La Matrone Chinoise

by Lemonnier, Pierre-Rene

• ISBN13: 9780859897327
• ISBN10: 085989732X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of Exeter Pr

Summary

La Matronne chinoiseis a new critical edition of a two-act comedy by Pierre-Rene Lemonnier, first performed in paris in 1765. Lemonnier adapted a theme which dates back to the Latin writer Petronius and is also present in an old Chinese story that has been more recently taken up by Voltaire: the story of an apparently inconsolable widow who rapidly finds consolation in the arms of another. The edition is accompanied by a full introduction setting out the play's historical and thematic context, along with an analysis of its versification and an appendix reproducing earlier versions of the tale from Petronius to Voltaire.

Author Biography

Ling-Ling Sheu is Associate Professor in the Department of French, Tamkang University of Taipei.

Table of Contents

Fac-similé de la page de titre de l'édition originale	vii
Fac-similé d'Acte I, scène 1ère vv. 40-65	viii
Préface	ix
Introduction	1	(26)
Lemonnier et son oeuvre	2	(2)
La représentation de La Matrone chinoise	4	(1)
Registres du Théâtre-Italien (1765), à la Bibliothèque de l'Opéra	5	(4)
Le thème de la a Matrone d'Ephèse >>	9	(4)
Originalité de La Matrone chinoise	13	(6)
Versification	19	(3)
Présentation du texte	22	(5)
La Matrone chinoise, ou l'épreuve ridicule	27	(62)
Préface	29	(4)
Texte	33	(52)
Notes	85	(4)
Documentation thématique	89	(24)
I Pétrone, Satiricon	89	(3)
II Zhuang Zhou, Zhuangzi	92	(2)
III Du Halde, Description (...) de la Chine	94	(14)
IV Voltaire, Zadig	108	(2)
V Fréron, Journal étranger	110	(3)
Bibliographie	113