La Matrone Chinoise: Ou l'Epreuve Ridicule, Comedie (1765) [French]

By Pierre-Rene Lemonnier

La Matronne chinoise is a new critical edition of a two-act comedy by Pierre-Ren Lemonnier, first performed in paris in 1765. Lemonnier adapted a theme which dates back to the Latin writer Petronius and is also present in an old Chinese story that has been more recently taken up by Voltaire: the story of an apparently inconsolable widow who rapidly finds consolation in the arms of another. The edition is accompanied by a full introduction setting out the play's historical and thematic context, along with an analysis of its versification and an appendix reproducing earlier versions of the tale from Petronius to Voltaire.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: French
• ISBN: 085989732X
• ISBN13: 9780859897327
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: University of Exeter Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 9.0"