Poetics, Performance and Politics in French and Italian Renaissance Comedy - Couverture souple

Rayfield, Lucy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1781885168 ISBN 13 : 9781781885161

Editeur : Legenda, 2024

Synopsis

There is nothing funny about comedy in Renaissance France. Comic theatre in the sixteenth century was employed, primarily, as a tool for teaching Latin; it was also judged to be a canny means of enriching and elevating one's national literature and language. Increasingly, comedy was transformed into a political and polemical weapon, capable not only of resisting the influx into France of the forward-looking and fashionable Italian culture, but also of helping to replace the Italians as arbiters of European literature. In this intertextual and cross-cultural survey, Lucy Rayfield explores the productive and at times antagonistic relationship of French playwrights with Italian paradigms, documenting the move from classical comedy regarded as a scholarly exercise to drama revived in print and performance, which was anything but a smooth transition.

Lucy Rayfield graduated with a doctorate from Balliol College, University of Oxford, in 2019. She is currently a Research Associate in Renaissance French at St Benet's Hall, University of Oxford.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Legenda
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1781885168
• ISBN 13: 9781781885161
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 228
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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