The Passions In Play

Author : Alessandro Schiesaro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139440219

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The Passions in Play by Alessandro Schiesaro Pdf

This monograph is devoted to the most important of Seneca's tragedies, Thyestes, which has had a notable influence on Western drama from Shakespeare to Antonin Artaud. Thyestes emerges as the mastertext of 'Silver' Latin poetry, and as an original reflection on the nature of theatre comparable to Euripides' Bacchae. The book analyses the complex structure of the play, its main themes, the relationship between Seneca's vibrant style and his obsession with dark issues of revenge and regression. Substantial discussion of other plays - especially Trojan Women, Oedipus and Medea - permits a comprehensive re-evaluation of Seneca's poetics and its pivotal role in post-Virgilian literature. Topics explored include the relationship between Seneca's plays and his theory of the emotions, the connection between poetic inspiration and the Underworld, and Seneca's treatment of time, which, in a perspective informed by psychoanalysis, is seen as a central preoccupation of Senecan tragedy.

Author : Joanna Baillie
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001-02-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1551111853

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Plays on the Passions by Joanna Baillie Pdf

Baillie’s eminently readable dramas stand at the crossroads of the Scottish Enlightenment and early Romanticism, and compellingly engage with questions of women’s rights. Her exploration of the passions, first published in 1798, is here reissued with a wealth of contextual materials including “The Introductory Discourse,” Baillie’s own brand of feminist literary criticism. The three plays included here are “Count Basil: A Tragedy,” and “The Tryal: A Comedy,” which show love from opposing perspectives; and “De Monfort: A Tragedy,” which explores the drama of hate. Among other appendices, the Broadview edition includes materials on the contemporary philosophical understanding of the passions, and contemporary reviews. Baillie’s work is enjoying a revival of interest. She lived a long life, (1762-1851), and had a wide circle of literary friends including Maria Edgeworth and Sir Walter Scott (who termed her a “female Shakespeare”). Scottish born, she moved to England in her twenties where she then resided. Her Plays on the Passions, alternatively known as A Series of Plays in which it is Attempted to Delineate the Stronger Passions of the Mind—Each Passion being the Subject of a Tragedy and Comedy was produced in three volumes between 1798 and 1812. The first volume created quite a stir amongst the literary circles of London and Edinburgh when introduced anonymously. The speculation into the authorship concluded two years later when Baillie came forward as the writer of the collection, thereby causing a subsequent sensation since no one had considered the shy spinster a candidate in the mystery.

Author : Peter Lewis Duthie,Joanna Baillie
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Plays on the Passions by Peter Lewis Duthie,Joanna Baillie Pdf

"Baillie's eminently readable dramas stand at the crossroads of the Scottish Enlightenment and early Romanticism, and compellingly engage with questions of women's rights. Her exploration of the passions, first published in 1798, is here reissued with a wealth of contextual materials including "The Introductory Discourse," Baillie's own brand of feminist literary criticism. The three plays included here are "Count Basil : A Tragedy" and "The Tryal : A Comedy," which show love from opposing perspectives; and "De Monfort : A Tragedy," which explores the drama of hate. Among the appendices are materials on the contemporary philosophical understanding of the passions, and contemporary reviews."--Résumé de l'éditeur

Author : Lisbeth G. Séguin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Bavaria (Germany)
ISBN : BSB:BSB11563787

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The Country of the Passion-play by Lisbeth G. Séguin Pdf

Author : Henry George BLACKBURN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026240541

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Art in the Mountains: the Story of the Passion Play ... With Numerous Illustrations by Henry George BLACKBURN Pdf

Author : Frances Christina Baldwyn-Childe (formerly Childe.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000557663

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The English Words of the "passion Play," at Ober-Ammergau by Frances Christina Baldwyn-Childe (formerly Childe.) Pdf

Author : Anne Walbank Buckland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Oberammergau (Germany)
ISBN : BL:A0027025700

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Ober Ammergau and Its People, in Connection with the Passion Play and Miracle Plays in General, Etc by Anne Walbank Buckland Pdf

Author : John P. Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Ober-Ammergau passion play
ISBN : HARVARD:32044020339586

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The Ober-Ammerga Passion Play by John P. Jackson Pdf

Author : John Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BML:37001103883422

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The Ober-Ammergau Passion Play by John Jackson Pdf

Author : David Jonathan Hildner
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9789027217219

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Reason and the Passions in the Comedias of Calderón by David Jonathan Hildner Pdf

Both reason and exalted passions become the preserve of noble blood in Calderón's plays. The concern of his characters that they not commit a "low" action, is not simply a Christian concern with avoiding sin. The characters are much more concerned with practicing a virtue which will distinguish them from the vulgar.

Author : James Harriman-Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108835497

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Criticism, Performance and the Passions in the Eighteenth Century by James Harriman-Smith Pdf

Recovers eighteenth-century appreciation of transition as a critical tool for analysing the expression and reception of emotion in theatre.

Author : Charles Fourier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Emotions
ISBN : UOM:39015026436207

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The Passions of the Human Soul by Charles Fourier Pdf

Author : Charles Fourier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Emotions
ISBN : MINN:31951002024393K

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The Passions of the Human Soul and Their Influence on Society and Civilization... by Charles Fourier Pdf

Author : Rebecca Kingston,Leonard Ferry
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774858182

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Bringing the Passions Back In by Rebecca Kingston,Leonard Ferry Pdf

The rationalist ideal has been met with cynicism in progressive circles for undermining the role of emotion and passion in the public realm. By exploring the social and political implications of the emotions in the history of ideas, contributors examine new paradigms for liberalism and offer new appreciations of the potential for passion in political philosophy and practice. Bringing the Passions Back In draws upon the history of political theory to shed light on the place of emotions in politics; it illustrates how sophisticated thinking about the relationship between reason and passion can inform contemporary democratic political theory.

Author : Richard Evan Meyer
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892366761

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Representing the Passions by Richard Evan Meyer Pdf

Through an interlocking series of texts and images, this work explores how extreme sensations such as wonder, misery, ecstasy and rage have been portrayed at different moments in Western culture. Moving across multiple fields of creative endeavour and intellectual inquiry - from classical artefacts to Chicano art, political protest to operatic performance, Rene Descartes's writings on the soul to the Internet's digitised flesh - it reveals how the passions have elicited, eluded and transformed the act of representation.