Immanence and Transcendence; the Theater of Jean Rotrou, 1609-1650
Author: Robert James Nelson
Publisher: [Columbus] : Ohio State University Press
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert James Nelson
Publisher: [Columbus] : Ohio State University Press
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert J. Nelson
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Published: 2015-12-18
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780814253434
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Jean Rotrou is France's neglected classic. Generations of critics have recognized his merits but have done so in a tangential manner. He has been called the "mentor of Corneille" and has been celebrated as the precursor of Racine in classical tragedy and of Moliere in classical comedy. That Routrou can be linked to all three of France's great classical dramatists has been responsible in part for the respectful neglect of the thirty-five of his plays that have survived from a production assumed to be many times as great. Mr. Nelson turns to Rotrou in the dramatist's own setting: the perfervid philosophical and religious atmosphere of the first half of the seventeenth century, a period presumed by some scholars to have prepared the age of Racine, that dramatist of transcendence, in the specifically religious sense, who sees the things of this world as signs of man's dissociation from the Divine Ground of Being. Yet this current of "Le Dieu Cache" was not dominant in the century; a strong belief in "Le Dieu Visible"-an "immanentist current," so to speak-made itself felt in both formal religious writing and in imaginative literature of the period. Indeed, if Racine was by tendency the dramatist of transcendence, so his great rival, Corneille, might be thought of as the dramatist of immanence. An elaborate expression of both tendencies is to be found in Rotrou, to whose dramatic example both Corneille and Racine turned at various moments of their careers. Profoundly preoccupied with the relation between the human and the divine, Rotrou's theater of sacrament and sacrilege demonstrates the continuity of, as well as the disparity between, Christianity and the classical heritage. Robert J. Nelson is professor of French at the University of Illinois, Urbana."
Author: Leonie Pawlita
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2019-09-02
Total Pages: 839
ISBN-13: 3110660547
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume considers the influential revival of ancient philosophical skepticism in the 16th and early 17th centuries and investigates, from a comparative perspective, its reception in early modern English, Spanish and French drama, dedicating detailed readings to plays by Shakespeare, Calderón, Lope de Vega, Rotrou, Desfontaines, and Cervantes. While all the plays employ similar dramatic devices for "putting skepticism on stage", the study explores how these dramas, however, give different "answers" to the challenges posed by skepticism in relation to their respective historico-cultural and "ideological" contexts.
Author: J. S. Street
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1983-08-25
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 0521245370
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This 1983 book is a comprehensive study of the French sacred theatre at the crucial transition from medieval to modern conception of theatre.
Author: Bruno Forment
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9058679004
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Will appeal to all music, literature, and art lovers seeking to deepen their knowledge of an increasingly popular repertoire.
Author: Joseph Harris
Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9783823361145
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Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 1830
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: H. Gaston Hall
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 1983-02-01
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9780815622758
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Author: Mary Ann Frese Witt
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 1611475384
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Metatheater and Modernity: Baroque and Neobaroque is the first work to link the study of metatheater with the concepts of baroque and neobaroque. Arguing that the onset of European modernity in the early seventeenth century and both the modernist and the postmodernist periods of the twentieth century witnessed a flourishing of the phenomenon of theater that reflects on itself as theater, the author reexamines the concepts of metatheater, baroque, and neobaroque through a pairing and close analysis of seventeenth and twentieth century plays. The comparisons include Jean Rotrou's The True Saint Genesius with Jean-Paul Sartre's Kean and Jean Genet's The Blacks; Pierre Corneille's L'Illusion comique with Tony Kushner's The Illusion; Gian Lorenzo Bernini's The Impresario with Luigi Pirandello's theater-in-theater trilogy; Shakespeare's Hamlet with Pirandello's Henry IV and Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead; Moli re's Impromptu de Versailles with "impromptus" by Jean Cocteau, Jean Giraudoux, and Eug ne Ionesco. Metatheater and Modernity also examines the role of technology in the creating and breaking of illusions in both centuries. In contrast to previous work on metatheater, it emphasizes the metatheatrical role of comedy. Metatheater, the author concludes, is both performance and performative: it accomplishes a perceptual transformation in its audience both by defending theater and exposing the illusory quality of the world outside.