Description
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.
Author: Lucy Rayfield
Publisher: Legenda
Published: 02/14/2022
Pages: 228
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.56d
ISBN13: 9781781885123
ISBN10: 1781885125
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | European | French
- Literary Criticism | European | Italian
- Literary Criticism | Drama
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