Representing France and the French in early modern English drama / edited by Jean-Christophe Mayer ; with a preface by Ton Hoenselaars.

Other author Mayer, Jean-Christophe.
Format Book
Publication InfoNewark : University of Delaware Press ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, ©2008.
Description247 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Knowledge. --France.
English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600. --History and criticism.
English drama--17th century. --History and criticism.
National characteristics, French, in literature.
Public opinion--Great Britain. --History.
France--In literature.
France--Foreign public opinion, British. --History.
Great Britain--Relations. --France.
France--Relations. --Great Britain.

Contents Shakespeare, Burgundy, and the design in the arras / Dominique Goy-Blanquet -- Mary Sidney's French Sophocles : the Countess of Pembroke reads Robert Garnier / Anne Lake Prescott -- "Worthies away" : the scene begins to cloud in Shakespeare's Navarre / Richard Wilson -- George Chapman's French tragedies, or, Machiavelli beyond the mirror / Gilles Bertheau -- The ironies of Babel in Shakespeare's Henry V / Jean-Christophe Mayer -- "O confusion of languages, and yet no tower of Babel!" : French allusions and Ben Jonson's linguistic project / Florence March -- Roussillon and retrospection in All's well that ends well / Deanne Williams -- Strangers alter et idem : French allusions and the staging of distant lands in early modern drama / Ladan Niayesh -- The "French disease" in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama / Frederique Fouassier -- "False Frenchmen" in Richard Brome's plays / Athina Efstathiou-Lavabre.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 223-233) and index.
LCCN 2007028311
ISBN9780874130003 (alk. paper)
ISBN087413000X (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PR 658.F74 R47 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold