Soeur

Edited by B. Kite

Book cover: Soeur

Extent: 156 pages

Publisher: University of Exeter Press

Subjects: Early Modern & Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies

Series: Exeter French Texts

Language: English

(Paperback) (Published)

(February 2006)

ISBN: 9780859893985

5.79 x 8.27 inches

Price: $30.00

In stock

La Soeur (1645) is one of the liveliest and most successful comedies by Jean Rotrou. The introduction to this new edition assesses the originality of Rotrou’s adaptation. The notes are devoted above all to linguistic questions and to the many exotic allusions found in the text.


La Soeur (1645) is one of the liveliest and most successful comedies by Jean Rotrou. It is an ingenious adaptation, long unidentified, of an Italian comedy, La Sorella (c.1584), by the polygraph Giambattista Della Porta; sometimes it remains close to the original text, at other times it is bold in eliminating superfluous material and in imparting a convincingly French flavour to the dialogue. The introduction to this new edition assesses the originality of Rotrou’s adaptation. The notes are devoted above all to linguistic questions and to the many exotic allusions found in the text.


  • Edited by B. Kite

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