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According to Berrégard, Rayssiguier's status as a "minor" playwright can be explained by the facts that he only wrote six plays over a short span of six years, that he did not write tragedy, and that his plays were written and performed early in the seventeenth century, when theater h...

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Published inSeventeenth-century news Vol. 81; no. 3/4; pp. 73 - 77
Main Author Mangerson, Polly
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published College Station Seventeenth-Century News 01.10.2023
Subjects
17th century
Aesthetics
Drama
Dramatists
Genre
Literary characters
Literary movements
Novels
Professional relationships
Readership
Theater
Tragicomedy
Trends
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Summary:According to Berrégard, Rayssiguier's status as a "minor" playwright can be explained by the facts that he only wrote six plays over a short span of six years, that he did not write tragedy, and that his plays were written and performed early in the seventeenth century, when theater had not yet attained a prestigious status. Each play includes its own introduction by the respective editor, which provides information about the origins of the story, plot summary and analysis, character descriptions, details about how Rayssiguier adapted the text from its original source, and an etablissement du texte. In order to adapt ĽAstrée for the stage, Rayssiguier had to condense and re-shape this enormous novel into an appropriate length and breadth for performance. [...]the present edition serves to bring much-needed awareness to a lesser-known writer, and to expand the readership of Rayssiguier's works by connecting his oeuvre to other genres, authors, and literary movements of the early seventeenth century.