Author: Gustave MassonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French drama
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
French classics
Author: Gustave MassonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French drama
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
French classics: A selection of plays by Corneille, Molière, and Racine
Author: Gustave MassonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Four French Plays
Author: Jean RacinePublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141392096
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The 'greatest hits' of French classical theatre, in vivid and acclaimed new Penguin translations by John Edmunds and with editorial apparatus by Joseph Harris. The plays in this volume - Cinna, The Misanthrope, Andromache and Phaedra - span only thirty-seven years, but make up the defining period of French theatre. In Corneille's Cinna (1640), absolute power is explored in ancient Rome, while Molière's The Misanthrope (1666), the only comedy in this collection, sees its anti-hero outcast for his refusal to conform to social conventions. Here also are two key plays by Racine: Andromache (1667), recounting the tragedy of Hector's widow after the Trojan War, and Phaedre (1677), showing a mother crossing the bounds of love with her son. This translation of Phaedra was originally broadcast on Radio Three with a cast including Prunella Scales and Timothy West, and was praised by playwright Harold Pinter. This is the first time it has been published. The edition also includes an introduction by Joseph Harris, genealogical tables, pronunciation guides, critiques and prefaces, as well as a chronology and suggested further reading. After a varied career as an actor, teacher, and BBC TV national newsreader, John Edmunds became the founder-director of Aberystwyth University's department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies. Joseph Harris is Senior Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London and author of Hidden Agendas: Cross-Dressing in Seventeenth-Century France (2005).
French Classics. A selection of Plays by Corneille, Molière and Racine
Author: MolièreFrench Classics. A Selection of Plays by Corneille, Molière, and Racine. D
Author: Pierre CorneilleFrench Classics
Author: Gustave MassonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 375256380X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.
Orientalism in French Classical Drama
Author: Michèle LonginoPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521807210
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Michèle Longino examines the ways in which Mediterranean exoticism inflects the themes represented in French classical drama. Longino explores plays by Corneille, Molière and Racine; Le Cid, Médée, and Le bourgeois gentilhomme among others. She offers a consideration of the role the staging of the near Orient played in shaping a sense of French colonial identity. Drawing on histories, travel journals, memoirs and correspondence, and bringing together literary and historical concerns, Longino considers these dramatisations in the context of French-Ottoman relations at the time of their production.
French Classics ; a Selection of Plays by Corneille, Moliere and Racine
Author: Gustave MassonRacine and the French classical drama
Author: Marie Pauline Rose Blaze de Bury (baronne.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Five Classic French Plays
Author: Wallace FowliePublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048629790X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Treasury of theatrical masterpieces includes Corneille's "The Cid," Racine's "Phaedra, "Moliere s "The Intellectual Ladies," Marivaux's "The Game of Love and Chance," and Beaumarchais' "The Barber of Seville." Translations, introductions by noted scholar Wallace Fowlie."