Women Dramatists Humor And The French Stage

Author : J. Johnston
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137452900
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Dramatists, Humor, and the French Stage written by J. Johnston and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filling a critical void, this book examines French women dramatists of the nineteenth-century who staged works prior to the lifting of censorship laws in 1864. Though none staged overtly feminist drama, Sophie de Bawr, Sophie Gay, Virginie Ancelot, and Delphine Girardin questioned patriarchal dominance and reconstructed ideals of womanhood.

Author : J. Johnston
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137452900
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Dramatists, Humor, and the French Stage written by J. Johnston and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filling a critical void, this book examines French women dramatists of the nineteenth-century who staged works prior to the lifting of censorship laws in 1864. Though none staged overtly feminist drama, Sophie de Bawr, Sophie Gay, Virginie Ancelot, and Delphine Girardin questioned patriarchal dominance and reconstructed ideals of womanhood.

Author : Lauren Gunderson
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0822237687
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Revolutionists written by Lauren Gunderson and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four beautiful, badass women lose their heads in this irreverent, girl-powered comedy set during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. Playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen (and fan of ribbons) Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle hang out, murder Marat, and try to beat back the extremist insanity in 1793 Paris. This grand and dream-tweaked comedy is about violence and legacy, art and activism, feminism and terrorism, compatriots and chosen sisters, and how we actually go about changing the world. It's a true story. Or total fiction. Or a play about a play. Or a raucous resurrection…that ends in a song and a scaffold.

Author : Hugh Noel Williams
Publisher : London Harper 1905.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queens of the French Stage written by Hugh Noel Williams and published by London Harper 1905.. This book was released on 1905 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cecilia Beach
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book French Women Playwrights Before the Twentieth Century written by Cecilia Beach and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1994-10-26 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until recently, French women playwrights had received almost no critical attention and their works were for the most part completely unknown, but this volume is evidence of the important contribution they have made to world literature. It presents an extensive list of the dramatic works of more than 400 French women playwrights from the 16th through 19th centuries and includes brief biographical information, as well as publication, performance, and availability information for nearly 3,000 plays. The volume includes authors who are relatively unknown, as well as more canonical names such as Marguerite de Navarre and George Sand. The book is divided into four chapters, each devoted to a particular century with authors listed alphabetically. Each entry includes basic biographical information about the author, such as pseudonyms, place and date of birth and death, professions or activities for which the author is known, and other genres in which the author wrote. Plays are listed chronologically under the author's name.

Author : E. Nicole Meyer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429681232
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking the French Classroom written by E. Nicole Meyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates how teaching practices can address the changing status of literature in the French classroom. Focusing on how women writing in French are changing the face of French Studies, opening the canon to not only new approaches to gender but to genre, expanding interdisciplinary studies and aiding scholars to rethink the teaching of literature, each chapter provides concrete strategies useful to a wide variety of classrooms and institutional contexts. Essays address how to bring French Studies and women’s and gender studies into the twenty-first century through intersections of autobiography, gender issues and technology; ways to introduce beginning and intermediate students to the rich diversity of women writing in French; strategies for teaching postcolonial writing and literary theory; and interdisciplinary approaches to expand our student audiences in the United States, Canada, or abroad. In short, revisiting how we teach, why we teach, and what we teach through the prism of women’s texts and lives while raising issues that affect cisgender women of the Hexagon, queer and other-gendered women, immigrants and residents of the postcolony attracts more openly diverse students. Whether new to the profession or seasoned educators, faculty will find new ideas to invigorate and diversify their pedagogical approaches.

Author : Norman Bryson
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606067729
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hersilia's Sisters written by Norman Bryson and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2023-07-25 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political and cultural history and the arts combine in this engaging account of 1790s France. In 1799, when the French artist Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825) exhibited his Intervention of the Sabines, a history painting featuring the ancient heroine Hersilia, he added portraits of two contemporary women on either side of her—Henriette de Verninac, daughter of Charles-François Delacroix, minister of foreign affairs, and Juliette Récamier, a well-known and admired socialite. Drawing on many disciplines, Norman Bryson explains how such a combination of paintings could reveal the underlying nature of the Directoire, the period between the vicious and near-dictatorial Reign of Terror (1793–94) and the coup in 1799 that brought Napoleon to power. Hersilia’s Sisters illuminates ways that cultural life and civil society were rebuilt during these years through an extraordinary efflorescence of women pioneers in every cultural domain—literature, the stage, opera, moral philosophy, political theory, painting, popular journalism, and fashion. Through a close examination of David’s work between The Intervention of the Sabines (begun in 1796) and Bonaparte Crossing the Alps (begun in 1800), Bryson explores how the flowering of women’s culture under the Directoire became a decisive influence on David’s art. With more than 150 illustrations, this book provides new and brilliant insight into this period that will captivate readers.

Author : Brander Matthews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book French Dramatists of the 19th Century written by Brander Matthews and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Molière
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822221593
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lovers' Quarrels written by Molière and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2007 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: LOVERS' QUARRELS (1656) was Molière's second full-length play in verse, and it is a complex comedy animated by deception and misunderstanding. A young woman (Ascagne) has worn masculine disguise since childhood, for the sake of an inheri

Author : Cary Hollinshead-Strick
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810140373
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fourth Estate at the Fourth Wall written by Cary Hollinshead-Strick and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New media are often greeted with suspicion by older media. The Fourth Estate at the Fourth Wall explores how, when the commercial press arrived in France in 1836, popular theater critiqued its corruption, its diluted politics, and its tendency to orient its content toward the lowest common denominator. July Monarchy plays, which provided affordable entertainment to a broad section of the public, constitute a large, nearly untapped reservoir of commentary on the arrival of the forty-franc press. Vaudevilles and comedies ask whether journalism that benefits from advertisement can be unbiased. Dramas explore whether threatening to spread false news is an acceptable way for journalists to exercise their influence. Hollinshead-Strick uses both plays and novels to show that despite their claims to enlighten their readers, newspapers were often accused of obscuring public access to information. Balzac’s interventions in this media sphere reveal his utopian views on print technology. Nerval’s and Pyat’s demonstrate the nefarious impact that corrupt theater critics could have on authors and on the public alike. Scholars of press and media studies, French literature, theater, and nineteenth-century literature more generally will find this book a valuable introduction to a cross-genre debate about press publicity that remains surprisingly resonant today.