Émile Augier (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Guthrie, William Norman

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ISBN 10: 1331162971 ISBN 13: 9781331162971

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2019

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Excerpt from Émile Augier

Now, the cost of the hampering unities should never be mentioned without also alluding to the net gain. The narrow limits set to the action of the French play resulted in an arbitrary, sometimes cruel - but also, at least with masterpieces-a benefi cent and almost miraculous simplification. For suc cess the master needed far greater expertness. The conventions being obtrusive had to be subtler for to] cration. The dramatist became indeed a theatrical prestidigitator, while remaining all the time a poet, and his audience was slowly trained to a full appre ciation of the difficulties surmounted or evaded by the playwright's skill. The revolution in Romantic Drama was wrought in the name of artistic liberty and Shakspere as its hero; witness Hugo's magnilo quent and bellicose introduction to Cromwell. One cannot but suspect, however, that the object was not liberty, but a variety of interest; and hitherto excluded theatrical effects doubtless derived from popular melodrama, - in the case of Hugo, under the cloak of the grand style.

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Excerpt from Émile Augier

Professor Brander Matthews, in "The French Dramatists of the Nineteenth Century," wrote what we cannot but believe to be his most delightful and serviceable book. Dipping into it from time to time since the first careful reading, I for one have never found myself disappointed; so that in furnishing here a few suggestions for the study of Emile Augier (1820-1889), by way of introducing the following efforts at translation of one of his masterpieces, nothing better could probably be done for the average reader than to remind him of the fifth chapter of the above mentioned book, which, while less epigrammatic and brilliant than its fellows on Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas fils respectively, appears to be written con amore and has about it something of an indescribable persuasiveness, due perhaps to the very sobriety of its enthusiasm.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1331162971
• ISBN 13: 9781331162971
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 144