Description
Aphra Behn's spectacular farce, Emperor of the Moon (1687), so engaged audiences that it was restaged well into the eighteenth century. Her play was largely adapted from Anne Mauduit de Fatouville's Arlequin, Empereur dans la lune (1684), a commedia dell'arte production by the Com die-Italienne troupe, a performance which also proved immensely popular with Parisian audiences. Within its witty and amusing three acts, Behn's play explores a number of contemporary concerns -- from commedia dell'arte, to gender and politics, to science and astronomy, including a plurality of worlds, for example -- all culminating in the third act's operatic spectacle. This volume offers a transcription of Behn's 1687 play with extensive annotations, a critical discussion of Behn's text, and the first English translation of Fatouville's eight French and Italian scenes.
Author: Judy A. Hayden
Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association
Published: 05/31/2019
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.38d
ISBN13: 9781781888858
ISBN10: 178188885X
BISAC Categories:
- Drama | European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Drama | European | French
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