Menander to Marivaux: The History of a Comic Structure
Title | Menander to Marivaux: The History of a Comic Structure PDF eBook |
Author | E.J.H. Greene |
Publisher | University of Alberta |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780888640185 |
The author examines comedies based on a structure first used by Menander in the fourth century B.C. and brought to its precise formulations and brilliance by Marivaux in the eighteenth century A.D.
Interpreting Cultures
Title | Interpreting Cultures PDF eBook |
Author | J. Hart |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 347 |
Release | 2016-09-23 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 113711665X |
This book focuses on how we perceive, know and interpret culture across disciplinary boundaries. The study combines theoretical and critical contexts for close readings in culture through discussions of literature, philosophy, history, psychology and visual arts by and about men and women in Europe, the Americas and beyond.
Beaumarchais and the Theatre
Title | Beaumarchais and the Theatre PDF eBook |
Author | William D. Howarth |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 279 |
Release | 2008-03-07 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1134985916 |
William D Howarth sets Le Mariage de Figaro and Beaumarchais's other dramatic works in the broad historical context of pre-revolutionary France, providing a unique and authoritative study of the dramatist and his plays. He presents detailed analyses of the plays themselves, discussing their critical receptions, their influence on drama of the period and their legacy. Included is a discussion of the operatic adaptations: Mozart's Mariage de Figaro and Rossini's Le Barbier de Seville. The author also provides analyses of sketches and fragments only recently re-discovered. Beaumarchais and the Theatre is a comprehensive and much needed study of one of the most significant playwrights of the turbulent eighteenth century. It is invaluable reading for students of theatre history.
Comparative Criticism: Volume 10, Comedy, Irony, Parody
Title | Comparative Criticism: Volume 10, Comedy, Irony, Parody PDF eBook |
Author | E. S. Shaffer |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 1989-11-09 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521390149 |
Volume 10, dedicated to 'Comedy, Irony, Parody', celebrates the first decade of Comparative Criticism in a light-hearted vein. Michael Silk opens with a wide-ranging essay asserting the primacy of comedy and declaring its independence of tragedy. T. L. S. Sprigge explores philosophers who dared to write on laughter: Schopenhauer and Bergson. Bernard Harrison looks at the twentieth century's favourite comic novel, Tristram Shandy, in the light of Locke's views on 'the particular'. Peter Brand pursues the theatrical arts of disguises, masking, and gender-swapping through Renaissance Europe, from Ariosto to Shakespeare. Jane H. M. Taylor traces the danse macabre in modern 'black humour'. Christine Brooke-Rose, distinguished novelist and critic, reads from and comments on her own witty fictions. Michael Wood describes how Lolita outwitted her seducer.
Molière: A Playwright and His Audience
Title | Molière: A Playwright and His Audience PDF eBook |
Author | William Driver Howarth |
Publisher | CUP Archive |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 1982-07 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780521286794 |
This study explores the evolution of Molière's comedy as a careful amalgamation of comedy and philosophical satire.
Husbands, Wives, and Lovers
Title | Husbands, Wives, and Lovers PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Mainardi |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 2003-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780300101041 |
In this interdisciplinary exploration of the cultural and social history of early 19th-century France, Patricia Mainardi focuses on what was considered a major social problem of the time - adultery. In a period when expectations about marriage were changing, the problems of husbands, wives and lovers became a major theme in theatre, literature and the visual arts. The author demonstrates that this intense interest was historically grounded in the post-revolutionary collision between the new concept of the individual's right to happiness and the traditional prerogatives of family and state. duty or happiness more important? Are arranged marriages doomed to be empty of love and poisoned by adultery? Should adulterous wives and their lovers be punished while husbands may commit adultery with impunity? Out of such legal, social and cultural debates ultimately emerged modern bourgeois family values, Mainardi argues. And she illuminates how art, in all its varieties, both influences and is influenced by social change.
Comedy, an Annotated Bibliography of Theory and Criticism
Title | Comedy, an Annotated Bibliography of Theory and Criticism PDF eBook |
Author | James E. Evans |
Publisher | Scarecrow Press |
Pages | 430 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780810819870 |
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