{"product_id":"poetics-performance-and-politics-in-lucy-rayfield-9781781885123","title":"Poetics, Performance and Politics in French and Italian Renaissance Comedy","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere is nothing funny about comedy in Renaissance France. Comic theatre in the sixteenth century was employed, primarily, as a tool for teaching Latin; it was also judged to be a canny means of enriching and elevating one's national literature and language. Increasingly, comedy was transformed into a political and polemical weapon, capable not only of resisting the influx into France of the forward-looking and fashionable Italian culture, but also of helping to replace the Italians as arbiters of European literature. In this intertextual and cross-cultural survey, Lucy Rayfield explores the productive and at times antagonistic relationship of French playwrights with Italian paradigms, documenting the move from classical comedy regarded as a scholarly exercise to drama revived in print and performance, which was anything but a smooth transition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLucy Rayfield graduated with a doctorate from Balliol College, University of Oxford, in 2019. She is currently a Research Associate in Renaissance French at St Benet's Hall, University of Oxford.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lucy Rayfield\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1781885125\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781781885123\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Legenda\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/14\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.56d","brand":"Lucy Rayfield","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43946060841215,"sku":"9781781885123","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_4e451392-25b8-4c9e-a246-5abdb74faf53.jpg?v=1681511307","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/poetics-performance-and-politics-in-lucy-rayfield-9781781885123","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}