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The Tragedy of the Late Gaspard de Coligny; The Guisiade (Carleton Renaissance Plays in Translation #40)

Richard Hillman

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These translations render accessible in English two sixteenth-century French tragedies composed in swift response to major and bloody political events: respectively, the Saint Bartholomew massacre of Protestants in 1572 and the killing of the Duke and Cardinal of Guise on the orders of Henri III just before Christmas, 1588. Long dismissed as subliterary, these works of theatrical propaganda are now beginning to attract serious attention from specialists in French drama. Chantelouve's play is a minor masterpiece : neo-Senecan conventions are combined with effects drawn from the medieval miracle plays, including comic grotesque, to produce a powerful presentation of the justice of God enacted through human means. Matthieu's GUISIADE is more consistently neo-classical yet no less insistently Christian and political: its rhetorically grandiose evocation of the curse upon the House of Valois incurred by the "Tyrant" effectively presages the latter's assassination. The issues in these plays were of pressing concern to the English and to Marlowe, in particular, who subsequently represented both key events, as well as the murder of Henri III, in THE MASSACRE AT PARIS.

Language: English

Pages: 312

Format: Paperback

Release: January 01, 2005

ISBN 13: 9781895537864

The Tragedy of the Late Gaspard de Coligny; The Guisiade (Carleton Renaissance Plays in Translation #40)

Richard Hillman

0/5 ( ratings)

These translations render accessible in English two sixteenth-century French tragedies composed in swift response to major and bloody political events: respectively, the Saint Bartholomew massacre of Protestants in 1572 and the killing of the Duke and Cardinal of Guise on the orders of Henri III just before Christmas, 1588. Long dismissed as subliterary, these works of theatrical propaganda are now beginning to attract serious attention from specialists in French drama. Chantelouve's play is a minor masterpiece : neo-Senecan conventions are combined with effects drawn from the medieval miracle plays, including comic grotesque, to produce a powerful presentation of the justice of God enacted through human means. Matthieu's GUISIADE is more consistently neo-classical yet no less insistently Christian and political: its rhetorically grandiose evocation of the curse upon the House of Valois incurred by the "Tyrant" effectively presages the latter's assassination. The issues in these plays were of pressing concern to the English and to Marlowe, in particular, who subsequently represented both key events, as well as the murder of Henri III, in THE MASSACRE AT PARIS.

Language: English

Pages: 312

Format: Paperback

Release: January 01, 2005

ISBN 13: 9781895537864

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