You might also like

More about Dramatic Proverbs

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 172 loyalty points

Book synopsis

This translated edition of Madame de Maintenon’s school plays showcases their emphasis on the importance of girls’ self-reliance and resilience in an accessible and engaging format for modern students. Madame de Maintenon’s Dramatic Proverbs provides unprecedented access to an important transitional marker between the society games of the salon and the education theater of the eighteenth century. Composed for the impoverished female pupils at the boarding school she and King Louis XIV founded at Saint-Cyr, Maintenon’s dramatic proverbs crucially reveal the values emphasized in female education at the end of the seventeenth century—a period plagued by economic crisis and growing aristocratic poverty. Some of the first to exclusively express a woman’s point of view, Maintenon’s dramatic proverbs challenged traditional female education and promoted improved conditions for women. The proverbs contributed uniquely to improvisational educational theater, inaugurating a tradition that continued well into the eighteenth century. This edition of the plays aims to privilege accessibility and accuracy so that twenty-first-century students can act out, interpret, and discuss these historical texts.

Book details

Book category Books in German Belletristik Erzählende Literatur Hauptwerk vor 1945

• Full title: Dramatic Proverbs
• Author: Theresa Varney Kennedy, Paige Tierney
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 338
• EAN: 9781649591289
• ISBN: 1649591284
• ID: 47580405
• Publisher: Iter Press
• Weight: 454 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. June 2025

Trending among others

---

---

---