Author: William Brooks
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039115334
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Much work has been done in recent years on Quinault's librettos, but no major study of his spoken plays has appeared since the monumental thesis by Etienne Gros, published in 1926. Moreover, he has never been the subject of a monograph in English. There is a need to re-assess the influence of his life on his plays, and to re-evaluate Gros's findings in the light of eighty years' research into seventeenth-century French theatre in general. This book rejects the deterministic approach that sees his plays as apprentice pieces for the greater achievement that is his corpus of librettos, as well as the implicit comparative approach that pigeon-holes his work, in passing, by borrowing from the pithy judgements of Boileau. To what extent does Quinault's steady move away from comedy and light tragi-comedy to tragedies that combine love and menace go hand in hand with his search for greater integrity, better characterisation, and ever more credible plotting? How did he come to create and retain a tremendously faithful audience that even the withering mockery of Boileau failed to discourage? And is there any purpose in retaining the time-worn comparison between the author of Andromaque and the author of Astrate?
Philippe Quinault, Dramatist
Author: William Brooks
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039115334
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Much work has been done in recent years on Quinault's librettos, but no major study of his spoken plays has appeared since the monumental thesis by Etienne Gros, published in 1926. Moreover, he has never been the subject of a monograph in English. There is a need to re-assess the influence of his life on his plays, and to re-evaluate Gros's findings in the light of eighty years' research into seventeenth-century French theatre in general. This book rejects the deterministic approach that sees his plays as apprentice pieces for the greater achievement that is his corpus of librettos, as well as the implicit comparative approach that pigeon-holes his work, in passing, by borrowing from the pithy judgements of Boileau. To what extent does Quinault's steady move away from comedy and light tragi-comedy to tragedies that combine love and menace go hand in hand with his search for greater integrity, better characterisation, and ever more credible plotting? How did he come to create and retain a tremendously faithful audience that even the withering mockery of Boileau failed to discourage? And is there any purpose in retaining the time-worn comparison between the author of Andromaque and the author of Astrate?
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039115334
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Much work has been done in recent years on Quinault's librettos, but no major study of his spoken plays has appeared since the monumental thesis by Etienne Gros, published in 1926. Moreover, he has never been the subject of a monograph in English. There is a need to re-assess the influence of his life on his plays, and to re-evaluate Gros's findings in the light of eighty years' research into seventeenth-century French theatre in general. This book rejects the deterministic approach that sees his plays as apprentice pieces for the greater achievement that is his corpus of librettos, as well as the implicit comparative approach that pigeon-holes his work, in passing, by borrowing from the pithy judgements of Boileau. To what extent does Quinault's steady move away from comedy and light tragi-comedy to tragedies that combine love and menace go hand in hand with his search for greater integrity, better characterisation, and ever more credible plotting? How did he come to create and retain a tremendously faithful audience that even the withering mockery of Boileau failed to discourage? And is there any purpose in retaining the time-worn comparison between the author of Andromaque and the author of Astrate?
Philippe Quinault's Comedy The Indiscreet Lover
Author: Philippe Quinault
Publisher: Hicksville, N.Y. : Exposition Press
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher: Hicksville, N.Y. : Exposition Press
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Armida & Amadis & Roland
Author: Philippe Quinault
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434446735
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
In these three librettos, Philippe Quinault turns from classical opera to medieval legends--Renaud and Armida, Amadis and Oriana, and Angelica and Roland--exploring the tensions between love and glory. As usual, the dramatist relates his stories deftly with classic simplicity. In these adaptions of traditional medieval stories of romance, enchantment, monsters, and magic, either the heroine (Armida or Angelica) loves the hero she should hate, or the hero falls for an enemy enchantress, and has to be rescued from her clutches. The love "cure" is usually effected by means of magic or through the intervention of a fairy. Great entertainment from early French literature!
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434446735
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
In these three librettos, Philippe Quinault turns from classical opera to medieval legends--Renaud and Armida, Amadis and Oriana, and Angelica and Roland--exploring the tensions between love and glory. As usual, the dramatist relates his stories deftly with classic simplicity. In these adaptions of traditional medieval stories of romance, enchantment, monsters, and magic, either the heroine (Armida or Angelica) loves the hero she should hate, or the hero falls for an enemy enchantress, and has to be rescued from her clutches. The love "cure" is usually effected by means of magic or through the intervention of a fairy. Great entertainment from early French literature!
Psyche
Author: Molihre
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781406501711
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Large Format for easy reading. Depicts the pursuit of love that makes the world of the gods' go round, and the love story of Cupid and Psyche. A collaboration with Pierre Corneille and Philippe Quinault.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781406501711
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Large Format for easy reading. Depicts the pursuit of love that makes the world of the gods' go round, and the love story of Cupid and Psyche. A collaboration with Pierre Corneille and Philippe Quinault.
French Seventeenth-century Literature
Author: Bernard Bourque
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039115372
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This volume of essays explores influences from Antiquity onwards that shaped the literary and cultural output of the French seventeenth century and the developments to which this period - the so-called 'classical' period - gave rise in later centuries. The thirteen essays in English and French cover three major areas: the continuation in French seventeenth-century literature and cultural events of themes found in previous centuries; internal changes within the body of writings by French seventeenth-century playwrights; the influence of seventeenth-century French writers on later centuries. The collection celebrates the life and scholarly achievements of the eminent dix-septiémiste Christopher J. Gossip, Emeritus Professor of French, University of New England, Australia.
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039115372
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This volume of essays explores influences from Antiquity onwards that shaped the literary and cultural output of the French seventeenth century and the developments to which this period - the so-called 'classical' period - gave rise in later centuries. The thirteen essays in English and French cover three major areas: the continuation in French seventeenth-century literature and cultural events of themes found in previous centuries; internal changes within the body of writings by French seventeenth-century playwrights; the influence of seventeenth-century French writers on later centuries. The collection celebrates the life and scholarly achievements of the eminent dix-septiémiste Christopher J. Gossip, Emeritus Professor of French, University of New England, Australia.
Lully and Quinault
Author: Terrence D. Wright
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The Business of English Restoration Theatre, 1660–1700
Author: Deborah C. Payne
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009398210
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Deborah C. Payne explores how the duopoly of 1660 impacted company practices, stagecraft, the box office, and actors and writers.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009398210
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Deborah C. Payne explores how the duopoly of 1660 impacted company practices, stagecraft, the box office, and actors and writers.
Guide to the Crystal Palace and Park
Author: Samuel Phillips
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exhibitions
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exhibitions
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Guide to the Crystal Palace and park
Author: Samuel PHILLIPS (LL.D.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The Palace and Park
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exhibition buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exhibition buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description