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Book Jean de La Taille und Sein Sa  l Le Furieux  Von Dr  A  Werner   With the Text

Download or read book Jean de La Taille und Sein Sa l Le Furieux Von Dr A Werner With the Text written by Jean de LA TAILLE and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Rivals

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  • Author : Jean de La Taille
  • Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
  • Release : 2006-01-01
  • ISBN : 0889205876
  • Pages : 93 pages

Download or read book The Rivals written by Jean de La Taille and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean de La Taille's play Les Corrivaus is the comical story of the rivalry between Filadelfe and Euverte for the lovely Fleurdelys. Difficulties are resolved symmetrically, and matrimony is the order at the end of the day--though, in the best Renaissance tradition, the difficulties had appeared grave indeed. The play should appeal to anyone interested in the theatre, but it is of considerable importance to historians of Renaissance drama, since it is generally accepted as the earliest surviving French humanist comedy written in prose, and the first to be based on Italian models. In particular, La Taille draws heavily upon Le Maçon's translation of Boccaccio's Decameron. The play also amplifies understanding of numerous conventions of Renaissance drama--especially those related to stagecraft, plot, and thematic treatment--yet La Taille transcends mere conventionality in his skilled treatment of character and plot. He also manages to accomplish his didactic purpose, informing his audience of the foibles of lovers, with a minimum of sententious moralizing.

Book Jean de la Taille

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  • Author : A. Werner
  • Publisher :
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Jean de la Taille written by A. Werner and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jean de la Taille und sein Sa  l le Furieux   With the text     Facsimile reproduction  from the original  1908  edition    With a portrait and a bibliography

Download or read book Jean de la Taille und sein Sa l le Furieux With the text Facsimile reproduction from the original 1908 edition With a portrait and a bibliography written by A. Werner and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Daire  tragedie  in five acts and in verse  With a dedication by Jean de La Taille

Download or read book Daire tragedie in five acts and in verse With a dedication by Jean de La Taille written by Jacques de LA TAILLE and published by . This book was released on 1598 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Born to Write

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  • Author : Neil Kenny
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2020-02-27
  • ISBN : 0192593579
  • Pages : 424 pages

Download or read book Born to Write written by Neil Kenny and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is easy to forget how deeply embedded in social hierarchy was the literature and learning that has come down to us from the early modern European world. From fiction to philosophy, from poetry to history, works of all kinds emerged from and through the social hierarchy that was a fundamental fact of everyday life. Paying attention to it changes how we might understand and interpret the works themselves, whether canonical and familiar or largely forgotten. But a second, related fact is much overlooked too: works also often emanated from families, not just from individuals. Families were driving forces in the production—that is, in the composing, editing, translating, or publishing—of countless works. Relatives collaborated with each other, edited each other, or continued the unfinished works of deceased family members; some imitated or were inspired by the works of long-dead relatives. The reason why this second fact (about families) is connected to the first (about social hierarchy) is that families were in the period a basic social medium through which social status was claimed, maintained, threatened, or lost. So producing literary works was one of the many ways in which families claimed their place in the social world. The process was however often fraught, difficult, or disappointing. If families created works as a form of socio-cultural legacy that might continue to benefit their future members, not all members benefited equally; women sometimes produced or claimed the legacy for themselves, but they were often sidelined from it. Relatives sometimes disagreed bitterly about family history, identity (not least religious), and so about the picture of themselves and their family that they wished to project more widely in society through their written works, whether printed or manuscript. So although family was a fundamental social medium out of which so many works emerged, that process could be conflictual as well as harmonious. The intertwined role of family and social hierarchy within literary production is explored in this book through the case of France, from the late fifteenth to the mid-seventeenth century. Some families are studied here in detail, such as that of the most widely read French poet of the age, Clément Marot. But the extent of this phenomenon is quantified too: some two hundred families are identified as each containing more than one literary producer, and in the case of one family an extraordinary twenty-seven.

