Pixérécourt and the French Romantic Drama /
The purpose of this work is to establish the relationship between the Romantic drama in France of the period 1829-1843 (circa) and the melodrama or ""popular tragedy"" which flourished in the second-class theatres during the first three decades of the nineteenth century
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Toronto] :
University of Toronto Press,
1928.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; I. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MELODRAMA OF PIXERÉ COURT; II. MELODRAMA AND ROMANTIC DRAMA-HISTORICAL POINTS OF CONTACT; III. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ROMANTIC DRAMA AND MELODRAMA IN RESPECT OF DRAMATIC QUALITIES; IV. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ROMANTIC DRAMA AND MELODRAMA IN RESPECT OF THE TRAGIC ELEMENT; V. PATHETIC, SENTIMENTAL AND SENSATIONAL ELEMENTS IN ROMANTIC DRAMA, CONSIDERED IN THEIR RELATION TO MELODRAMA; VI. MELODRAMA AND THE STOCK CHARACTERS OF ROMANTIC DRAMA; VII. CONCLUSION-A SUMMING-UP OF THE ARGUMENT OF THE PRECEDING CHAPTERS, WITH INFERENCES DRAWN THEREFROM; BIBLIOGRAPHY