Author: Harold Walter Lawton
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
Published: 2011-10-01
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9781258180577
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Published: 2011-07-01
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9781258077297
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Michael Meere
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2015-02-26
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1611495490
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The fifteen articles in this volume highlight the richness, diversity, and experimental nature of French and Francophone drama before the advent of what would become known as neoclassical French theater of the seventeenth century. In essays ranging from conventional stage plays (tragedies, comedies, pastoral, and mystery plays) to court ballets, royal entrances, and meta- and para-theatrical writings of the period from 1485 to 1640, French Renaissance and Baroque Drama: Text, Performance, Theory seeks to deepen and problematize our knowledge of texts, co-texts, and performances of drama from literary-historical, artistic, political, social, and religious perspectives. Moreover, many of the articles engage with contemporary theory and other disciplines to study this drama, including but not limited to psychoanalysis, gender studies, anthropology, and performance theory. The diversity of the essays in their methodologies and objects of study, none of which is privileged over any other, bespeaks the various types of drama and the numerous ways we can study them.
Author: Donald Perret
Publisher: Librairie Droz
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9782600036900
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Gillian Jondorf
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1990-10-25
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780521360142
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Gillian Jondorf challenges the traditional critical approaches to French Renaissance theater, reevaluating its literary merit and originality. She shows how playwrights of the sixteenth century actually achieved an originality by introducing classical themes, breaking with the medieval tradition of religious and morality plays. Whereas many critics have considered writers of French Renaissance drama as mere forerunners of the more famous seventeenth-century writers such as Molière or Racine, Jondorf argues that these plays should be seen as competent and skillfully-composed in their own right. This book will appeal to students of Renaissance literature and European drama, as well as those interested in questions of originality and literary influence.