A Stage For Poets : : Studies in the Theatre of Hugo and Musset / / Charles Affron.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Affron, Charles,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1971
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Essays in Literature ; 1474
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (276 p.)

In the nineteenth century, the French lyric poets imposed their diction on the theatrical genre and thus illuminated the essence of both poetry and theatre. Ten plays by Victor Hugo, the standard-bearer of the French romantic theatre, and Alfred de Musset, the romantic playwright most frequently performed in France today, are analyzed by Charles Affron to answer the question, "Can the dialetic form of the theatre accommodate the solitary élan of the lyric poet?" As a functional point of departure, he considers those characteristics of lyric poetry-time, voice, and metaphor-which bring us closest to the singular attitudes of Hugo and Musset. Then, examining the texts of Hernani, Les Burgraves, Torquemada, Fantasio, and Lorenzaccio as well as several lesser known plays, Mr. Affron discusses such topics as poetic time, the scope of analogy, theatrical and poetic rhetoric, the guises of the poet-hero, and the manner of sounding the poet's voice upon the stage.Originally published in 1971.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Illustrations -- One. Introduction: The Problem of a Poetic Theatre -- Two. The Time of the Lyric: Hernani -- Three. The Time of the Epic: Les Bur Graves -- Four. Lyric Echoes: Nostalgia And Parody Torquemada And Mangeront-Us? -- Five. Analogy and Sentiment: La Nuit Venitienne and Andre Del Sarto -- Six. From Rhetoric to Poetry: Les Caprices De Marianne -- Seven. The Order of Poetry: Fantasio -- Eight. Time and Identity: On Ne Badine Pas Avec Xamour -- Nine. Heroism and Art: Lorenzaccio -- Ten. Conclusion -- Appendix -- A Selected Bibliography -- Index