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Dark comedy.(Euripides. Vol. 5: Helen, Phoenician Women, Orestes)(Euripides. Vol. 6: The Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesus)(Book Review)
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David Kovacs, editor Euripides. Vol. 5: Helen, Phoenician Women, Orestes. 605 pages, $21.50. Vol. 6: The Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesus. 480 pages, $21.50. Loeb Classical Library/ Harvard University Press
What Thucydides says about the total tergiversation of the Greek ethos in the course of the Peloponnesian War remains the best introduction to the late, bleak, crazy plays of Euripides:
Fanatical enthusiasm was the mark of a real
man, and to plot against an enemy behind
his back was perfectly legitimate self-defense.
Anyone who held ...
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L'Imaginaire dans l'oeuvre de Guillaume de Machaut.(Review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum
; ...dans l'oeuvre de Guillaume de Machaut, Bibliotheque du...from the old view of Guillaume de Machaut: the view that he...290), discusses Machaut's concretization...perfectly fleshly Guillaume is the springboard...
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Guillaume de Machaut: 'The Fountain of Love' ('La fonteinne amoureuse') and Two Other Love Vision Poems.
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum
; ...famous knight (p. xxi); Machaut's productions are much more...the poets most influenced by Machaut's models should include Froissart...exotic references: the forthcoming Guillaume de Machaut: A Guide to Research by L. Earp...
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'Le Voir-Dit' de Guillaume de Machaut: Etude litteraire.
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum
; ...proliferation of excellent studies of Machaut and of his Voir-Dit had he lived...here is Imbs's lucid survey of Machaut's literary career, a useful supplement to Armand Machabey's Guillaume de Machaut, 130?-1377 (Paris, 1955...
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The language of love: overstatement and ironic humor in Machaut's 'Voir dit.' (Guillaume de Machaut)
Magazine article from: Philological Quarterly
; ...disillusionment. Although Machaut has rarely been suspected...relationship between Guillaume and his "Toute...possibility never occurs to Guillaume is surely an important part of Machaut's message. We are told only that Guillaume feels as grieved as...
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Guillaume de Machaut: Quatre dits.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum
; Guillaume de Machaut: Quatre dits, trans. Isabelle Betemps...volume offers translations of four of Machaut's shorter and lesser dits: 'Dit de...dit as a genre both generally and for Machaut himself as arch-practitioner, notes...
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Guillaume de Machaut: 'Le Confort d'ami' (Comfort for a Friend).
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum
; ...continuing series of editions and translations of Machaut's poetry. Having begun with two of Machaut's best-known narrative poems -- Le Jugement...the sections of the introduction concerning Machaut's life and artistic achievement, there...
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Guillaume de Machaut.
Magazine article from: Notes
; Guillaume de Machaut. Messe de Nostre Dame [for] Mixed...The Messe de Nostre Dame of Guillaume de Machaut (ca. 1300-1377) is one of the...recordings, see Lawrence Earp's Guillaume de Machaut: A Guide to Research, Garland...
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Guillaume de Machaut: the Capture of Alexandria & La Prise d'Alexandrie (The Taking of Alexandria).(two translations)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum
; Guillaume de Machaut: The Capture of Alexandria, trans. Janet Shirley, introd. and...illustration. ISBN 0-7546-0101-3. [pounds sterling] 37.50. Guillaume de Machaut: La Prise d'Alexandrie (The Taking of Alexandria), ed. and...
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Ardis Butterfield. Poetry and Music in Medieval France from Jean Renart to Guillaume Machaut.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Romanic Review
; ...France from Jean Renart to Guillaume Machaut. Cambridge: Cambridge University...between Adam de la Halle and Guillaume de Machaut occur within a narrative context...de Guillaume de Dole, and Guillaume de Machaut's Remede de Fortune, as...
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Reading the lies of poets: the literal and the allegorical in Machaut's Fonteinne amoureuse.(Guillaume de Machaut)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Philological Quarterly
; ...quarter-century has focused on Guillaume de Machaut's expansion and redefinition...of his collected works. (2) Machaut, in fact, was apparently the...Dame Peronne," the heroine of Machaut's Voir Dit, after the great...
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