French Renaissance Tragedy

The principle aim of this 1990 book is to encourage readers to find pleasure in sixteenth-century tragedies.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Note on references and spelling; Introduction; 1. Allusiveness; 2. Exposition; 3. The rhetor; 4. The chorus; 5. Characterisation; 6. Shape; 7. Pleasures; Appendix; Notes; List of works cited and consulted; Index.

Summary

The tragedies produced in France in the sixteenth century by writers such as Garnier, La Taille, and Jodelle are increasingly accessible in good modern editions. Their subject matter included Bible stories and recent history, as well as Greek legend and Roman history. Until now, scholars have tended to regard them as a staging post on the road to Corneille and Racine.

Product details

• Authors: Gillian Jondorf
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.09.2011
• EAN: 9780521360142
• ISBN: 978-0-521-36014-2
• No. of pages: 188
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 222 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 375 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in French
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies