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Review. The Role of Money in French Comedy during the Reign of Louis XIV. Forkey, L. O.

Review. The Role of Money in French Comedy during the Reign of Louis XIV. Forkey, L. O.

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Journal Article REVIEWS Get access The Role of Money in French Comedy during the Reign of Louis XIV. By LEO ORVILLE FORKEY. Johns Hopkins Studies in Romance Literatures and Languages, Extra Vol. XXIV). Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins Press (London: Humphrey Milford). 1947. 142 pp. $2.50. J. LOUGH J. LOUGH CAMBRIDGE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume II, Issue 4, October 1948, Pages 366–368, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/II.4.366 Published: 01 October 1948

Notes on the Grotesque: The Comedia De Figurón at Home and Abroad

In the history of literatures, as in the history of the races that produce them, it is axiomatic that often there comes from without some invigorating influence which, on being assimilated, may assume a significance perhaps all out of proportion to its original importance. Such was the effect of the figurón, in the Spanish comedia de figurón, upon the development of a type of uncouth and cowardly lover rôle in seventeenth-century French comedy, such as that of Sganarelle in Molière's Le Manage forcé. Now that we are enabled to study in its proper perspective French dramatic literature of the grand siècle, thanks to Professor Lancaster's monumental work on the subject, it becomes increasingly possible as well as pertinent for those interested in comparative literature to supplement and to underline certain facts already clearly brought out in Mr. Lancaster's six-volume study. In this paper I wish to present some observations on the literary antecedents of the figurón in Spanish drama and an interpretation of the significance of the figurón, together with a few comments upon French treatment of this type as transplanted by Paul Scarron and Thomas Corneille.

The Plot and its Construction in Eighteenth Century Criticism of French Comedy. A Study of Theory with Relation to the Practice of Beaumarchais.

The Plot and its Construction in Eighteenth Century Criticism of French Comedy. A Study of Theory with Relation to the Practice of Beaumarchais.

The Commedia dell' Arte and Its Influence on French Comedy in the Seventeenth Century

The Commedia dell' Arte and Its Influence on French Comedy in the Seventeenth Century

The First Six Decades of French Seventeenth-Century Comedy

The First Six Decades of French Seventeenth-Century Comedy

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Book reviewed in this article:Le Roi des Montagnes by Edmond About, edited with introduction, notes, exercises and vocabulary by Frances B. WilsonColomba, by Prosper Mérimée, edited with introduction, notes and vocabulary by Victor E. François. Drawings by Herbert Deland WilliamsContes du Pays de Merlin, compiled by Helen W. Van Buren and illustrated by George Gillett WhitneyScenes of Familiar Life, arranged progressively for students of colloquial French, by Mrs. J. G. Frazer, with questionnaire by Messrs. Von Glehn and Sallé. Illustrated by H. M. BrockLa Nouvelle France, by Frank Louis SchoellLe Retour des soldats. A French comedy in one act. By Eugène MaloubierManual of Military German, by Frederick W. C. Lieder and Ray W. PettengillStudies in Spanish‐American Literature. Isaac Goldberg, Ph.D. With an introduction by Professor J. D. M. Ford

An Easy French ComedyLabiche's, La Poudre aux Yeux. C. P. Lebon

Previous articleNext article FreeEducational WritingsAn Easy French Comedy Labiche's, La Poudre aux Yeux. C. P. Lebon Katharine M. Slaught, and A. Marie Côté WeaverKatharine M. Slaught Search for more articles by this author , and A. Marie Côté Weaver Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Volume 28, Number 1Jan., 1920 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/437124 Views: 36 Journal History This article was published in The School Review (1893-1979), which is continued by the American Journal of Education (1979-present). PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.