A Stage for Poets: Studies in the Theatre of Hugo and Musset

by Charles Affron

Book Overview

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 lan of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691620261
• ISBN13: 9780691620268
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"