Author: Pierre CorneillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 86
Book Description
Rodogune, princess des Parthes
Author: Pierre CorneilleRodogune princesse des Parthes
Author: Pierre CorneilleRodogune, Princesse des Parthes
Author: Pierre CorneillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French drama (Tragedy)
Languages : fr
Pages : 60
Book Description
Rodogune, princesse des parthes
Author: Pierre CorneilleRodogune
Author: Pierre CorneillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Tragedy by Pierre Corneille, first performed 1645, and remarkable for its powerful, if melodramatic, portrait of moral evil. The central character, Cléopâtre, queen of Syria, will sacrifice anything to retain power. Only she can decide between the rival claims of her twin sons, Antiochus and Séleucus, to inherit the throne; she promises her voice to whichever of the two will rid her of Rodogune, princess of Parthia, whose hand is destined to the new king. Both princes love Rodogune, but she confronts them with a terrible dilemma by promising love to whichever kills his mother. In desperation Cléopâtre kills Séleucus, the weaker of the twins, and prepares a poisoned cup for the wedding of Antiochus and Rodogune, but is forced into drinking it herself, and dies defiant. -- Answer.com.
Tragedy and the Return of the Dead
Author: John D LyonsPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810137119
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Early modernity rediscovered tragedy in the dramas and the theoretical writings of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Attempting to make new tragic fictions, writers like Shakespeare, Webster, Hardy, Corneille, and Racine created a dramatic form that would probably have been unrecognizable to the ancient Athenians. Tragedy and the Return of the Dead recovers a model of the tragic that fits ancient tragedies, early modern tragedies, as well as contemporary narratives and films no longer called “tragic” but which perpetuate the same elements. Authoritative, wide-ranging, and thought provoking, Tragedy and the Return of the Dead uncovers a set of interlocking plots of family violence that stretch from Greek antiquity up to the popular culture of today. Casting aside the elite, idealist view that tragedy manifests the conflict between two equal goods or the human struggle against the divine, John D. Lyons looks closely at tragedy’s staging of gory and painful deaths, ignominious burials, and the haunting return of ghosts. Through this adjusted lens Le Cid, Hamlet, Frankenstein, The Spanish Tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, Phèdre, Macbeth, and other early modern works appear in a striking new light. These works are at the center of a panorama that stretches from Aeschylus’s Agamemnon to Hitchcock’s Psycho and are placed against the background of the Gothic novel, Freud’s “uncanny,” and Burke’s “sublime.” Lyons demonstrates how tragedy under other names, such as “Gothic fiction” and “thrillers,” is far from dead and continues as a vital part of popular culture.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
Bibliography of Eighteenth Century Art and Illustrated Books
Author: J. LewineCatalogue of the Library of the City Library Association ...
Author: Springfield City Library Association (Springfield, Mass.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of Congress
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1250
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