Author: Maurice BaudinPublisher:
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Category : Characters and characteristics in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
The Profession of King in Seventeenth-century French Drama
Author: Maurice BaudinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Characters and characteristics in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
A History of French Dramatic Literature in the Seventeenth Century: Recapitulation, 1610-1700. 1 v
Author: Henry Carrington LancasterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French drama
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Philippe Quinault, Dramatist
Author: William BrooksPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039115334
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Much work has been done in recent years on Quinault's librettos, but no major study of his spoken plays has appeared since the monumental thesis by Etienne Gros, published in 1926. Moreover, he has never been the subject of a monograph in English. There is a need to re-assess the influence of his life on his plays, and to re-evaluate Gros's findings in the light of eighty years' research into seventeenth-century French theatre in general. This book rejects the deterministic approach that sees his plays as apprentice pieces for the greater achievement that is his corpus of librettos, as well as the implicit comparative approach that pigeon-holes his work, in passing, by borrowing from the pithy judgements of Boileau. To what extent does Quinault's steady move away from comedy and light tragi-comedy to tragedies that combine love and menace go hand in hand with his search for greater integrity, better characterisation, and ever more credible plotting? How did he come to create and retain a tremendously faithful audience that even the withering mockery of Boileau failed to discourage? And is there any purpose in retaining the time-worn comparison between the author of Andromaque and the author of Astrate?
A History of French Dramatic Literature in the Seventeenth Century ...
Author: Henry Carrington LancasterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French drama
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Ruling Women, Volume 2
Author: Derval ConroyPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137568488
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Ruling Women is a two-volume study devoted to an analysis of the conflicting discourses concerning government by women in seventeenth-century France. In this second volume, Configuring the Female Prince in Seventeenth-Century French Drama, Conroy analyzes over 30 plays published between 1637 and 1691, examining the range of constructions of queenship that are thrown into relief. The analysis focuses on the ways in which certain texts strive to manage the cultural anxiety produced by female rule and facilitate the diminution of the uneasy cultural reality it represents, while others dramatize the exercise of political virtue by women, explode the myth of gender-differentiated sexual ethics, and suggest alternative constructions of gender relations to those upheld by the normative discourses of sexual difference. The approach is underpinned by an understanding of theatre as fundamentally political, a cultural institution implicated in the maintenance of, and challenge to, societal power relations. Innovative and stimulating, Conroy’s work will appeal to scholars of seventeenth-century drama and history of ideas, in addition to those interested in the history of women in political thought and the history of feminism.
Seventeenth-century French Drama
Author: John LoughPublisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
A Critical Bibliography of French Literature: The seventeenth century; ed. by N. Edelman
Author: David Clark CabeenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
A Critical Bibliography of French Literature: The seventeenth century
Author: David Clark CabeenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
French Painting in the Seventeenth Century
Author: Alain MérotPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300065507
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Recent studies and exhibitions, combined with the discovery of work by hitherto little-known artists have enabled Merot to take a fresh look at the period and to suggest a new configuration. The great names of the period - Poussin, Vouet, Le Sueur, de La Tour, Mignard - are located in relation to other developments. Merot includes discussion of the impact of contemporary literature and political, philosophical and social influences. The foundation of the Royal Academy of Painting in 1648, and the influence of Mazarin on artistic developments are considered with other issues of status, patronage and connoisseurship. The book provides a panorama of the period; the text is profusely illustrated in colour, and accompanied by a comprehensive bibliography.
Relations & Relationships in Seventeenth-century French Literature
Author: Jennifer Robin PerlmutterPublisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN: 9783823362210
Category : Families in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
This volume is devoted to the variety of relationships that defined France and ist citizens. Man's connection with God is explored, the travel raelation and the particular hierarchy that exists between a director and a dramatist, respectively. These themes are further addressed in the articles that follow on relationships of authority, Catholics and Protestants, books and Illustrations, literary genres, travel relations, aesthetics and ethics and family relationships.