Author: Kenneth McKenziePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Francesco Griselini and His Relation to Goldoni and Molière
Author: Kenneth McKenzieFrancesco Griselini and His Relation to Goldoni and Molière
Author: Kenneth McKenzieThe Masons and the Mysteries in 18th Century Drama
Author: Matthew LeighPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110676354
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
The fathers of modern freemasonry sought a classical pedigree for their rituals and forms of association. This volume offers the first academic study of how freemasons writing in the first half of the 18th century deployed their knowledge of antiquity to bolster this claim and how the creative literature of the period reflected their ideas. The scholarly investigation of freemasonry is a relatively new phenomenon. The writings of active freemasons tend either to generate new masonic myths or to focus on the minutiae of insignia, rank, and ritual. Only in the last 50 years have non-masons given serious thought to freemasonry as a social practice and to its place within the intellectual and political life of Enlightenment Europe and beyond. Study of masonic elements in literary texts lags much further behind. This volume offers the first English translations of three mid-18th century comedies on female curiosity about this exclusively male order and shows how they reflect contemporary attempts to forge a link with ancient mystery cult. The theatrical aspect of masonic ritual and the ancient mysteries is examined in depth. This volume opens up important new ground in classical reception and 18th century theatre history.
The American Year Book
Author: MLN
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Provides image and full-text online access to back issues. Consult the online table of contents for specific holdings.
The Dramaturgy of the Spectator
Author: Tatiana KorneevaPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487532091
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The Dramaturgy of the Spectator explores how Italian theatre consciously adjusted to the emergence of a new kind of spectator who became central to society, politics, and culture in the mid-seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The author argues that while a focus on spectatorship in isolation has value, if we are to understand the broader stakes of the relationship between the power structures and the public sphere as it was then emerging, we must trace step-by-step how spectatorship as a practice was rooted in the social and cultural politics of Italy at the time. By delineating the evolution of the Italian theatre public, as well as the dramatic innovations and communicative techniques developed in an attempt to manipulate the relationship between spectator and performance, this book pioneers a shift in our understanding of audience as both theoretical concept and historical phenomenon.
Molière
Author: Harry AshtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dramatists, French
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature
Author: The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature Supplement
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
These vols. contain the same material as the early vols. of Social sciences & humanities index.