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Author | : Donald Stone |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780719005671 |
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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 | : Donald Stone |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : 9780719005671 |
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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 | : Gillian Jondorf |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1990-10-25 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0521360145 |
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The principle aim of this 1990 book is to encourage readers to find pleasure in sixteenth-century tragedies.
Author | : Andrea Frisch |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2015-06-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0748694404 |
Download Forgetting Differences Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Examines the impact of the royal politics of amnesia on tragedy and national historiography in France, 1560-1630
Author | : Geoffrey Brereton |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2022-04-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1000579018 |
Download French Tragic Drama in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Michael Meere |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2022-01-13 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 019284413X |
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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 | : Robert Garnier |
Publisher | : Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780866986137 |
Download The Tragedy of Pious Antigone (1580) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Tragedy of Pious Antigone (1580) is the first English-language translation of Robert Garnier's Antigone, ou la Pieté. Written by France's earliest career tragedian, who also worked in the Paris Parliament and as a counselor at a judicial tribunal in the town of Le Mans, the play draws on various classical sources (especially Seneca, Statius, and Sophocles) to retell the well-known story of a family torn apart by war: as brothers Eteocles and Polynices fight to the death, their sister Antigone and mother Jocasta make repeated calls for peace. Originally published at the height of the French Wars of Religion (1562-1598) that pitted Catholics and Protestants against each other, the five acts of Garnier's play would have had immediate resonance. Neither extolling nor defending one side or the other, this humanist tragedy, which also anticipates the style of Corneille and Racine, could have been appreciated not only by members of one religious community or the other, but by both as a seemingly non-partisan and earnest lamentation about, and reflection upon, troubled times. This famous story, re-imagined by countless authors including Bertolt Brecht, Jean Anouilh, Griselda Gambaro, Athol Fugard, and many others, is here re-told to emphasize empowered female voices in times of political division.
Author | : Richard Hillman |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2013-07-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1847797814 |
Download French origins of English tragedy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Richard Hillman applies to tragic patterns and practices in early modern England his long-standing critical preoccupation with English-French cultural connections in the period. With primary, though not exclusive, reference on the English side to Shakespeare and Marlowe, and on the French side to a wide range of dramatic and non-dramatic material, he focuses on distinctive elements that emerge within the English tragedy of the 1590s and early 1600s. These include the self-destructive tragic hero, the apparatus of neo-Senecanism (including the Machiavellian villain) and the confrontation between the warrior-hero and the femme fatale. The broad objective is less to 'discover' influences – although some specific points of contact are proposed – than at once to enlarge and refine a common cultural space through juxtaposition and intertextual tracing. The conclusion emerges that the powerful, if ambivalent, fascination of the English for their closest Continental neighbours expressed itself not only in but through the theatre.
Author | : Gerald Sandy |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 593 |
Release | : 2002-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9047400631 |
Download The Classical Heritage in France Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book written by eighteen specialists deals with the reception of Greek and Latin culture in France in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It is intended for non-specialists interested in classical influences on French belles-lettres and visual arts.
Author | : Michael Meere |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2021-10-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0192658026 |
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The performance of violence on the stage has played an integral role in French tragedy since its inception. Onstage Violence in Sixteenth-Century French Tragedy is the first book to tell this story. It traces and examines the ethical and poetic stakes of violence, as playwrights were experimenting with the newly discovered genre during decades of religious and civil war (c. 1550-1598). The study begins with an overview of the origins of French vernacular tragedy and the complex relationships between violence, performance, ethics, and poetics. The volume focuses on specific plays and analyzes biblical, mythological, historical, and politically topical tragedies—including the stories of Cain and Abel, David and Goliath, Medea, the Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent, the Roman general Regulus, and the assassination of the Duke of Guise in 1588—to show how the multifarious uses of violence on stage shed light on a range of pressing issues during that turbulent time, such as religion, gender, politics, and militantism.