The Comedy of Habit: An Essay on the Use of Courtesy Literature in a Study of Restoration Comic Drama. D. R. M. Wilkinson

1966 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas H. Fujimura
Keyword(s):  
Comic Drama ◽  
Courtesy Literature

English Comic Drama, 1700-1750.

1930 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 406
Author(s):  
De Witt C. Croissant ◽  
F. W. Bateson
Keyword(s):  
Comic Drama

Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama

Ekfrase ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (02) ◽  
pp. 136-139
Author(s):  
Kristina Arnerud Mejhammar
Keyword(s):  
Comic Drama

Merit in Courtly Literature: Castiglione, Rabelais, Marguerite de Navarre, and Le Caron

1988 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ullrich Langer
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Marguerite De Navarre ◽  
Courtesy Literature ◽  
The Ideal

Spesse volte mi viene un dubbio, s'é dato dal nascimento (come nell'altre cose ancora) ch'i Principi siano propitii & favorevoli verso questi, iniqui & crudeli verso quegli altri, o se pure è posto nella industria nostra…. (Francesco Sansovino,Propositioni in materia di cose di Stato, Vinegia, 1583, fol. 110)Castiglione'sLibro del cortegiano(1528) and Renaissance courtesy literature in general chart an uneven course between the description of an illustrious courtly ideal never fully incarnate and the establishment of a set of rules enabling courtly practice and prescription. These two intentions, one roughly Platonic and the other roughly Aristotelian, are in the end contradictory, for the more substantial the ideal becomes, the less can it accommodate varying experience and therefore practice. The impulse to set forth an ideal as something outside of variety through which experience is to be judged is incompatible with the production of that ideal through the experiential mean of varying extremes.

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