Kingdom of Disorder: The Theory of Tragedy in Classical FrancePurdue University Press, 1999 - 251 pages In this revisionist study of the poetics of tragedy during the French classical age, John Lyons challenges prevailing notions of a coherent, unified, and widely accepted classical doctrine. |
Contents
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The Rule as Art Form | 15 |
The Return of Taste | 24 |
Chapter Two Passion in the Age of Reason 43 Passion above | 43 |
Means or End? | 48 |
From Horror to Pleasure | 55 |
Closure and Community | 142 |
Place and Space | 147 |
Offstage and Onstage | 159 |
Time and the Eyes Memory | 173 |
From the Tragic Tableau to the Unity of Peril | 187 |
The Tragic Tableau | 188 |
Closure and the Mechanism of Justice | 193 |
The Unity of Peril | 195 |
Suppressing Reason Disrupting Language | 76 |
The World Corrected | 83 |
Sacrificing Verisimilitude for History and Pleasure | 95 |
Colors | 112 |
The Verisimilar Character or Bienséance | 122 |
Chapter Four The Unities and the Classical Spectator | 140 |
Conclusion | 203 |
Notes | 213 |
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Page viii - In the unity of time you find them so scrupulous that it yet remains a dispute among their poets, whether the artificial day of twelve hours, more or less, be not meant by Aristotle, rather than the natural one of twenty-four; and consequently, whether all plays ought not to be reduced into that compass.
Page 2 - Il est constant qu'il ya des préceptes, puisqu'il ya un art; mais il n'est pas constant quels ils sont. On convient du nom sans convenir de la chose, et on s'accorde sur les paroles pour contester sur leur signification. Il faut observer l'unité d'action, de lieu, et de jour, personne n'en doute; mais ce n'est pas une petite difficulté de savoir ce que c'est que cette unité d'action, et jusques où peut s'étendre cette unité de jour et de lieu.
Page viii - I have not observed any that have extended the time to thirty hours: in the Unity of Place they are full as scrupulous; for many of their...