Author : John Holyoake
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis A Critical Study of the Tragedies of Robert Garnier (1545-90) by : John Holyoake
Download or read book A Critical Study of the Tragedies of Robert Garnier (1545-90) written by John Holyoake and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1987 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Garnier is by common consent the greatest tragedian of the French Renaissance. The core of this book consists of detailed critical commentaries on each of his seven tragedies. The stress is placed on the individual qualities of each separate tragedy, although some attention is given to the need to synthesize as well as to Garnier's characteristic qualities. The introduction deals with possible approaches to sixteenth-century tragedy in general while a preliminary chapter traces the historical development of tragedy before Garnier; there are sections on imitation, originality, sources, rhetoric and performance. The author concludes that Garnier does not conform to norms as much as has been claimed and that it is misleading to divide his development so neatly into three phases.