Author : Gary Robert Grund
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 14,32 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780674017443
The five comedies included in this volume present a characteristic sampling of comic form as it was interpreted by some of the most important Latin humanists of the Quattrocento.
Author : Alexander Welsh
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 16,80 MB
Release : 2014-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0300206860
For about three thousand years comedy has applied a welcome humanist perspective to the world’s religious beliefs and practices. From the ancient Greek comedies of Aristophanes, the famous poem by Lucretius, and dialogues of Cicero to early modern and Enlightenment essays and philosophical texts, together with the inherent skepticism about life after death in tragicomedies by Plautus, Shakespeare, Molière, and nineteenth-century novels by such as Dickens and Hugo, the literary critic and historian Alexander Welsh analyzes the prevalence of openness of mind and relieving good humor in Western thought. The Humanist Comedy concludes with close examination of a postmodern novel by the Nobel Prize winner José Saramago.
Author : S. Douglas Olson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1098 pages
File Size : 37,57 MB
Release : 2013-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 161451125X
This wide-ranging collection, consisting of 50 essays by leading international scholars in a variety of fields, provides an overview of the reception history of a major literary genre from Greco-Roman antiquity to the present day. Section I considers how the 5th- and 4th-century Athenian comic poets defined themselves and their plays, especially in relation to other major literary forms. It then moves on to the Roman world and to the reception of Greek comedy there in art and literature. Section II deals with the European reception of Greek and Roman comedy in the Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern periods, and with the European stage tradition of comic theater more generally. Section III treats the handling of Greco-Roman comedy in the modern world, with attention not just to literary translations and stage-productions, but to more modern media such as radio and film. The collection will be of interest to students of ancient comedy as well as to all those concerned with how literary and theatrical traditions are passed on from one time and place to another, and adapted to meet local conditions and concerns.
Author : Paul Maurice Clogan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,19 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780742534162
Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international board of distinguished scholars and critics, has published interdisciplinary articles. In yearly hardbound volumes, the new series publishes significant scholarship, criticism, and reviews treating all facets of medieval and Renaissance culture: history, art, literature, music, science, law, economics, and philosophy.
Author : Stephen J. Milner
Publisher : The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 27,72 MB
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Europe
ISBN : 0907570232
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Author : Arpad Szakolczai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 18,41 MB
Release : 2012-12-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1136172548
The book aims at reframing the discussion on the "public sphere," usually understood as the place where the public opinion is formed, through rational discussion. The aim of this book is to give an account of this rationality, and its serious shortcomings, examining the role of the media and the confusing of public roles and personal identity. It focuses in particular on the role of the theatrical and comical in the historical development of the public sphere, and in this manner reformulating definitions of common sense, personal identity, and culture.
Author : Jan Bloemendal
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 27,12 MB
Release : 2023-03-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1538177862
Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international board of distinguished scholars and critics, has published interdisciplinary articles. In yearly hardcover volumes, the new series publishes significant scholarship, criticism, and reviews treating all facets of medieval and Renaissance culture: history, art, literature, music, science, law, economics, and philosophy. Volume 48 is a special issue that presents the outcome of an international workshop (“Transnational Aspects of Early Modern Drama”) held (virtually) at Ruhr-Universität Bochum in June 2021. The conference was hosted by Jan Bloemendal, one of the most distinguished scholars in the field. This volume contains six transnational and/or translingual case studies of early modern theatre and four reviews which cover various epochs, genres and discourses.
Author : Christopher Cairns
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 21,43 MB
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0429640366
Originally published in 1999, this book is a critical analysis of Renaissance theatre, including chapters on speaking theatres, performing theatre and redesigning Shakespeare.
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 10,80 MB
Release : 2011-02-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0674057252
This book contains a representative sampling of Latin drama written during the Tre- and Quattrocento. The five tragedies included in this volume were nourished by a potent amalgam of classical, medieval, and pre-humanist sources.
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 16,48 MB
Release : 2017-07-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004349324
In A Companion to Celestina, Enrique Fernandez brings together twenty-three hitherto unpublished contributions on the Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea, popularly known as Celestina (c. 1499) written by leading experts who summarize, evaluate and expand on previous studies. The resulting chapters offer the non-specialist an overview of Celestina studies. Those who already know the field will find state of the art studies filled with new insights that elaborate on or depart from the well-established currents of criticism. Celestina's creation and sources, the parody of religious and erudite traditions, the treatment of magic, prostitution, the celestinesca and picaresque genre, the translations into other languages as well as the adaptations into the visual arts (engravings, paintings, films) are some of the topics included in this companion. Contributors are: Beatriz de Alba-Koch, Raúl Álvarez Moreno, Consolación Baranda, Ted L. Bergman, Patrizia Botta, José Luis Canet, Fernando Cantalapiedra, Ricardo Castells, Ivy Corfis, Manuel da Costa Fontes, Enrique Fernandez, José Luis Gastañaga Ponce de León, Ryan D. Giles, Yolanda Iglesias, Gustavo Illades Aguiar, Kathleen V. Kish, Bienvenido Morros Mestres, Devid Paolini, Antonio Pérez Romero, Amaranta Saguar García, Connie Scarborough, Joseph T. Snow, and Enriqueta Zafra.
