Philippe Quinault, Dramatist Book by William Brooks
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Philippe Quinault, Dramatist


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Much work has been done in recent years on Quinault's librettos, but no major study of his spoken plays has appeared since the monumental thesis by Etienne Gros, published in 1926. Moreover, he has never been the subject of a monograph in English. There is a need to re-assess the influence of his life on his plays, and to re-evaluate Gros's findings in the light of eighty years' research into seventeenth-century French theatre in general. This book rejects the deterministic approach that sees his plays as apprentice pieces for the greater achievement that is his corpus of librettos, as well as the implicit comparative approach that pigeon-holes his work, in passing, by borrowing from the pithy judgements of Boileau. To what extent does Quinault's steady move away from comedy and light tragi-comedy to tragedies that combine love and menace go hand in hand with his search for greater integrity, better characterisation, and ever more credible plotting? How did he come to create and retain a tremendously faithful audience that even the withering mockery of Boileau failed to discourage? And is there any purpose in retaining the time-worn comparison between the author of Andromaque and the author of Astrate?
About the Author: The Author: William Brooks is Professor of French at the University of Bath, UK. He has published extensively in seventeenth-century French studies, notably the theatre and especially Quinault, early baroque opera librettos, and the life and writings of Elisabeth Charlotte, Duchess of Orleans. He is co-editor, with Rainer Zaiser, of Religion, Ethics, and History in the French Long Seventeenth Century and Theatre, Fiction, and Poetry in the French Long Seventeenth Century, two volumes of papers from a major conference of French early modern scholars, published by Peter Lang in 2007.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9783039115334
  • Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
  • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
  • Edition: 1 New ed
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 0 mm
  • Width: 150 mm
  • ISBN-10: 3039115332
  • Publisher Date: 22 Dec 2008
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 220 mm
  • No of Pages: 516
  • Series Title: Medieval and Early Modern French Studies
  • Weight: 730 gr


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