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Mocking Andromeda in Julia Constance Fletcher’s The Fantasticks (1900)
Published 2022-10-01“…A particularly aloof and arch intervention in fin-de-siècle gender politics is Fletcher’s stage comedy The Fantasticks (1900). An adaptation of Edmond Rostand’s 1894 comedy Les Romanesques, The Fantasticks has attracted hardly any scholarly attention. …”
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« Mon seul Shakespeare »
Published 2013-01-01“…Disguised as a ‘holy friar’, the Duke secretly observes the consequences of such an abrupt enforcement of moral order. …”
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What lies beyond and within humour: A relevance-theoretic approach to propositional meanings in the sitcom Modern Family
Published 2024-12-01“…The corpus is drawn from the American situation comedy Modern Family (2009-2020), created by Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd. …”
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From Dumas fils’s Étrangère to Wilde’s Aventurière: French Theatrical Forerunners of the Wildean Female Dandy
Published 2010-12-01“…I will particularly focus on two society comedies, Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892) and An Ideal Husband (1895) so as to unearth French female forerunners of his aventurière throughout a series of plays written by boulevard authors such as Victorien Sardou, Emile Augier and Dumas fils. …”
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Lieux et milieux dans le Théâtre de Béziers (XVIIe siècle)
Published 2014-12-01“…Domestics, numerous in comedies, include rakish valets and loose chambermaids. …”
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