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Christophe Colomb /
Known during the Directory and especially under the Empire for his scandalous successes and for his rebellious posture which made him a privileged victim of censorship, Népomucène Louis Lemercier had his Christopher Columbus performed at the Odéon on March 7, 1809, a play he defines it as a "...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Francés |
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Cambridge :
The Modern Humanities Research Association,
2015.
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| Colección: | MHRA critical texts. Phoenix ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Known during the Directory and especially under the Empire for his scandalous successes and for his rebellious posture which made him a privileged victim of censorship, Népomucène Louis Lemercier had his Christopher Columbus performed at the Odéon on March 7, 1809, a play he defines it as a "Shakespearean" comedy. Without renouncing the alexandrine, which he bends and disfigures, Lemercier creates a work whose action moves from Spain to America and requires the installation of a boat on the stage. After the disorders that followed the shows – “blood was flowing in the parterre of the Odéon”, we read in a late testimony – a legend was created around Lemercier's play that lasted at least until the 1830s, and the tumults provoked by Christopher Columbus have been described by modern critics as a battle of Hernani before the letter. Active author of the Revolution to the July Monarchy, scholarly academician and opponent of Victor Hugo, Lemercier is therefore the inventor – with Pinto and Christophe Colomb – of the genre of “historical comedy”, protoform of romantic drama. However, the already romantic audacity of the author is opposed to his hatred towards the representatives of the new school and the fashion of foreign theatres. The mixed aesthetics of Lemercier and his “Shakespearean” comedy are very revealing of an ambiguity characteristic of the difficult transition between Enlightenment and Romanticism. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vi, 185 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-185). |
| ISBN: | 9781781882207 1781882207 |