The Dramatic Technique of Antoine de Montchrestien
Author: Richard Griffiths
Publisher: Oxford [Eng.] : Clarendon Press
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13:
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The Dramatic Technique of Antoine de Montchrestien
The Dramatic Technique of Antoine de Montchrestien
Author: Richard Griffiths
Publisher: Oxford [Eng.] : Clarendon Press
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 266
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Tragic Histories of Mary Queen of Scots, 1560-1690
Author: John D. Staines
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-12-05
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 1351881027
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author John Staines here argues that sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writers in England, Scotland, and France wrote tragedies of the Queen of Scots - royal heroine or tyrant, martyr or whore - in order to move their audiences towards political action by shaping and directing the passions generated by the spectacle of her fall. In following the retellings of her history from her lifetime through the revolutions and political experiments of the seventeenth century, this study identifies two basic literary traditions of her tragedy: one conservative, sentimental, and royalist, the other radical, skeptical, and republican. Staines provides new readings of Spenser and Milton, as well as of early modern dramatists, to compile a comprehensive study of the writings about this important historical and literary figure. He charts developments in public rhetoric and political writing from the Elizabethan period through the Restoration, using the emotional representations of the life of this tragic woman and queen to explore early modern experiments in addressing and moving a public audience. By exploring the writing and rewriting of the tragic histories of the Queen of Scots, this book reveals the importance of literature as a force in the redefinition of British political life between 1560 and 1690.
French Sacred Drama from Bèze to Corneille
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.
Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880
Author: Julie Stone Peters
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9780199262168
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume explores the impact of printing on the European theatre in the period 1480-1880 and shows that the printing press played a major part in the birth of modern theatre.
Rhetoric and Drama
Author: DS Mayfield
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2017-03-06
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 3110484668
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Proving fruitful in various applications throughout its two millennia of predominance, the rhetorical téchne appears to have entertained a particularly symbiotic interrelation with drama. With contributions from (among others) a Classicist, historical, linguistic, musicological, operatic, cultural and literary studies perspective, this publication offers interdisciplinary assessments of specific reciprocities between the system of rhetoric and dramatic works: tracing the longue durée of this nexus—highlighting its Ancient foundations, its various Early Modern formations, as well as certain configurations enduring to this day—enables describing shifting degrees of rhetoricity; approaching it from an interdisciplinary viewpoint facilitates focusing on the often sidelined rhetorical phenomena located beyond the textual plane, specifically memoria and actio; tackling this interchange from various viewpoints and with diverse emphases, a long-lasting and highly prolific cross-fertilization between drama and rhetoric is rendered visible. In tendering a balanced panorama of both detailed case studies and descriptive overviews, this volume also points toward terrain yet to be charted in the scholarship to come. The volume was prepared in co-operation with the ERC Advanced Grant Project Early Modern European Drama and the Cultural Net (DramaNet).
French Renaissance and Baroque Drama
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.
French Humanist Tragedy
Author: Donald Stone
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780719005671
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this, the first study of its kind to appear in English, the author - a professor of Romance Languages at Harvard University - discusses the concepts which determined the nature and function of French humanist tragedy and the importance of those concepts with regard to the genre's relationship to medieval, ancient and French classical drama. The emphasis on conceptual rather than formal considerations reveals strong ties between tragedy and other sixteenth century genres, now largely neglected. The book also shows that the formal changes in tragedy introduced by the humanists are less consequential than once thought, and in his last chapter suggests that a deeper appreciation of the character of French humanist tragedy can shed new light on the coming of classicism.
Onstage Violence in Sixteenth-Century French Tragedy
Author: Michael Meere
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2022-01-13
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 019284413X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Studies the representation of violence in tragedies written for the French stage during the sixteenth century, and explores its connection with issues such as politics, religion, gender, and militantism to place the plays within their historical, cultural, and theatrical contexts.
