UID:
almahu_9949384732002882
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 196 pages)
ISBN:
9781317097419
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1317097416
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9781315594972
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1315594978
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9781317097426
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1317097424
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9781317097402
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1317097408
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in renaissance literature and culture ; 37
Content:
The first book-length study devoted to this topic offers an important contribution to scholarship on the theatre as well as on early modern attitudes in France, specifically on the subject of lying and deception. Unusually for a scholarly work on seventeenth-century theatre, it is particularly alert to plays as performed pieces and not simply printed texts. The study also distinguishes itself by offering original readings of MoliAre alongside innovative analyses of other playwrights. The chapters offer fresh insights on well-known plays by MoliAre and Pierre Corneille but also invite readers to discover lesser-known works of the time (by writers such as Benserade, Thomas Corneille, Dufresny and Rotrou). Through comparative and sustained close readings, including a linguistic and speech act approach, a historical survey of texts with an analysis of different versions and a study of irony, the reader is shown the manifest ways in which different playwrights incorporate the comedic tropes of lying and scheming, confusion and unmasking. Drawing particular attention to the levels of communicative or mis-communicative exchanges on the character-to-character axis and the character-to-audience axis, this work examines the process whereby characters in the comedies construct narratives designed to trick, misdirect, dazzle, confuse or exploit their interlocutors.
Note:
Chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Perspectives on lying -- chapter 2 Fantastical lies and the gure of the braggart soldier -- chapter 3 Moliere's Dom Juan: The evolution of the character -- chapter 4 The parasitical nature of lying: A study of Le Tartuffe -- chapter 5 Mendacity and metamorphosis: The case of Benserade's Iphis et Iante.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Wilton-Godberfforde, Emilia. Mendacity and the figure of the liar in seventeenth-century French comedy. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017 ISBN 9781472413581
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
DOI:
10.4324/9781315594972
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315594972
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781317097426
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