French Renaissance Tragedy: The Dramatic Word

by Gillian Jondorf

Book Overview

Gillian Jondorf challenges the traditional critical approaches to French Renaissance theater, reevaluating its literary merit and originality. She shows how playwrights of the sixteenth century actually achieved an originality by introducing classical themes, breaking with the medieval tradition of religious and morality plays. Whereas many critics have considered writers of French Renaissance drama as mere forerunners of the more famous seventeenth-century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521025583
• ISBN13: 9780521025584
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"