A Man and a Woman
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Aeschylus
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Alfred de Musset
Amour (musical)
Arrigo Boito
Assonance
Author_Charles Affron
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Caesura
Caliban
Caricature
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Cloister
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Diction
Dramaturge
Dramaturgy
Epic poetry
Epigraph (literature)
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Erudition
Euphemism
Evocation
Fabulation
Fantasio
Farce
Figure of speech
Genre
Hernani (drama)
Homage (arts)
Invective
Irony
La Vie (painting)
Laisse
Language_English
Libretto
Literature
Lorenzaccio
Lyric poetry
Lyricism
Melodrama
Metaphorical extension
Mock-heroic
Moliere
Morality play
Music Is
Novel
Novelist
Odes et Ballades
Oreste
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Parody
Petrarch
Playwright
Poet
Poetic diction
Poetry
Potboiler
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Prose
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Pun
Revue
Rhetoric
Romantic poetry
Romanticism
Rosier
Shakespeare's reputation
Simile
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Soliloquy
Stagecraft
Symbolism (arts)
The Last Sentence
Verisimilitude (fiction)
Victor Hugo
Well-made play
William Shakespeare
Writer
Your Face
Product details
- ISBN 9780691620268
- Weight: 369g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 08 Mar 2015
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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In the nineteenth century, the French lyric poets imposed their diction on the theatrical genre and thus illuminated the essence of both poetry and theatre. Ten plays by Victor Hugo, the standard-bearer of the French romantic theatre, and Alfred de Musset, the romantic playwright most frequently performed in France today, are analyzed by Charles Affron to answer the question, "Can the dialetic form of the theatre accommodate the solitary elan of the lyric poet?" As a functional point of departure, he considers those characteristics of lyric poetry--time, voice, and metaphor--which bring us closest to the singular attitudes of Hugo and Musset. Then, examining the texts of Hernani, Les Burgraves, Torquemada, Fantasio, and Lorenzaccio as well as several lesser known plays, Mr. Affron discusses such topics as poetic time, the scope of analogy, theatrical and poetic rhetoric, the guises of the poet-hero, and the manner of sounding the poet's voice upon the stage. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
