The Art of Voltaire's Theater

An Exploration of Possibility

von Marie Wellington

260 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This study of Voltaire's theater points out the dramaturgical elements of situations, character types, theme and technique. Their specification and categorization emphasize a system and shed light on a practical theory deriving from a close reading of Voltaire's dramatic works. Aside from linking him to his seventeenth-century predecessors in tragedy, his approach offers an ideological consistency equally relevant to his comedies. Showing how closely allied Voltaire's plays are to each other and the possibilities for deviation within similarity, this work provides a new perspective on Voltaire's theater. It is the product of a man of the theater who relegates his role as philosopher to a secondary level, thus exploiting his philosophical notions to the benefit of his dramatic intent.

• Reihe: American University Studies
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein 1600 bis 1800
• ISBN: 9780820404837
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.10.1987
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York