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Moliare
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 123

Moliare

Provides reviews of six works by the poet Moliere along with criticism and thematic analysis of other works and a short biography of the poet.

Hearings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1624

Hearings

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1944
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Department of Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1120
Laughing Matters
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 282

Laughing Matters

Bawdy satirical plays—many starring law clerks and seminarians—savaged corrupt officials and royal policies in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century France. The Church and the royal court tolerated—and even commissioned—such performances, the audiences for which included men and women from every social class. From the mid-sixteenth century, however, local authorities began to temper and in some cases ban such performances. Sara Beam, in revealing how theater and politics were intimately intertwined, shows how the topics we joke about in public reflect and shape larger religious and political developments. For Beam, the eclipse of the vital tradition of satirical farce in late medieval and...

The French Language and British Literature, 1756-1830
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

The French Language and British Literature, 1756-1830

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-03-31
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  • Publisher: Routledge

From the 1750s to the 1830s, numerous British intellectuals, novelists, essayists, poets, playwrights, translators, educationalists, politicians, businessmen, travel writers, and philosophers brooded about the merits and demerits of the French language. The decades under consideration encompass a particularly tumultuous period in Anglo-French relations that witnessed the Seven Years' War (1756-1763), the American War of Independence (1775-1783), the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1792-1802 and 1803-1815, respectively), the Bourbon Restoration (1814-1830), and the July Revolution (1830) - not to mention the gradual expansion of the British Empire, and the complex cultural shifts that led ...

Hearings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1678

Hearings

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1944
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Comparative Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 458

Comparative Literature

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1979
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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