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Philippe Quinault, Dramatist (Paperback, New edition)
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Philippe Quinault, Dramatist (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Medieval and Early Modern French Studies, 6
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Much work has been done in recent years on Quinault's librettos,
but no major study of his spoken plays has appeared since the
monumental thesis by Etienne Gros, published in 1926. Moreover, he
has never been the subject of a monograph in English. There is a
need to re-assess the influence of his life on his plays, and to
re-evaluate Gros's findings in the light of eighty years' research
into seventeenth-century French theatre in general. This book
rejects the deterministic approach that sees his plays as
apprentice pieces for the greater achievement that is his corpus of
librettos, as well as the implicit comparative approach that
pigeon-holes his work, in passing, by borrowing from the pithy
judgements of Boileau. To what extent does Quinault's steady move
away from comedy and light tragi-comedy to tragedies that combine
love and menace go hand in hand with his search for greater
integrity, better characterisation, and ever more credible
plotting? How did he come to create and retain a tremendously
faithful audience that even the withering mockery of Boileau failed
to discourage? And is there any purpose in retaining the time-worn
comparison between the author of Andromaque and the author of
Astrate?
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