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- Title
Le comique en vers chez Rostand : le sous-rire du lecteur.
- Authors
DEGOTT, BERTRAND
- Abstract
Little inclined to theoretical formulations, Edmond Rostand owes a lot to Hugo but also to Banville, of whom Rostand is the most popular but also the most controversial heir. Our purpose here is to study the modalities of the versified comic in his drama and poetry. Rostand handles rhyme with rare brio, in particular in his drama where he remains faithful to traditional verse, sometimes to the point of insipidity. Such trends were to assert themselves as his work progressed, resulting in a noticeable hypertrophy of the funambulesque. However, Rostand being at first an elegiac, his poetry resorts to the comic in a more moderate way. To the laughter of the spectator in the theatre we can thus oppose the verse-induced sub-laughter of the reader.
- Subjects
LES musardises (Book); PIERROT qui pleure et Pierrot qui rit (Play); ROSTAND, Edmond, 1868-1918; LES deux Pierrots ou le souper blanc (Play); COMIC, The; 19TH century French poetry; 19TH century French drama; DRAMA criticism; LITERARY criticism; POETRY (Literary form)
- Publication
Études Françaises, 2015, Vol 51, Issue 3, p77
- ISSN
0014-2085
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.7202/1034132ar