Author: Clifton Cherpack
Publisher:
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Category : French drama (Tragedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Author: C.J. Gossip
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349045187
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 201

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Author: Marshall Brown
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822322672
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Essays on eighteenth-century literature from MLQ.

Author: William Brooks
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039115334
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 518

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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?

Author: Lacy Lockert
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 9780826510495
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 540

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This unique volume contains studies not only of Corneille's and Racine's tragedies but also of the best work of the lesser French-classical tragic dramatists, too generally neglected, to whom more than half of the book is devoted. Its author brings to his tasks of presentation, criticism, and appraisal a wider acquaintance, perhaps, with the drama of many lands and times than anyone who has previously written at any considerable length on the subject of French-classical tragedy. To the desirable perspective thus obtained, he joins an appreciation of good plays of every type, without prejudice either for or against any type of drama. Numerous, often lengthy, quoted passages (with an English verse translation accompanying the French in every case) exemplify the achievement and exhibit the qualities of the dramas and dramatists discussed. That portion of the author's critical work in this field which has already appeared, as introductions in his volumes of translated plays, has been much appreciated, as witness the following brief excerpts from reviews of those books: "The plays...are discussed with insight and enthusiasm."--(London) Notes and Queries. "Refreshingly original and yet free from specious pleading or naïve enthusiasm."--Chattanooga Times. "Thoughtful, discerning appraisals."--Seventeenth Century News. "An excellent critical introduction."--The Library Journal. "A judicious introduction."--Arthur Knodel in The Personalist. "The very best interpretative treatment of Corneille that has appeared."--C. Maxwell Lancaster.

Author: Eric Schliesser
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199928894
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 455

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This volume offers a historical overview of some of the most significant attempts to come to grips with sympathy in Western thought from Plato to experimental economics. The contributors are leading scholars in philosophy, classics, history, economics, comparative literature, and political science.

Author: Sylvie Romanowski
Publisher: Summa Publications, Inc.
ISBN: 9780917786983
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Author: Silvia Montiglio
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199916047
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267

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Love and Providence provides the first study of the recognition scene in Greek "romantic" novels and its significance in the ancient literary tradition.

Author: Louise George Clubb
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400874920
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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Although Renaissance scholars generally agree that Della Porta was the finest comic playwright of his generation in Italy, no detailed analysis of these plays and of their considerable influence outside Italy has previously appeared. One of the most famous men of his time in the field of scientific investigation, Della Porta wrote plays for relaxation and, on occasion, to camouflage controversial aspects of his scientific research from the Inquisitions. Today his works in science are largely forgotten and his right to fame rests on the plays. This book brings together the available facts of Della Porta's rich and often mysterious life and closely examines his dramatic works as part of the Italian literary scene in late Renaissance. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author: Susan Read Baker
Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN: 9783823346012
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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