Robert Garnier
Robert Garnier | |
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Université de Toulouse | |
Period | Before 1568 – 1590 |
Literary movement | French Renaissance |
Robert Garnier (c. 1545
Biography
He published his first work while still a law-student at
In his early plays he was a close follower of the school of dramatists who were inspired by the study of
In 1582 and 1583 he produced his two masterpieces Bradamante and Les Juives. In Bradamante, which alone of his plays has no chorus, he cut himself adrift from Senecan models, and sought his subject in
Gamier must be regarded as the greatest French tragic poet of the Renaissance and the precursor of the baroque theater of the 17th century.[5] He exercised a major influence on the development of Elizabethan tragedy. Thomas Kyd is the likely author of an English translation of Cornélie published in England in the early 1590s.
Plays
- Porcie, tragedy , Paris, Robert Estienne, 1568 (éd. J.-C. Ternaux, Paris, Champion, 1999)
- Hippolyte, tragedy , Paris, Robert Estienne, 1573 (éd. R. Lebègue, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1949 et J.-D. Beaudin, Paris, Garnier, 2009)
- Cornélie, tragedy , Paris, Robert Estienne, 1574 (éd. J.-C. Ternaux, Paris, Champion, 2002)
- Marc-Antoine, tragedy , Paris, M. Patisson, 1578 (éd. J.-C. Ternaux, Paris, Garnier, 2010)
- La Troade, tragedy , Paris, M. Patisson, 1579 (éd. J.-D. Beaudin, Paris, Champion, 1999)
- Antigone ou la Piété, tragedy , Paris, M. Patisson, 1580 (éd. J.-D. Beaudin, Paris, Champion, 1997)
- Bradamante, tragicomedy, Paris, M. Patisson, 1582
- Les Juives, tragedy , Paris, M. Patisson, 1583 (éd. par S. Lardon, Paris, Champion, 1999; éd. Michel Jeanneret, Gallimard, Folio- Théâtre, 2007)
References
- ^ "Theatrical production | Definition, Characteristics, Examples, & Facts | Britannica". 26 December 2023.
- ISBN 2-253-05301-5.. On notera cependant que d'autres ouvrages, plus anciens, donnent 1534 comme année de naissance. Tels : Claude Augé dir. (1922). Larousse universel en 2 volumes, tome premier (in French). Paris: Maison Larousse., et : Les Écrivains célèbres, tome II. La galerie des hommes célèbres (in French). Paris: Éditions d'art Lucien Mazenod. 1951. p. 356.
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- ISBN 978-1-78188-632-8..
- ^ a b c d e public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Garnier, Robert". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 472. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the