Author: Pierre CorneillePublisher:
ISBN: 9780742692930
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Rodogune, Princesse Des Parthes, Tragedie
Author: Pierre CorneillePublisher:
ISBN: 9780742692930
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The Hamburg Dramaturgy by G.E. Lessing
Author: Natalya BaldygaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135099278
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
While eighteenth-century playwright and critic Gotthold Ephraim Lessing made numerous contributions in his lifetime to the theater, the text that best documents his dynamic and shifting views on dramatic theory is also that which continues to resonate with later generations – the Hamburg Dramaturgy (Hamburgische Dramaturgie, 1767–69). This collection of 104 short essays represents one of the eighteenth century’s most important critical engagements with the theater and its potential to promote humanistic discourse. Lessing’s essays are an immensely erudite, deeply engaged, witty, ironic, and occasionally scathing investigation of European theatrical culture, bolstered by deep analysis of Aristotelian dramatic theory and utopian visions of theater as a vehicle for human connection. This is the first complete English translation of Lessing's text, with extensive annotations that place the work in its historical context. For the first time, English-language readers can trace primary source references and link Lessing’s observations on drama, theory, and performance not only to the plays he discusses, but also to dramatic criticism and acting theory. This volume also includes three introductory essays that situate Lessing’s work both within his historical time period and in terms of his influence on Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment theater and criticism. The newly translated Hamburg Dramaturgy will speak to dramaturgs, directors, and humanities scholars who see theater not only for entertainment, but also for philosophical and political debate.
Catalogue of the Barton Collection
Author: Boston Public Library. Barton CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
The Style of the State in French Theater, 1630–1660
Author: Katherine IbbettPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351881418
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Engaging with recent thinking about performance, political theory and canon formation, this study addresses the significance of the formal changes in seventeenth-century French theater. Each chapter takes up a particularity of seventeenth-century theatrical style and staging”for example, the clearing of violence from the stage”and shows how the conceptualization of these French stylistic shifts appropriates a rich body of Italian political writing on questions of action, temporality, and law. The theater's appropriation of political concerns and vocabularies, the author argues, proffers an astute reflection on the practices of government that draws attention to questions obscured in reason of state, such as the instrumentalization of women's bodies. In a new reading of tragedies about government, the author shows how the canonical figure of Pierre Corneille is formally engaged with the political strategizing he often appears to repudiate, and in so doing challenges a literary history that has read neoclassicism largely as a display of pure French style.
Théàtre de Pierre de Thomas Corneille
Author: Pierre CorneilleCatalogue of the Miscellaneous Portion of the Barton Collection
Author: Boston Public Library. Barton CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
The Eighteenth-century Woman
Author: Olivier BernierPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870992945
Category : Art, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Rodogune, princesse de Parthes
Author: The Nation
Author: Rodogune
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.