Alexis Piron, Le Claperman and L’Âne d’or
Edited by Derek Connon
Click cover to enlarge Buy paperback at: Booksellers & libraries: | Modern Humanities Research Association 1 December 2022 ISBN: 978-1-839542-54-1 (paperback) • RRP £16.99, $19.99, €19.99 ISBN: 978-1-839542-55-8 (JSTOR ebook) Sample: Google Books • Access online: Books@JSTOR Alexis Piron was a significant figure in France in the first part of the eighteenth century and his twenty or so opéras-comiques include some of the finest works in the genre. The two plays included in this edition are among Piron’s best, and have in common the fact that they make use of pre-existing sources, although these are very different in kind, being, on the one hand, a short and obscure text made available by a group of writers working in the Netherlands but writing in French, and, on the other, one of the best known works of classical literature, the only novel in Latin to survive complete, The Golden Ass of Apuleius. The introduction studies how these disparate texts have been adapted, and notes draw attention to points of detail, comparing and contrasting the two plays. The background to the development of the genre of opéra-comique is also discussed, as is Piron’s use of the musical material associated with the genre in the first decades of its existence. Derek Connon is Emeritus Professor of French at Swansea University. Contents:
Bibliography entry: Connon, Derek (ed.), Alexis Piron, Le Claperman and L’Âne d’or, Critical Texts, 84 (Cambridge: MHRA, 2022) First footnote reference: 35 Alexis Piron, Le Claperman and L’Âne d’or, ed. by Derek Connon, Critical Texts, 84 (Cambridge: MHRA, 2022), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Connon, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Connon, Derek (ed.). 2022. Alexis Piron, Le Claperman and L’Âne d’or, Critical Texts, 84 (Cambridge: MHRA) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Connon 2022: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Connon 2022: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) This title is distributed on behalf of MHRA by Ingram’s. Booksellers and libraries can order direct from Ingram by setting up a free ipage® Account: click here for more. Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Alexis-Piron-Le-Claperman-LÂne-dor www.mhra.org.uk/publications/ct-84 |