A Stage For Poets : Studies in the Theatre of Hugo and Musset /

In the nineteenth century, the French lyric poets imposed their diction on the theatrical genre and thus illuminated the essence of both poetry and theatre. Ten plays by Victor Hugo, the standard-bearer of the French romantic theatre, and Alfred de Musset, the romantic playwright most frequently per...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Affron, Charles (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
Collection:Princeton legacy library.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Musset, Alfred de, > 1810-1857.
Hugo, Victor, > 1802-1885 > Dramatic works.
French drama > 19th century > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Preface
  • Introduction : the problem of a poetic theatre
  • The time of the lyric : Hernani
  • The time of the epic : Les bur graves
  • Lyric echoes : nostalgia and parody : Torquemada and mangeront-us?
  • Analogy and sentiment : La nuit venitienne and Andre del Sarto
  • From rhetoric to poetry : Les caprices de Marianne
  • The order of poetry : Fantasio
  • Time and identity : On ne badine pas avec l'amour
  • Heroism and art : Lorenzaccio
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix.

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