Eighteenth-century French plays, ed
Author | : Clarence Dietz Brenner |
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Genre | : French drama |
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Author | : Clarence Dietz Brenner |
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Genre | : French drama |
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Author | : Fayçal Falaky |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2021-11-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1684483409 |
This collection of essays brings together different critical perspectives on play in eighteenth-century France. From dolls, bilboquets, and lotteries to the ludic nature of narrative and theatrical performance, this volume offers a new outlook on how play was used to represent and reimagine the world.
Author | : Edward Joseph Hollingsworth Greene |
Publisher | : Depts. of Romance Languages and Comparative Literature of the University of Alberta |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : French drama |
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Author | : Fayçal Falaky |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2021-11-12 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1684483425 |
Collecting diverse critical perspectives on the topic of play—from dolls, bilboquets, and lotteries, to writing itself—this volume offers new insights into how play was used to represent and reimagine the world in eighteenth-century France. In documenting various modes of play, contributors theorize its relation to law, religion, politics, and economics. Equally important was the role of “play” in plays, and the function of theatrical performance in mirroring, and often contesting, our place in the universe. These essays remind us that the spirit of play was very much alive during the “Age of Reason,” providing ways for its practitioners to consider more “serious” themes such as free will and determinism, illusions and equivocations, or chance and inequality. Standing at the intersection of multiple intellectual avenues, this is the first comprehensive study in English devoted to the different guises of play in Enlightenment France, certain to interest curious readers across disciplinary backgrounds.
Author | : Thomas Wynn |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2024-01-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0198895348 |
Reading Drama in Eighteenth-Century France is the first book-length study of how plays were read in eighteenth-century France and, relatedly, of closet drama: excessive plays that cannot be performed within the playhouse's confines and which thus appeal to the reader's imagination. This period in France was characterized by 'théâtromanie', a craze that encompassed the page as well as the stage. The book's first part surveys the historical context in which plays were read and offers a theoretical model for understanding this practice. The eighteenth-century closet was valued as a privileged site of reading. Although scholars routinely present this room as a place of calm reflection, Thomas Wynn develops a framework (derived in part from queer theory) to argue that it fosters passionate and disruptive pleasures that elude the coercive normativity of the playhouse. To explore the multipositional experience of reading plays in this period, Wynn turns to the journal Mercure de France, whose extensive reviews help us to think about geographies of reading, coercion, and autonomy. The second part examines how dramatists exploited the critical, imaginative, and formal potential of the reading experience. It offers close analysis of several closet plays: comedies depicting the dispute between Jesuits and Jansenists in the 1730s; Hénault's historical drama François II, roi de France (1747); and erotic plays from the end of the period. The study concludes with an account of Rétif de La Bretonne's Le Drame de la vie (1793)—an extreme and arguably unsurpassed example of closet drama. Ultimately, this book shows, closet drama is not failed theatre but rather an indisputable part of the lively, passionate, and combative theatrical culture of eighteenth-century France.
Author | : Anne Cutting Jones |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Criticism |
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Author | : M. Anderson |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2002-02-22 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0312292759 |
Aphra Behn, Susannah Centlivre, Hannah Cowley, and Elizabeth Inchbald were the only four female playwrights in England with multiple comic successes from 1670-1800. Behn's interest in the body, Centlivre's fascination with written contracts, Cowley's nationalism, and Inchbald's discussion of divorce emerge in the comic events that are animated by the psychological mechanisms of humor. Attending to the dialogue between these comic events and the plays' more predictable comic endings illuminates the philosophical, political, and legal arguments about women and marriage that fascinated both female playwrights and the theatergoing public.
Author | : James F. Traer |
Publisher | : Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Law |
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Author | : John Henry Ottemiller |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 833 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0810877201 |
The standard location tool for full-length plays published in collections and anthologies in England and the United States since the beginning of the 20th century, Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections has undergone seven previous editions, the latest in 1988, covering 1900 through 1985. In this new edition, Denise Montgomery has expanded the volume to include collections published in the entire English-speaking world through 2000 and beyond. This new volume lists more than 3,500 new plays and 2,000 new authors, as well as birth and/or death information for hundreds of authors. Representing the largest expansion between editions, this updated volume is a valuable resource for libraries worldwide.
Author | : Robert James Arnold |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1783272015 |
The first full-length treatment of the operatic querelles in eighteenth-century France, placing individual querelles in historical context and tracing common themes of authority, national prestige and the power of music over popular sentiment.