What exactly are masques and bergamasques? - Literature Stack …
The line is a bit of a pun. A "masque" is a masked ball, and in this case refers to the kind of music played at masques. The name actually has a somewhat convoluted history, originally referring to a masked drama in France, then to a stylized dance in Elizabethan England, and that use re-exported back to France.
history of literature - In what way were Stuart court masques …
2024年7月11日 · Masques in particular are allegorical almost by definition, certainly by design; Jonson's Hymenæi furnishes an example. Theoretical discussions during this period about the nature and purpose of literature also are suffused with Neoplatonic ideas, as can be seen in the most prominent of such works in the English language, Sidney's A Defence of ...
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2021年2月24日 · In what way were Stuart court masques examples of neoplatonic idealism? In his introduction to Women Beware Women and Other Plays (Oxford University Press, 1999, page ix), Richard Dutton writes, It seems unlikely that Thomas Middleton would …
Have any Middleton manuscripts other than A Game at Chess …
2024年7月30日 · The work has been done for us by the Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450–1700!All we have to do is go to the author page for Thomas Middleton and search for “autograph” and “Middleton’s hand”.
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Does Jonathan Culler view literary theory itself as a historical ...
2020年12月8日 · Literary Theory: a Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Culler has the following quote in it (in chapter 1 of the 2nd edition): Theory is often a pugnacious critique of common-sense notations, and
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What are "rent and waistline parties"?
2024年12月19日 · Rent Party. A rent party (sometimes called a house party) is a social occasion where tenants hire a musician or band to play and pass the hat to raise money to pay their rent, originating in Harlem during the 1920s.
2 Related Poems by Rimbaud and Verlaine
2022年1月5日 · I'm looking for two poems by Rimbaud and Verlaine. They escape to Belgium together, went to a town party, and both wrote a poem about the event. Verlaine was really straightforward, and classical.
Do we have any solid evidence for how much material Middleton ...
2021年3月1日 · Although Middleton was not a prolific masquewright ... he wrote more masques into his plays than any of his contemporaries, and up to 1611 was the only dramatist to take the device outside the repertoire of the children's troupes. (p. 58) Middleton's chief contribution to Macbeth appears to have been the insertion of masque-like elements. Gary ...