Poetics, Performance and Politics in French and Italian Renaissance Comedy: 18 (Transcript) - Tapa blanda

Rayfield, Lucy

 
9781781885161: Poetics, Performance and Politics in French and Italian Renaissance Comedy: 18 (Transcript)
Tapa blanda
ISBN 10: 1781885168 ISBN 13: 9781781885161
Editorial: Legenda, 2024

Sinopsis

There is nothing funny about comedy in Renaissance France. Comic theatre in the sixteenth century was employed, primarily, as a tool for teaching Latin; it was also judged to be a canny means of enriching and elevating one’s national literature and language. Increasingly, comedy was transformed into a political and polemical weapon, capable not only of resisting the influx into France of the forward-looking and fashionable Italian culture, but also of helping to replace the Italians as arbiters of European literature. In this intertextual and cross-cultural survey, Lucy Rayfield explores the productive and at times antagonistic relationship of French playwrights with Italian paradigms, documenting the move from classical comedy regarded as a scholarly exercise to drama revived in print and performance, which was anything but a smooth transition.

Lucy Rayfield graduated with a doctorate from Balliol College, University of Oxford, in 2019. She is currently a Research Associate in Renaissance French at St Benet’s Hall, University of Oxford.


"Sinopsis" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Editorial
Legenda
Año de publicación
2024
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1781885168
ISBN 13 
9781781885161
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
228
Contacto del fabricante
no disponible
Persona responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

Friedensallee 273
Hamburg
22763
Alemania

Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título

9781781885123: Poetics, Performance and Politics in French and Italian Renaissance Comedy: 18 (Transcript)

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  1781885125 ISBN 13:  9781781885123
Editorial: Legenda, 2022
Tapa dura