Author: Jean RotrouPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Saint Genest
Author: Jean RotrouUnited States Board on Geographic Names: Gazetteer
Author: United States Board on Geographic NamesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Saint Genest; tragédie [in five acts, and in verse, by J. de Rotron].
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Author: Le Véritable Saint Genest
Author: Cynthia Osowiec RuoffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Saint Genest
Author: Jean RotrouFrench 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.
American Architect and the Architectural Review
Author: The American Architect
Author: Nuns Without Cloister
Author: Marguerite VacherPublisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 0761843426
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
Nuns Without Cloister explores one of the first and most innovative among the non-cloistered women's congregations established after the Council of Trent. Under the aegis of a Jesuit missionary, the first Sisters of St. Joseph envisioned a direct role for religious women in the secular society of mid-seventeenth century France and quietly broke the ecclesiastical and cultural barriers that opposed it. This book opens perspectives on the sisters' success through a politics of discretion and the introduction of creative variety in their lives in country parishes or in the urban orphanages, hospitals, and reformatories for fallen women of the ancien r gime. Vacher's methodology, comparing the congregation's theoretical, prescriptive documents with evidence about the actual life of these communities in southern France, leads to the question of whether and to what degree succeeding generations grasped the original inspiration. Sisters of St. Joseph preceding the French Revolution established a paradigm for the active, apostolic women's congregations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that supplied the workforce behind Catholic schools, colleges, hospitals, and orphanages in the United States, Canada, and elsewhere. In researching them, Nuns Without Cloister addresses a little understood but central dimension in the early modern foundations of contemporary Catholicism.
Lippincott's Pronouncing Gazetteer. ...
Author: Joseph ThomasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 2210
Book Description