Old Comedy in the French Renaissance, 1576-1620
Author : Donald Perret
Publisher : Librairie Droz
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 28,21 MB
Release : 1992
Category : French drama
ISBN : 9782600036900
Author : Donald Perret
Publisher : Librairie Droz
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 28,21 MB
Release : 1992
Category : French drama
ISBN : 9782600036900
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 18,98 MB
Release : 1902
Category : French wit and humor
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Author : Sarah Alyn Stacey
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 14,29 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9783039105595
This collection of essays by thirteen renowned specialists in the fields of French Renaissance literature and history is a fitting tribute to the scholarship of Pauline Smith, Emeritus Professor in French at the University of Hull and Research Associate of the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Trinity College, Dublin. The essays, which focus on areas of research to which Professor Smith has herself given - and continues to give - particular attention, are organised into two frequently converging strands: court and humour. The contributors engage with political and cultural issues at the heart of the construction and aesthetic expression of the French Renaissance, whilst also offering insights into the broader European context. The collection as a whole challenges and revises a number of established views and identifies paths for future research.
Author : Brian Jeffery
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 39,57 MB
Release : 1969
Category : French drama
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Author : Walter Besant
Publisher :
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,11 MB
Release : 1873
Category : French literature
ISBN :
Author : Aurelius Cornelis Gerard Pompen
Publisher :
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 15,21 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Comparative literature
ISBN :
Author : Brian Jeffery
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon P.
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,64 MB
Release : 1969
Category : History
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Author : Sir Sidney Lee
Publisher :
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 22,89 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Arthur Tilley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 33,58 MB
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1107505569
First published in 1904, this book forms part of a two-volume set examining the development of literature during the French Renaissance. Taken together, the volumes cover the period 1525 to 1605, incorporating detailed information on numerous works and key literary figures, beginning with Francis I and his court and moving through to Mathurin Régnier. Both volumes were written by the renowned Cambridge literary critic and classicist Arthur Tilley (1851-1942). These books will be of value to anyone with an interest in French literature and the Renaissance.
Author : Barbara C. Bowen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 36,15 MB
Release : 2023-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1000948412
Of the articles in this volume, eight concern a world-famous author (François Rabelais); the others are studies of little-known authors (Cortesi, Corrozet, Mercier) or genres (the joke, the apophthegm). The common theme, in all but one, is humour: how it was defined, and how used, by orators and humanists but also by court jesters, princes, peasants and housewives. Though neglected by historians, this subject was of crucial importance to writers as different as Luther, Erasmus, Thomas More and François Rabelais. The book is divided into four sections. 'Humanist Wit' concerns the large and multi-lingual corpus of Renaissance facetiae. The second and third parts focus on French humanist humour, Rabelais in particular, while the last section is titled '"Serious" Humanists' because humour is by no means absent from it. For the Renaissance, as Erasmus and Rabelais amply demonstrate, and as the 'minor' authors studied here confirm, wit, whether affectionate or bitingly satirical, can coexist with, and indeed be inseparable from, serious purpose. Rabelais, as so often, said it best: 'Rire est le propre de l'homme.'