A Tragedie of Abraham's Sacrifice Written in French
Author: Théodore de Bèze
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Published: 1906
Total Pages: 210
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Author: Théodore de Bèze
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Published: 1906
Total Pages: 210
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Théodore de Bèze
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Published: 1577
Total Pages: 45
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ovid
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 580
ISBN-13: 9780801870606
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis landmark translation of Ovid was acclaimed by Ezra Pound as "the most beautiful book in the language (my opinion and I suspect it was Shakespeare's)". Ovid's deliciously witty and poignant epic starts with the creation of the world and brings together a series of ingeniously linked myths and legends in which men and women are transformed -- often by love -- into flowers, trees, stones, and stars. Golding's robustly vernacular version was the first major English translation and decisively influenced Shakespeare, Spenser, and the character of English Renaissance writing.
Author: William Carew Hazlitt
Publisher: Johnson Reprint Corporation
Published: 1892
Total Pages: 308
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Published: 1892
Total Pages: 308
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael Meere
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021-10-21
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0192658026
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe performance of violence on the stage has played an integral role in French tragedy since its inception. Onstage Violence in Sixteenth-Century French Tragedy is the first book to tell this story. It traces and examines the ethical and poetic stakes of violence, as playwrights were experimenting with the newly discovered genre during decades of religious and civil war (c. 1550-1598). The study begins with an overview of the origins of French vernacular tragedy and the complex relationships between violence, performance, ethics, and poetics. The volume focuses on specific plays and analyzes biblical, mythological, historical, and politically topical tragedies—including the stories of Cain and Abel, David and Goliath, Medea, the Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent, the Roman general Regulus, and the assassination of the Duke of Guise in 1588—to show how the multifarious uses of violence on stage shed light on a range of pressing issues during that turbulent time, such as religion, gender, politics, and militantism.
Author: J. S. Street
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1983-08-25
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 0521245370
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 1983 book is a comprehensive study of the French sacred theatre at the crucial transition from medieval to modern conception of theatre.
Author: David Erskine Baker
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Published: 1812
Total Pages: 416
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Denis Hollier
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1998-08-19
Total Pages: 1202
ISBN-13: 0674254619
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDesigned for the general reader, this splendid introduction to French literature from 842 A.D.—the date of the earliest surviving document in any Romance language—to the present decade is the most compact and imaginative single-volume guide available in English to the French literary tradition. In fact, no comparable work exists in either language. It is not the customary inventory of authors and titles but rather a collection of wide-angled views of historical and cultural phenomena. It sets before us writers, public figures, criminals, saints, and monarchs, as well as religious, cultural, and social revolutions. It gives us books, paintings, public monuments, even TV shows. Written by 164 American and European specialists, the essays are introduced by date and arranged in chronological order, but here ends the book’s resemblance to the usual history of literature. Each date is followed by a headline evoking an event that indicates the chronological point of departure. Usually the event is literary—the publication of an original work, a journal, a translation, the first performance of a play, the death of an author—but some events are literary only in terms of their repercussions and resonances. Essays devoted to a genre exist alongside essays devoted to one book, institutions are presented side by side with literary movements, and large surveys appear next to detailed discussions of specific landmarks. No article is limited to the “life and works” of a single author. Proust, for example, appears through various lenses: fleetingly, in 1701, apropos of Antoine Galland’s translation of The Thousand and One Nights; in 1898, in connection with the Dreyfus Affair; in 1905, on the occasion of the law on the separation of church and state; in 1911, in relation to Gide and their different treatments of homosexuality; and at his death in 1922. Without attempting to cover every author, work, and cultural development since the Serments de Strasbourg in 842, this history succeeds in being both informative and critical about the more than 1,000 years it describes. The contributors offer us a chance to appreciate not only French culture but also the major critical positions in literary studies today. A New History of French Literature will be essential reading for all engaged in the study of French culture and for all who are interested in it. It is an authoritative, lively, and readable volume.