Author: C.J. GossipPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349045187
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Introduction to French Classical Tragedy
Author: C.J. GossipPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349045187
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
An Introduction to the French Classical Drama
Author: Eleanor Frances JourdainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French drama
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Studies in French-classical Tragedy
Author: Lacy LockertPublisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 9780826510495
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
This unique volume contains studies not only of Corneille's and Racine's tragedies but also of the best work of the lesser French-classical tragic dramatists, too generally neglected, to whom more than half of the book is devoted. Its author brings to his tasks of presentation, criticism, and appraisal a wider acquaintance, perhaps, with the drama of many lands and times than anyone who has previously written at any considerable length on the subject of French-classical tragedy. To the desirable perspective thus obtained, he joins an appreciation of good plays of every type, without prejudice either for or against any type of drama. Numerous, often lengthy, quoted passages (with an English verse translation accompanying the French in every case) exemplify the achievement and exhibit the qualities of the dramas and dramatists discussed. That portion of the author's critical work in this field which has already appeared, as introductions in his volumes of translated plays, has been much appreciated, as witness the following brief excerpts from reviews of those books: "The plays...are discussed with insight and enthusiasm."--(London) Notes and Queries. "Refreshingly original and yet free from specious pleading or naïve enthusiasm."--Chattanooga Times. "Thoughtful, discerning appraisals."--Seventeenth Century News. "An excellent critical introduction."--The Library Journal. "A judicious introduction."--Arthur Knodel in The Personalist. "The very best interpretative treatment of Corneille that has appeared."--C. Maxwell Lancaster.
Studies in French-Classical Tragedy
Author: Charles Lacy LOCKERTPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Royal DisClosure
Author: Harriet Amy StonePublisher: Summa Publications, Inc.
ISBN: 9780917786570
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Chiefly treats Corneille and Racine.
An Introduction to the French Classical Drama
Author: Eleanor F. JourdainPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330337462
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Excerpt from An Introduction to the French Classical Drama If we assume with the large majority of French critics that the seventeenth century was the time in which French art most truly reflected the ideal qualities of the French nation as a whole, we shall be anxious to discover in the literature of that century what it is that marks it off from the pscudo-classical literature of the age of Anne in England, and why the Siede d'or is a truer epithet as applied to France than the 'Augustan age' as applied to England. It was, in the first place, the age of the greatest French dramatists : and it is not generally disputed that though the genius of the French can be expressed in beautiful and lucid prose, whether in the seventeenth-century 'period' or the freer, more pictured phrase of modern times, yet the drama offers to the French spirit its greatest opportunities. Perhaps one reason for this is to be seen in a consideration of the national temperament. In contrast to the genius of the Teuton, which tends to express the thought and emotion of the individual, the French mind tends to express in art and literature the thought and feeling of man as part of a society. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
An Introduction to the French Classical Drama
Author: Eleanor Frances JourdainPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781354659175
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
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An Introduction to the French Classical Drama
Author: Eleanor F. JourdainAn Introduction to the French Classical Drama
Author: Eleanor Frances JourdainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French drama
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
French Tragic Drama in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Author: Geoffrey BreretonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000579018
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
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.