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Author : Gillian Jondorf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1990-10-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521360142
The principle aim of this 1990 book is to encourage readers to find pleasure in sixteenth-century tragedies.
Author : Richard Griffiths
Publisher : Oxford [Eng.] : Clarendon Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015033414460
Author : Andrew M. Kirk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317945628
How did English dramatists portray the neighboring domain of France and its history in their plays? The study examines a selection of Shakespearean and other history plays, the French tragedies of George Chapman, Christopher Marlowe's revealing historical tragedy The Massacre at Paris, and several literary and nonliterary historical texts. The result is a unique and timely contribution to our understanding of how cultural differences influenced the historical perspectives of English dramatists as well as how Renaissance plays shaped, and were shaped by, their historical material. Drawing on the insights of cultural studies, historiography, and ethnography, this study re-examines the historical representation of a neglected yet influential part of early modern Europe and the paradoxical relationship between English writers and their French subject matter. Although information about France and French history was becoming increasingly available in England at the end of the sixteenth century, for English writers France remained a distant land, its history and people misunderstood and misrepresented.
Author : Michael Meere
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611495492
The fifteen articles in this volume highlight the richness, diversity, and experimental nature of French and Francophone drama before the advent of what would become known as neoclassical French theater of the seventeenth century. In essays ranging from conventional stage plays (tragedies, comedies, pastoral, and mystery plays) to court ballets, royal entrances, and meta- and para-theatrical writings of the period from 1485 to 1640, French Renaissance and Baroque Drama: Text, Performance, Theory seeks to deepen and problematize our knowledge of texts, co-texts, and performances of drama from literary-historical, artistic, political, social, and religious perspectives. Moreover, many of the articles engage with contemporary theory and other disciplines to study this drama, including but not limited to psychoanalysis, gender studies, anthropology, and performance theory. The diversity of the essays in their methodologies and objects of study, none of which is privileged over any other, bespeaks the various types of drama and the numerous ways we can study them.
Author : Harold Walter Lawton
Publisher : Westport, Conn : Greenwood Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UVA:X000202039
Author : Arthur Tilley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107505568
First published in 1904, this book forms part of a two-volume set examining the development of literature during the French Renaissance. Taken together, the volumes cover the period 1525 to 1605, incorporating detailed information on numerous works and key literary figures, beginning with Francis I and his court and moving through to Mathurin Régnier. Both volumes were written by the renowned Cambridge literary critic and classicist Arthur Tilley (1851-1942). These books will be of value to anyone with an interest in French literature and the Renaissance.
Author : Arthur Phillips Stabler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : English drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038729260
Author : Antoine de Montchrestien
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474247474
Antoine de Montchrestien's tragedies have been the object of increased critical attention over the years. This annotated edition makes two of his most interesting plays available – Hector, often recognised as one of the masterpieces of French regular rhetorical tragedy, and La Reine d'Escosse, a showcase of Montchrestien's concept of tragedy.
Author : Jennifer H. Oliver
Publisher : Oxford Modern Languages & Lite
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198831709
In the sixteenth century, a period of proliferating transatlantic travel and exploration, and, latterly, religious civil wars in France, the ship is freighted with political and religious, as well as poetic, significance; symbolism that reaches its height when ships--both real and symbolic--are threatened with disaster. The Direful Spectacle argues that, in the French Renaissance, shipwreck functions not only as an emblem or motif within writing, but as a part, or the whole, of a narrative, in which the dynamics of spectatorship and of co-operation are of constant concern. The possibility of ethical distance from shipwreck--imagined through the Lucretian suave mari magno commonplace--is constantly undermined, not least through a sustained focus on the corporeal. This book examines the ways in which the ship and the body are made analogous in Renaissance shipwreck writing; bodies are described and allegorized in nautical terms, and, conversely, ships themselves become animalized and humanized. Secondly, many texts anticipate that the description of shipwreck will have an affect not only on its victims, but on those too of spectators, listeners, and readers. This insistence on the physicality of shipwreck is also reflected in the dynamic of bricolage that informs the production of shipwreck texts in the Renaissance. The dramatic potential of both the disaster and the process of rebuilding is exploited throughout the century, culminating in a shipwreck tragedy. By the late Renaissance, shipwreck is not only the end, but often forms the beginning of a story.
