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ISBN: 9781781881958
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Languages : en
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Pierre-laurent de Belloy, 'le Siege de Calais'
Author: Pierre-Laurent de Belloy, 'Le Siège de Calais'
Author: Logan J. ConnorsPublisher: MHRA
ISBN: 1781881308
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Le Siège de Calais, hailed by its author in 1765 as France’s ‘première tragédie nationale’, rolled into Paris like a storm. Pierre-Laurent de Belloy’s play about French bravery during the Hundred Years’ War (1337-1453) appeared on the heels of France’s defeat in the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763). Le Siège de Calais was performed throughout Europe and published numerous times during the second half of the eighteenth century. De Belloy emerged as a national hero, receiving prizes from Louis XV, accolades from the city of Calais, and membership to the prestigious Académie française. Since the French Revolution, however, the popularity of Le Siège de Calais has eclipsed, owing to its overt glorification of France’s royal machine. Several hundred years later, the play warrants a fresh look from a holistic perspective. De Belloy’s tragedy and the varied responses it provoked – many of which are included in this edition – offer complex representations of French political history and patriotic sentiment. Le Siège de Calais reveals conflicting images of gender roles, political debate and family values during the twilight of the Ancien régime; it also constituted one of the last moments when serious drama asserted its role as a popular force.
The Siege of Calais
Author: M. de Belloy (Pierre-Laurent Buyrette)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Calais (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Theater, War and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France and its Empire
Author: Logan ConnorsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009431218
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
The first study of French theater and war at a time of global revolutions, colonial violence, and radical social transformation.
The Shaping of French National Identity
Author: Matthew D'AuriaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107128099
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
Casts new light on of the 'official' French nineteenth-century narrative by examining how historians and philosophers conceived of the country's past.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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The Siege of Calais
Author: M. de Belloy (Pierre-Laurent Buyrette)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Calais (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 83
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Teaching French Neoclassical Tragedy
Author: Hélène E. BilisPublisher: Modern Language Association
ISBN: 1603295321
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Tragedy has been reborn many times since antiquity. Seventeenth-century French playwrights composed tragedies marked by neoclassical aesthetics and the divine-right absolutism of the Grand Siècle. But their works also speak to the modern imagination, inspiring reactions from Barthes, Derrida, and Foucault; adaptations and reworkings by Césaire and Kushner; and new productions by francophone and anglophone directors. This volume addresses both the history of French neoclassical tragedy--its audiences, performance practice, and development as a genre--and the ideas these works raise, such as necessity, free will, desire, power, and moral behavior in the face of limited choices. Essays demonstrate ways to teach the plays through a variety of lenses, such as performance, spectatorship, aesthetics, rhetoric, and affect. The book also explores postcolonial engagement, by writers and directors both in and outside France, with these works.
The Siege of Calais. A Tragedy. From the French of Mr. De Belloy. With Historical Notes
Author: M De BelloyPublisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
ISBN: 9781379449843
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T119184 Edited and translated by Charles Denis. Dublin: printed for J. Hoey sen., P. Wilson, J. Exshaw, S. Cotter, H. Saunders, E. Watts, W. Slator [sic, for Sleator], J. Potts, S. Watson, J. Williams, J. Hoey jun., and D. Chamberlaine, 1765. 70p.; 12°
A Field of Honor
Author: Gregory S. BrownPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231503655
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Gregory S. Brown's A Field of Honor: The Identities of Writers, Court Culture and Public Theater in the French Intellectual Field from Racine to the Revolution offers a multilevel study of the intellectual, social, and institutional contexts of dramatic authorship and the world of playwrights in 18th-century Paris. Brown deftly interweaves research in archival and printed materials, case studies of individual authorial strategies, the rich, often contentious historiography on the French Enlightenment and contemporary cultural theory and criticism. Drawing on a sophisticated array of recent studies, Brown positions his work against and between the grain of alternative approaches and interpretations. He combines scholarship on the history of the book with analyses of political culture and cultural identity, leaving the reader with a strong and revealing appreciation for the tensions and crosscurrents staged at the center of the 18th-century "republic of letters."