Sources of Dramatic Theory: Volume 2, Voltaire to Hugo
Sources of Dramatic Theory: Volume 2, Voltaire to Hugo

Author: Michael J. Sidnell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9780521326957

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This is the second volume in the series Sources of Dramatic Theory. This volume includes the major theoretical writing on drama and theatre from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, focusing on issues that are still relevant to our understanding of drama and theatre. Among the writers represented by their own essays or substantial extracts from longer works are: Voltaire, Diderot, Goldoni, Dr Johnson, Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, Hegel, and Coleridge.Many of the texts have been newly translated for this volume and all have been newly annotated and introduced.Recurrent topics and allusions are traced by a system of cross-references.

The Dramatic Index for ...
The Dramatic Index for ...

Author: Frederick Winthrop Faxon

Publisher:

Published: 1922

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13:

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Issues for 1912-16, 1919- accompanied by an appendix: The Dramatic books and plays (in English) (title varies slightly) This bibliography was incorporated into the main list in 1917-18.

French Drama of the Revolutionary Years
French Drama of the Revolutionary Years

Author: Graham E. Rodmell

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-03-31

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1000911918

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French Drama of the Revolutionary Years (1990) examines the years following the Revolution which saw an explosion both in the number of theatres and in the number of dramatic representations written and performed. It describes this turbulent period of theatre history, placing it firmly within the context of French social and political life, and illustrating the discussion with examinations of contemporary texts. It focuses on the political and philosophical themes of the plays, and the light they throw on events of the time.

Widows, Pariahs, and Bayadères
Widows, Pariahs, and Bayadères

Author: Binita Mehta

Publisher: Bucknell University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9780838754559

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This book analyzes how French dramatists reproduced certain images of India such as the burning widow, the lowly pariah or untouchable, and the exotic 'bayadere' or dancing girl in four plays and one ballet written from the eighteenth century through the twentieth centuries. Addressing questions of Orientalism, the book also argues that it was because the French lost their Indian colonies to the Briish in the eighteenth centuries that India became a part of the French literary imagination.