Author : Donald Perret
Publisher : Librairie Droz
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : French drama
ISBN : 2600036903
Author : Michael Meere
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780192844132
Studies the representation of violence in tragedies written for the French stage during the sixteenth century, and explores its connection with issues such as politics, religion, gender, and militantism to place the plays within their historical, cultural, and theatrical contexts.
Author : Donald Stone
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : France
ISBN : 0719005671
In this, the first study of its kind to appear in English, the author - a professor of Romance Languages at Harvard University - discusses the concepts which determined the nature and function of French humanist tragedy and the importance of those concepts with regard to the genre's relationship to medieval, ancient and French classical drama. The emphasis on conceptual rather than formal considerations reveals strong ties between tragedy and other sixteenth century genres, now largely neglected. The book also shows that the formal changes in tragedy introduced by the humanists are less consequential than once thought, and in his last chapter suggests that a deeper appreciation of the character of French humanist tragedy can shed new light on the coming of classicism.
Author : Geoffrey Brereton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000579017
Originally published in 1973, the history of French tragedy and tragicomedy from their origins in the sixteenth century to the last years of Louis XIV’s reign is here surveyed in a single volume. Beginning with a brief account of the development of drama from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, Dr Brereton examines the plays as types of drama, the circumstances in which they were produced and their reception by contemporaries. The traditionally great figures of Corneille and Racine are treated at some length, but their work is seen in perspective against the plays of their predecessors and of their own time. Garnier and Montchrestien are discussed, among others, as notable writers of Renaissance humanist tragedy. Sections are devoted to secondary but still important dramatists such as Mairet, Rotrou, Du Ryer, Tristan L’Hermite, Thomas Corneille and Quinault. A long chapter on Alexandre Hardy reviews the work of this neglected author and stresses his interest as a transitional link between the two centuries and as a vigorous pioneer of a type of drama which flourished for several decades after him concurrently with French ‘classical’ tragedy. The main currents of critical theory, social attitudes and stage history are described in their relation to the development of the drama. Well over a hundred plays are discussed or summarized; and the author has constantly referred back to the original material and has avoided an over-simplification of a vast subject which contains more exceptions and anomalies than has generally been recognized in the past. Chronological tables of the works of major dramatists, summaries of numerous plays and a bibliography containing modern editions of plays are included.
Author : Harold Walter Lawton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:901677036
Author : Cora Dietl,Lofton L Durham ,Jody Enders ,Garrett PJ Epp ,Christina M Fitzgerald ,Elina Gertsman ,Anne G Graham ,Lisa Hopkins ,Pamela M King ,David Klausner ,Jelle Koopmans ,Katell Lavéant ,Ben Parsons ,Carol Symes
Publisher : First Circle Publishing
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-22
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780991976010
ROMARD is an academic journal devoted to the study and promotion of Medieval and Renaissance drama in Europe. Previously published under the title of Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama (RORD), the journal has been in publication since 1956. ROMARD is published annually at the University of Western Ontario. Manuscripts are submitted to the Editor, Mario Longtin, via email at [email protected]. For further details, please visit the ROMARD website at www.romard.org. Special Issue: Showcasing Opportunities Co-Edited by Jill Stevenson and Mario Longtin This volume consists of fourteen short essays, all tackling different aspects of drama observed through a variety of disciplines, theoretical perspectives, and/or methodologies. We asked contributors to begin their pieces by introducing a new critical approach, a new methodology, a specific problem in the field, or an operative link between disciplines that fosters productive connections. In some cases, this framing concept introduces a new concept, methodology, or theoretical approach to the field of early drama studies. In other instances, authors invite readers to reconsider an existing topic or theme from a new perspective. We further asked contributors to select one specific example from early drama and to analyze it critically, but briefly, in order to illustrate their framing concept. We encouraged authors to be bold and, in some cases, to leave questions unresolved. Consequently, this special issue of ROMARD aims to advance the study of early drama by capturing research and ideas in the making.
