of Hannah More. A Lady of Two Centuries
Author: Anna Jane Buckland
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385390796
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385390796
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Saint Pauls [afterw.] The Saint Pauls magazine, ed. by A. Trollope
Author: Anthony Trollope
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Languages : en
Pages : 738
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Languages : en
Pages : 738
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Musical History, Biography, and Criticism
Author: George Hogarth
Publisher:
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Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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