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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Affron, Charles (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
Series:Princeton legacy library.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Musset, Alfred de, > 1810-1857.
Hugo, Victor, > 1802-1885 > Dramatic works.
French drama > 19th century > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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