Author: Theresa Varney KennedyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religious drama, French
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Françoise Pascal's Agathonphile Martyr, Tragi-comedie
Author: Theresa Varney KennedyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religious drama, French
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Women’s Deliberation: The Heroine in Early Modern French Women’s Theater (1650–1750)
Author: Theresa Varney KennedyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317153367
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Women’s Deliberation: The Heroine in Early Modern French Women’s Theater (1650–1750) argues that women playwrights question traditional views on women through their heroines. Denied the powers of cleverness, the authority of deliberation, and the right to speak, heroines were often excluded from central roles in plays by leading male playwrights from this period. Women playwrights, on the other hand, embraced the ideas necessary to expand the boundaries of female heroism. Heroines in plays from the mid-seventeenth through the mid-eighteenth centuries reflect a shift in mentalities toward rationality and female agency. I argue that the "deliberative heroine," emerging at the dawn of the eighteenth century, is the most fully developed, exuding all the characteristics of the modern-day heroine. Although she embodies many of the qualities of her heroine counterparts, she also responds to them. Only the deliberative heroine, based on Enlightenment ideals—such as women’s ability to rationalize and the complex interplay between reason and sentiment—truly liberates female characters from a history of traditional roles. Whereas other heroines act in accordance with social construct or on impulse, the "deliberative heroine" realizes the ideals of the seventeenth-century salons that petitioned for women to have "greater control over their own bodies" (DeJean 21). She is active, and her determination to follow through with her own line of reasoning—that involves both mind and heart—enables her to determine the outcome of events. In the end, this new generation of heroines ushered in an era where women playwrights could make their own contribution to dramatic works at the dawn of the Age of Enlightenment.
The Drama To-day
Author: Charlton AndrewsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
French Women Playwrights Before the Twentieth Century
Author: Cecilia BeachPublisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Until recently, French women playwrights had received almost no critical attention and their works were for the most part completely unknown, but this volume is evidence of the important contribution they have made to world literature. It presents an extensive list of the dramatic works of more than 400 French women playwrights from the 16th through 19th centuries and includes brief biographical information, as well as publication, performance, and availability information for nearly 3,000 plays. The volume includes authors who are relatively unknown, as well as more canonical names such as Marguerite de Navarre and George Sand. The book is divided into four chapters, each devoted to a particular century with authors listed alphabetically. Each entry includes basic biographical information about the author, such as pseudonyms, place and date of birth and death, professions or activities for which the author is known, and other genres in which the author wrote. Plays are listed chronologically under the author's name.
MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures
Author: Actes du 33e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature
Author: North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. ConferencePublisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN: 9783823355564
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : fr
Pages : 276
Book Description
A History of French Dramatic Literature in the Seventeenth Century
Author: Henry Carrington LancasterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French drama
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
A History of French Dramatic Literature in the Seventeenth Century ...: The period of Molière, 1652-1672. 2. v
Author: Henry Carrington LancasterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French drama
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
A History of French Dramatic Literature in the Seventeenth Century: The period of Molière, 1652-1972. 2 v
Author: Henry Carrington LancasterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French drama
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Dissertation Abstracts International
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description