Book A Short History of French Literature

Download or read book A Short History of French Literature written by George Saintsbury and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book On the Edge of Truth and Honesty  Principles and Strategies of Fraud and Deceit in the Early Modern Period

Download or read book On the Edge of Truth and Honesty Principles and Strategies of Fraud and Deceit in the Early Modern Period written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early modern period, deceit and fraud were common issues. Acutely aware of the ubiquity and multiplicity of simulation and dissimulation, people from this period made serious efforts to gain a better understanding of the phenomenon, trying to distinguish between acceptable and unacceptable, pleasant and unpleasant, wicked and virtuous forms of deceit, and seeking to unravel its principles, strategies, and functions. The twelve case-studies in this volume focus on the use of deceit by several groups of people in different spheres of life, as well as on its representation in literary and artistic genres, and its conceptualization in philosophical and rhetorical discourses. The studies testify to the rich variety of deceitful strategies applied by people from the early modern period, as well as to the subtlety and diversity of the conceptual frameworks they construed in order to grasp the many aspects of the elusive yet all-pervasive phenomenon of deceit. Contributors include: Daniel Acke, Jacques Bos, Wiep van Bunge, Evelien Chayes, Paul J.C.M. Franssen, Paul van Heck, Toon van Houdt, Alfons K.L. Thijs, Bert Timmermans, Johannes Trapman, Mark van Vaeck, Natascha Veldhorst, and Johan Verberckmoes.

Book The Politics of Print During the French Wars of Religion

Download or read book The Politics of Print During the French Wars of Religion written by Gregory P. Haake and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Politics of Print During the French Wars of Religion, Gregory Haake examines how, in late sixteenth-century France, authors and publishers used the printed text to control the terms of public discourse and determine history, or at least their narrative of it.

Book The Fortunes of the Courtier

Download or read book The Fortunes of the Courtier written by Peter Burke and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Castiglione's Cortegiano, or the Courtier, is one of the best-known texts of the Italian Renaissance. When it first appeared in 1528, the Courtier was widely read as a guide to contemporary conduct. Its popularity led to its publication in six languages in twenty different European centers in the sixteenth century alone. While the text itself has been studied very carefully in recent years as the embodiment of the spirit of the High Renaissance, its multitude of readers, spread over the world, has received much less attention. In this engaging study Peter Burke explores how readers over the years have responded to the Courtier. Because it was read so widely in Europe, the Courtier affords Burke an ideal test case for the diffusion and reception of ideas. From Poland and Hungary to England, Portugal, and even the New World, he takes us on a fascinating tour of the courts, libraries, and reading rooms of Europe in search of Castiglione's idea of the perfect courtier. He shows how changing responses to the Courtier, both positive and negative, reveal changing social values and how regional variations in its reception reflect the emerging cultural map of early modern Europe. His evidence includes printing history, translations, marginalia, and records of sale and possession. He concludes with a discussion of the later fortune of the Courtier, including its role in the "civilizing process" and its curious appeal to writers as different as Samuel Johnson and W. B. Yeats. Informed by Burke's considerable knowledge of printing and publishing history, this book contributes to our growing understanding of the history of the book and to our knowledge of the Renaissance and its reception.

Book The Poetical Works of Sir William Alexander  Earl of Stirling

Download or read book The Poetical Works of Sir William Alexander Earl of Stirling written by William Alexander Earl of Stirling and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1921 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Courtly Song in Late Sixteenth Century France

Download or read book Courtly Song in Late Sixteenth Century France written by Jeanice Brooks and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late sixteenth century, the French royal court was mobile. To distinguish itself from the rest of society, it depended more on its cultural practices and attitudes than on the royal and aristocratic palaces it inhabited. Using courtly song-or the air de cour-as a window, Jeanice Brooks offers an unprecedented look into the culture of this itinerant institution. Brooks concentrates on a period in which the court's importance in projecting the symbolic centrality of monarchy was growing rapidly and considers the role of the air in defining patronage hierarchies at court and in enhancing courtly visions of masculine and feminine virtue. Her study illuminates the court's relationship to the world beyond its own confines, represented first by Italy, then by the countryside. In addition to the 40 editions of airs de cour printed between 1559 and 1589, Brooks draws on memoirs, literary works, and iconographic evidence to present a rounded vision of French Renaissance culture. The first book-length examination of the history of air de cour, this work also sheds important new light on a formative moment in French history.

Book Catalogue of the Astor Library

Download or read book Catalogue of the Astor Library written by Astor Library and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 1108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Astor Library  continuation

Download or read book Catalogue of the Astor Library continuation written by Astor Library and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Drama To day

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  • Author : Charlton Andrews
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1843
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 414 pages

Download or read book The Drama To day written by Charlton Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: