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Les Perles ou Les Larmes de La Saincte Magdeleine
Av César de Nostredame, Robert T. Corum, Jr.
Häftad, 1986
317 kr
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Critical edition, edited by Robert T. Corum, of the early seventeenth-century religions poem by César de Nostredame (1553-1629).
Merveilles de la Terre d'Outremer
Häftad, 1991
529 kr
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A critical editon of Jean de Vignay's 14th-century Les Merveilles de la Terre d'Outremer, a translation of the travelogue of Odoric, a Franciscan monk from northeastern Italy who spent much of the early 14th century traveling throughout Asia. His adventures provided one of the most important …
Beverlei
Häftad, 1989
317 kr
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An eighteenth-century "bourgeois tragedy", written in an English style. This is an important text, which provides an appreciation of the spirit of the era, and demonstrates the bridging of comic and tragic theatre styles.
Pour Louis Bouilhet
Av Gustave Flaubert, Alan Raitt
Häftad, 2010
345 kr
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A selection of extracts documenting the friendship between Louis Bouilhet and Gustave Flaubert.
Vie de Saint Alexis
Häftad, 1995
509 kr
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This is the first critical edition of a neglected version of the Life of Saint Alexis found in a late twelfth century manuscript written in England containing several other saints’ lives, and now, after many adventures, in the Bibliothèque nationale. Whereas other versions often stress the saint’s …
Empsaël Et Zoraïde
Av Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Roger Little
Häftad, 1995
345 kr
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Bernardin de Saint-Pierre is for most people the author of one book: Paul et Virginie. This new edition of his play Empsaël et Zoraïde, presented in a modernised spelling, makes available a considerably more muscular text which illustrates his abolitionist stance through its central irony: the …
Tromperies
Av Pierre de Larivey, Keith Cameron m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
317 kr
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Pierre de Lavirey was born in the east of France in 1541 and died in 1619 in Troyes. Little is known about him or his life, but, in addition to his translations of various Italian books, he has left behind him adaptations into French of nine Italian plays which make him one of the most prolific …
Ourika
Av Madame de Duras, Roger Little
Häftad, 1998
345 kr
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Ourika is the story of an African girl growing up in France: based on a true story, it was a runaway bestseller following its first publication in Paris in 1823. It is now seen as a novel of exceptional psychological penetration and intercultural interest, anticipating Fanon in several ways. Race, …
Petit Glossaire Pour Servir A L'Intelligence Des Auteurs Decadents Et Symbolistes
Av Paul Adam, Patrick McGuinness
Häftad, 1998
345 kr
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This glossary, published in 1888, is the only work of its kind produced by Decadent and Symbolist writers themselves, and is full of ‘definitions’ as mystifying as the words they claim to define. It offers both a scholarly and a humorous examination of linguistic innovation and succeeds in showing …
Toussaint Louverture
Av Alphonse de Lamartine, Léon-François Hoffman
Häftad, 1998
345 kr
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This is a new critical edition of an unjustly forgotten drama by Alphonse de Lamartine, written in the early 1840s but only given its first, and last, performance in Paris in 1850. It draws a compelling image of Toussaint Louverture, the father of Haitian Independence. Lamartine proved something of …
Le Commerce du Parnasse
Av Françoise Pascal, Deborah Steinberger
Häftad, 2001
509 kr
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This critical edition of Françoise Pascal’s epistolary collection Le Commerce du Parnasse (Paris, 1669) highlights a rare, innovative and entertaining work by a woman writer virtually unknown today, but in her time a distinguished playwright, poet and painter.Composed of thirty-seven letters in …
L'Eugene
Av Etienne Jodelle, Keith Cameron
Häftad, 1987
317 kr
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Étienne Jodelle, seigneur de Limodin, was a French dramatist and poet, was born in Paris in 1532 to a noble family and died in poverty in 1573. He attached himself to the group of 16th-century French Renaissance poets known as thePléiade and applied their principles to his work. Eugène, a comedy …
Jodelet ou le Maistre Valet
Av Paul Scarron, William J. Dixon
Häftad, 1986
317 kr
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Critical edition of the comedy dating from 1664.
Mort des Enfans d'Herodes
Av La Calprenède, G. P. Snaith
Häftad, 1988
317 kr
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The play La Mort des Enfans d’Herode was first performed in Paris in 1639. This book is a critical edition, with introduction, notes and bibliography, and the original text of the play, all in French.
Letters from the Carlist War (1874-1876)
Av Vincent Kennett-Barrington, Alice L. Lascelles m. fl.
Häftad, 1987
293 kr
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Sir Vincent Hunter Barrington Kennett-Barrington (1844-1903), was a humanitarian worker and businessman. He was associated with the British League of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, which in turn led to his involvement with the Society for Aiding and Ameliorating the Condition of the Sick and …
Jean Calas
Tragédie
Av Marie-Joseph de Chénier, M.C. Cook
Häftad, 1987
317 kr
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Critical edition, edited by Malcolm Cook, of 5-act tragedy by Marie-Joseph Chénier (1764-1811), first performed in 1791.
Vers Ispahan
Av Pierre Loti, K. Anthony Kelly m. fl.
Häftad, 1989
297 kr
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A critical edition of this early twentieth-century travel book by the French travel writer Pierre Loti (1850-1923).
Mariamne
Häftad, 1989
317 kr
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A critical edition of Alexandre Hardy's Mariamne, a tragedy drawing on the story of the wife of Herod the Great. First published in 1989 by University of Exeter Press, it is part of the Textes Litteraires series.
Histoire de Calejava
Av Claude Gilbert, Marc Serge Rivière
Häftad, 1990
317 kr
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Depicts a group of characters in a mysterious land, but is more concerned with philosophical dialogue than exotic adventure. The characters debate the customs and thoughts of the Avaïtes, the people of the imaginary land of Calejava. An eighteenth-century work considered historically significant as …
Alexandre Le Grand
Av Jean Racine, Michael Hawcroft m. fl.
Häftad, 1990
317 kr
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A critical edition by Michael Hawcroft and Valerie Worth of Racine's 1665 tragedy.
Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
Av Stephane Mallarmé, Alan Raitt
Häftad, 1991
317 kr
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An edition, in French, of this 1892 text by Mallarmé. Edited, annotated and introduced by Alan Raitt.
Venceslas
Av D.A. Watts
Häftad, 1991
317 kr
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A tragi-comedy first performed in Paris in 1648.
Othello
Av Jean-Francois Ducis, C.N. Smith
Häftad, 1991
310 kr
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The French-language adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello by Jean-François Ducis was first performed in Paris in 1792. This book is a critical edition, with introduction, notes and bibliography, and the original text of the play, all in French.
Poésies Complètes
Häftad, 1992
317 kr
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A collection of the poetry of Jean de La Péruse, a mid-sixteenth century French poet.
Dynamis
Av Du Ryer, Jean Rohou
Häftad, 1992
317 kr
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Rohou interprets Dynamis as an orthodox tragi-comedy that reflects both the political concerns of the late 1640s and the developments in dramaturgy which had taken place over the previous decade or so. Rohou is most helpful in pointing out, in footnotes and a brief glossary, differences between Du …
Mustapha et Zéangir
Häftad, 1992
317 kr
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An historical tragedy by an eighteenth century playwright.Each volume in the series is available individually, and a special subscription rate is available in advance of publication for each group of four forthcoming titles. Details are available on request from the University of Exeter Press.
L’ Art de Régner
Av Gillet de la Tessonerie, P.E. Chaplin
Häftad, 1994
317 kr
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L’Art de Régner is a tragi-comedy by Gillet de La Tessonerie, first published in 1645. It is unusual in that structurally each of its five acts is a separate playlet. The sub-title, Le Sage Gouverneur, refers to the role of a royal tutor, probably meant to be the duc de Bassompierre, to whom the …
Soeur
Av B. Kite
Häftad, 2006
317 kr
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La Soeur (1645) is one of the liveliest and most successful comedies by Jean Rotrou. It is an ingenious adaptation, long unidentified, of an Italian comedy, La Sorella (c.1584), by the polygraph Giambattista Della Porta; sometimes it remains close to the original text, at other times it is bold in …
Dialogues Révolutionnaires
Av M.C. Cook
Häftad, 1994
317 kr
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Dialogues Révolutionnaires is an edition of twelve fictional dialogues of the Revolutionary period in which the various interlocuters try to come to terms with an evolving political reality and a language which is constantly developing. The dialogues will interest cultural historians wishing to …
Michel Strogoff
Av Adolphe d'Ennery, Jules Verne m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
360 kr
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This is the first critical edition of a Verne play; the book also contains many of his unpublished letters. His theatrical work (40 plays and synopses) was, until now, almost unknown, even though Michel Strogoff was among the greatest successes of the late-19th century theatre.The introduction …
