Philippe Quinault, Dramatist

Philippe Quinault, Dramatist

Author: William Brooks

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 518

ISBN-13: 9783039115334

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Much work has been done in recent years on Quinault's librettos, but no major study of his spoken plays has appeared since the monumental thesis by Etienne Gros, published in 1926. Moreover, he has never been the subject of a monograph in English. There is a need to re-assess the influence of his life on his plays, and to re-evaluate Gros's findings in the light of eighty years' research into seventeenth-century French theatre in general. This book rejects the deterministic approach that sees his plays as apprentice pieces for the greater achievement that is his corpus of librettos, as well as the implicit comparative approach that pigeon-holes his work, in passing, by borrowing from the pithy judgements of Boileau. To what extent does Quinault's steady move away from comedy and light tragi-comedy to tragedies that combine love and menace go hand in hand with his search for greater integrity, better characterisation, and ever more credible plotting? How did he come to create and retain a tremendously faithful audience that even the withering mockery of Boileau failed to discourage? And is there any purpose in retaining the time-worn comparison between the author of Andromaque and the author of Astrate?


Ruling Women, Volume 2

Ruling Women, Volume 2

Author: Derval Conroy

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-01-26

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1137568488

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Ruling Women is a two-volume study devoted to an analysis of the conflicting discourses concerning government by women in seventeenth-century France. In this second volume, Configuring the Female Prince in Seventeenth-Century French Drama, Conroy analyzes over 30 plays published between 1637 and 1691, examining the range of constructions of queenship that are thrown into relief. The analysis focuses on the ways in which certain texts strive to manage the cultural anxiety produced by female rule and facilitate the diminution of the uneasy cultural reality it represents, while others dramatize the exercise of political virtue by women, explode the myth of gender-differentiated sexual ethics, and suggest alternative constructions of gender relations to those upheld by the normative discourses of sexual difference. The approach is underpinned by an understanding of theatre as fundamentally political, a cultural institution implicated in the maintenance of, and challenge to, societal power relations. Innovative and stimulating, Conroy’s work will appeal to scholars of seventeenth-century drama and history of ideas, in addition to those interested in the history of women in political thought and the history of feminism.


Ethics and Politics in Seventeenth-century France

Ethics and Politics in Seventeenth-century France

Author: Keith Cameron

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13:

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A collection of twenty essays, of which five are in French, by leading English and French scholars, deconstructs the ethical and political framework of a powerful elite between the early 1600s and the end of Louis XIV's reign.


Relations & Relationships in Seventeenth-century French Literature

Relations & Relationships in Seventeenth-century French Literature

Author: Jennifer Robin Perlmutter

Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 9783823362210

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This volume is devoted to the variety of relationships that defined France and ist citizens. Man's connection with God is explored, the travel raelation and the particular hierarchy that exists between a director and a dramatist, respectively. These themes are further addressed in the articles that follow on relationships of authority, Catholics and Protestants, books and Illustrations, literary genres, travel relations, aesthetics and ethics and family relationships.