French Renaissance Tragedy
Subtitle: The Dramatic Word (Cambridge Studies in French)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 20, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780521025584
Subjects: Plays & playwrights: 16th to 18th centuries; Plays; Literature - Classics / Criticism; French; Continental European; Drama; Drama / Continental European; Drama-Continental European; French drama--16th century--History and criti; French drama--16th century--History and criticism; Literary Criticism / Drama
First sentence: An obvious feature of any sixteenth-century French poetry, of whatever genre, is its allusiveness; this could hardly be otherwise, given the importance of imitation as a principle of poetic creation in the Renaissance, and the Pleiade reliance on a select, well-educated readership who would recognise and appreciate echoes and re-workings of classical models.