Author: John FordPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719015335
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
The Lover's Melancholy
Author: John FordPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719015335
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
The Lover's Melancholy
Author: John FordPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Ford wrote darkly about sexual and political passion, thwarted ambition, and incest. This selection also shows his ability to portray the poignancy of love as well as to write entertaining comedy and creat concincing roles for women. His Annabella, Hippolita, Pentea, Calantha, and KatherinrGordon rank among the most dramatically powerful female characters on the post-Shakespearean stage. Setting Ford's earliest surviving independently-written play, The Lover's Melancholy, alongside his three best-known works, this edition includes an introduction with sections on each play addressing gender issues, modern relevance, and staging possibilities. Under the General editorship ofMichael Cordner, of the University of York, the texts of the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation, supplemented by detailed annotation.
The Lovers Melancholy
Author: John FordIntroduction by Gifford. List of plays. Commendatory verses. The lover's melancholy. 'Tis pity she's a whore. The broken heart
Author: John FordThe Lovers Melancholy. [A Tragi-comedy, in Five Acts and Chiefly in Verse.].
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Author: John FordDepression and Melancholy, 1660-1800 vol 4
Author: Leigh Wetherall DicksonPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040248837
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
As a psychiatric term ‘depression’ dates back only as far as the mid-nineteenth century. Before then a wide range of terms were used: ‘melancholy’ carried enormous weight, and was one of the two confirmed forms of eighteenth-century insanity. This four-volume set is the first large-scale study of depression across an extensive period.
Introduction by Gifford. List of plays. Commendatory verses. The lover's melancholy. 'Tis pity she's a whore. The broken heart
Author: John FordThe lovers melancholy
Author: John FordThe Beauty of Melancholy and British Women Writers, 1670-1720
Author: Laura AlexanderPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527543560
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
This book considers melancholy language in representative works by several British women writers in late Stuart England. To understand how these women writers understood and reframed the discussion about melancholy and women’s experience of suffering in their art, it turns to the twentieth-century French feminist theorist Julia Kristeva, whose radical work on melancholy in Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia (1989) provides an alternative psychoanalytic perspective for considering melancholy discourse created by women experiencing alienation, depression, and anguish in earlier periods. Kristeva offers a theoretical lens for understanding loss as a significant and ongoing perspective on life experience that finds expression through art and language. This text argues that early women writers created a new expressive mode, revising existing models to account for their own losses during a time of cultural and political transitioning in England. These writers provide a melancholy aesthetic in their works or depict depressed female figures reflecting artistic angst and a new discourse within language for articulating pain.
Melancholy
Author: László F. Földényi (Foldenyi)Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300220693
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Alberto Manguel praises the Hungarian writer László Földényi as “one of the most brilliant essayists of our time.” Földényi’s extraordinary Melancholy, with its profusion of literary, ecclesiastical, artistic, and historical insights, gives proof to such praise. His book, part history of the term melancholy and part analysis of the melancholic disposition, explores many centuries to explore melancholy’s ambiguities. Along the way Földényi discovers the unrecognized role melancholy may play as a source of energy and creativity in a well-examined life. Földényi begins with a tour of the history of the word melancholy, from ancient Greece to the medieval era, the Renaissance, and modern times. He finds the meaning of melancholy has always been ambiguous, even paradoxical. In our own times it may be regarded either as a psychic illness or a mood familiar to everyone. The author analyzes the complexities of melancholy and concludes that its dual nature reflects the inherent tension of birth and mortality. To understand the melancholic disposition is to find entry to some of the deepest questions one’s life. This distinguished translation brings Földényi’s work directly to English-language readers for the first time.