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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3CHAPTER IV MODERN VERSIONS OF THE THAIS LEGEND. Anatole France And Hrotsvitha. The Thais legend threatened to pass into oblivion when a sudden renaissance of interest in the Rara avis in Saxonia, as Bodo called Hrotsvitha, took place in the nineteenth century. In 1839, Gustav Freytag wrote his dissertation textit{De Hrosvitha Poetria in Germany and in the same year Charles Magnin wrote his article textit{Hrosvita: De la Comtdie au dixieme Siecle with a translation of textit{Paphnutius in the textit{Revue des deux Mondes in France. Six years later Magnin's complete translation of the six comedies appeared and it was the echo of this book which in all probability aroused the interest of Anatole France in the eleventh muse, as she was styled by WillibaJd Pirkheimer, a contemporary of Conrad Celtes. That Anatole France had a sincere and loving interest in the Saxon nun is evidenced by the fact that at least two delightful discussions of her are found in textit{La Vie litteraire, which appeared in four series from 1888 to 1892, and contains a large amount of literary criticism that appeared in Le Temps and in scattered articles. The first one occurs in an article on textit{Les Marionettes de M. Signoret in the second series (Calmann-Levy pp. 145-150). It appears that M. Signoret had successfully performed Cervantes and Aristophanes with marionettes and Anatole France was looking forward with gleeful anticipation to the presentation of of Joan of Arc, he remarks, 16 Finally, since it is the nature of man to desire without limits, I formulate a final wish. I shall therefore say that I am very anxious that the marionettes should play one of those dramas of Hroswita, in which the virgins of the Lord speak with so much simplicity. The translation of A. W. Evans, New York 1914, is here used. 90 ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781443272902
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1443272906
  • Publisher Date: 06 Jul 2009
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)


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