Author: Margaret Leah JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Beaumarchais and His Opponents
Author: Margaret Leah JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Beaumarchais and the Theatre
Author: William D. HowarthPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134985916
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
William D Howarth sets Le Mariage de Figaro and Beaumarchais's other dramatic works in the broad historical context of pre-revolutionary France, providing a unique and authoritative study of the dramatist and his plays. He presents detailed analyses of the plays themselves, discussing their critical receptions, their influence on drama of the period and their legacy. Included is a discussion of the operatic adaptations: Mozart's Mariage de Figaro and Rossini's Le Barbier de Seville. The author also provides analyses of sketches and fragments only recently re-discovered. Beaumarchais and the Theatre is a comprehensive and much needed study of one of the most significant playwrights of the turbulent eighteenth century. It is invaluable reading for students of theatre history.
Beaumarchais and the American Revolution
Author: Blanche Evans HazardBeaumarchais
Author: Albert Emil BrachvogelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
The Life of Louis XVI
Author: John HardmanPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300221657
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
A thought-provoking, authoritative biography of one of history’s most maligned rulers: France’s Louis XVI “The definitive contribution to our understanding of Louis XVI as a man and a monarch.”—P. M. Jones, English Historical Review “Monumental. . . . Scholars probing the mysteries of the late Old Regime and French Revolution will be working in its shadow for many years to come.”—Thomas E. Kaiser, Journal of Modern History Louis XVI of France, who was guillotined in 1793 during the Revolution and Reign of Terror, is commonly portrayed in fiction and film either as a weak and stupid despot in thrall to his beautiful, shallow wife, Marie Antoinette, or as a cruel and treasonous tyrant. Historian John Hardman disputes both these versions in a fascinating new biography of the ill-fated monarch. Based in part on new scholarship that has emerged over the past two decades, Hardman’s illuminating study describes a highly educated ruler who, though indecisive, possessed sharp political insight and a talent for foreign policy; who often saw the dangers ahead but could not or would not prevent them; and whose great misfortune was to be caught in the violent center of a major turning point in history. Hardman’s dramatic reassessment of the reign of Louis XVI sheds a bold new light on the man, his actions, his world, and his policies, including the king’s support for America’s War of Independence, the intricate workings of his court, the disastrous Diamond Necklace Affair, and Louis’s famous dash to Varennes.
Beaumarchais
Author: Joseph SungolowskyPublisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The History of French Literature from the Oath of Strasburg to Chanticler
Author: Annie Lemp KontaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Beaumarchais
Author: Brian N. MortonThe Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics
Author: Kody W. CooperPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 100909811X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
There has been a considerable amount of literature in the last 70 years claiming that the American founders were steeped in modern thought. This study runs counter to that tradition, arguing that the founders of America were deeply indebted to the classical Christian natural-law tradition for their fundamental theological, moral, and political outlook. Evidence for this thesis is found in case studies of such leading American founders as Thomas Jefferson and James Wilson, the pamphlet debates, the founders' invocation of providence during the revolution, and their understanding of popular sovereignty. The authors go on to reflect on how the founders' political thought contained within it the resources that undermined, in principle, the institution of slavery, and explores the relevance of the founders' political theology for contemporary politics. This timely, important book makes a significant contribution to the scholarly debate over whether the American founding is compatible with traditional Christianity.
Our Dramatic Heritage: Classical drama and the early Renaissance
Author: Philip George HillPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838631065
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
A multi-volume series that surveys European drama from ancient Greece to the mid-twentieth century.