14 results for '"CORNEILLE"'

La dernière tragédie de Corneille est l'une des plus belles, tant l'action s'y mêle à l'élégie, et à la poésie. Orode, roi des Parthes, veut faire épouser à Suréna Mandane qu'il n'aime pas, et non...

Le héros Dorante, par la seule puissance de sa parole, organise le monde à sa guise. En remplaçant le monde de la réalité par celui de la feinte, Corneille donne à voir le théâtre même. Dorante ment...

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Le texte intégral du tragédien du XVIIe commenté et annoté. Dans l'Arménie soumise à la Rome impériale, un jeune seigneur se fait baptiser en secret. C'est lors d'un sacrifice rituel qu'il proclame...

In a charming collection of elegant essays, one of the twentieth century's leading men of letters turns his vast knowledge and worldly authority to the texts of two seventeenth-century French...

Dryden defined himself as a writer in relation to other writers, and in doing so was something of a pioneer professional man of letters. This book looks at Dryden's literary relationships with Ben...

Louis IV represents the apogee of French royal power and the Ancien Regime. Having restored the nation's finances and rebuilt the army, he embarked on a series of wars of conquest which made France...

This volume includes major theoretical writings on drama from the Greeks, through the Renaissance up to the late seventeenth century, compiled and edited for students of drama and theater. There are...

As a transformative thinker of the twentieth century, whose work spanned all branches of the humanities, Michel Foucault had a complex and profound relationship with literature. And yet this critical...

“Mr. Kushner’s glorious specialty is in giving theatrical life to internal points of view, in which our thoughts meld with a character’s wayward speculations or fantasies... He makes the personal and...