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Author | : Louis Auchincloss |
Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781570031229 |
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In a charming collection of elegant essays, one of the twentieth century's leading men of letters turns his vast knowledge and worldly authority to the texts of two seventeenth-century French dramatists. Louis Auchincloss considers sixteen plays by Pierre Corneille (1606-84) and his younger theatrical rival, Jean Racine (1639-99). Musing on the ideas that informed the court of the Sun King and on what classical allusions meant to them, Auchincloss offers thoughtful readings, new translations, and a wealth of shrewd observations about French classic tragedy, passion, self-sacrifice, self-aggrandizement, and civic and military glory. Auchincloss lets the grand voices of Corneille's and Racine's heroes and heroines speak, while calling attention to details and discoveries that illumine aspects of both seventeenth-century and twentieth-century culture. He specifically considers the theme of gloire - the lofty destiny or mission that the hero (and more rarely the heroine) has set for himself and for which he would willingly sacrifice the most passionate romance, closest friendship, or dearest family ties. While gloire is more commonly associated with Corneille than with Racine, Auchincloss demonstrates that these French masters were capable of swapping predilections when it came to the Roman plays.
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Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1924 |
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Author | : George Colman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 634 |
Release | : 2019-07-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0429602928 |
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Originally composed and published in 1981, this second book makes up two volumes of the plays of George Colman the Younger. Versatile, industrious, talented, Goerge Colman the Younger (1762-1836) followed Sheridan as England's most popular playwright. He wrote not only monologues, farces, pantomimes, comic operas, and straight comedies, but also hybrid three-act anticipations of melodrama.
Author | : Hugh Percy Jones |
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Total Pages | : 560 |
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Author | : Serge Leclerc |
Publisher | : Рипол Классик |
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Release | : 1808 |
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