French Sacred Drama from Bèze to Corneille: Dramatic Forms and Their Purposes in the Early Modern Theatre

by J. S. Street

Originally published in 1983, this was the first comprehensive study of the French sacred theatre during the crucial transition from the medieval to the modern conception of drama. Although some hundreds of sacred plays were written between 1550 and 1650, the genre was largely ignored by subsequent critics, deterred by deliberately non-naturalistic styles. The author explores the use of techniques which were not consecrated by later critical opinion,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521155274
• ISBN13: 9780521155274
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"