| Description |
viii, 209 pages, 11 plates. illustrations, facsimile, plans. 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [187]-205. |
| Contents |
The plays. Pleiade comedy: 1552-1574 -- Italianate comedy: 1575-1588 -- To Corneille's Melite: 1589-1630 -- The stage. The illustrated editions of Terence -- Farces -- Italian comedy -- Medieval stage sets, Serlio, and the Memoire de Mahelot -- Performances -- The evidence of the plays: 1552-1570 -- The evidence of the plays: 1571-1630 -- Action on stage: styles of acting; costumes; properties; masks; stage directions -- The conventions. Comic theory in the French Renaissance -- Plot -- Character -- Speech. |
| Subject |
French drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism.
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French drama -- 16th century -- History and criticism.
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French drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
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Renaissance -- France.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Jeffery, Brian, 1938- French Renaissance comedy, 1552-1630. Oxford, Clarendon P., 1969 (OCoLC)580939071 |
| ISBN |
0198153910 |
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9780198153917 |
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