Classical French Drama

Author : William Driver Howarth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521230131
Total Pages : 764 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book French Theatre in the Neo-classical Era, 1550-1789 written by William Driver Howarth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-06-05 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1997 book covers the period which saw the establishment in France of a centralized official theatre - not only the Comédie-Française (the first 'national' theatre), but an Italian theatre and a state opera; the often subversive independent theatres are also discussed. Nearly 1,000 documents deal with censorship and other aspects of external control, company management, the acting profession, dramatic theory and criticism, theatre architecture, settings and costumes, audience composition and behaviour. Over 120 pictorial documents - architectural drawings, technical engravings, frontispieces, portraits, etc. - provide a visual dimension where relevant. A full linking narrative and a copious bibliography help to make this an important reference work and a valuable research tool.

Author : Wallace Fowlie
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486167879
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Five Classic French Plays written by Wallace Fowlie and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treasury of theatrical masterpieces includes Corneille's The Cid, Racine's Phaedra, Molière’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.

Author : Wallace Fowlie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classical French Drama written by Wallace Fowlie and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eleanor Frances Jourdain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to the French Classical Drama written by Eleanor Frances Jourdain and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Will Grayburn Moore
Publisher : London ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Classical Drama of France written by Will Grayburn Moore and published by London ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mechele Leon
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587298910
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Molière, the French Revolution, and the Theatrical Afterlife written by Mechele Leon and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1680 until the French Revolution, when legislation abolished restrictions on theatrical enterprise, a single theatre held sole proprietorship of Molière’s works. After 1791, his plays were performed in new theatres all over Paris by new actors, before audiences new to his works. Both his plays and his image took on new dimensions. In Molière, the French Revolution, and the Theatrical Afterlife, Mechele Leon convincingly demonstrates how revolutionaries challenged the ties that bound this preeminent seventeenth-century comic playwright to the Old Regime and provided him with a place of honor in the nation’s new cultural memory. Leon begins by analyzing the performance of Molière’s plays during the Revolution, showing how his privileged position as royal servant was disrupted by the practical conditions of the revolutionary theatre. Next she explores Molière’s relationship to Louis XIV, Tartuffe, and the social function of his comedy, using Rousseau’s famous critique of Molière as well as appropriations of George Dandin in revolutionary iconography to discuss how Moliérean laughter was retooled to serve republican interests. After examining the profusion of plays dealing with his life in the latter years of the Revolution, she looks at the exhumation of his remains and their reentombment as the tangible manifestation of his passage from Ancien Régime favorite to new national icon. The great Molière is appreciated by theatre artists and audiences worldwide, but for the French people it is no exaggeration to say that the Father of French Comedy is part of their national soul. By showing how he was represented, reborn, and reburied in the new France—how the revolutionaries asserted his relevance for their tumultuous time in ways that were audacious, irreverent, imaginative, and extreme—Leon clarifies the important role of theatrical figures in preserving and portraying a nation’s history.

Author : Marie Pauline Rose Blaze de Bury (baronne.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Racine and the French classical drama written by Marie Pauline Rose Blaze de Bury (baronne.) and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Bradby
Publisher : Methuen Drama
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landmarks of French Classical Drama written by David Bradby and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 1991 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains five works from the classical period of French theatre - The Cid, Phedra, Tartuffe, The Lottery of Love and The Marriage of Figaro.

Author : Susanna Phillippo
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 : 9783034308519
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hellenic Whispers written by Susanna Phillippo and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book builds a picture of how Greek literature was reworked by the authors of seventeenth-century French tragedy. The text explores the complex interactions surrounding these adaptations, involving the input of scribes, editors, translators and earlier authors, and asks the important question of what these dramatists conceived of themselves as doing.

Author : C.J. Gossip
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349045187
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to French Classical Tragedy written by C.J. Gossip and published by Springer. This book was released on 1981-06-18 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: