{"data":{"id":"9782386050046","title":"Isabelle : Tragedy by Nicolas de Montreux, c. 1584","description":"Nicolas de Montreux (1561?-1608?), little known today, was a prolific and widely diffused author in a wide range of genres, including drama. Evidence exists that Isabelle was the earliest of his three surviving tragedies, in print by 1584, although extant copies derive from the version annexed to a volume of his popular \u00abbergeries\u00bb published in 1595. The question of date is particularly to the point, given the possibility, cautiously explored in this volume's Introduction, that the play may have contributed to the formation and evolution of Shakespeare's work at an early stage.\r\nBeyond question is Isabelle's participation in the vogue for Italianate romance literature that strongly influenced Elizabethan writing generally. Exceptionally for a French \u00abhumanist\u00bb tragedy of the period, its plot and main characters are adapted from an episode in Ariosto's enormously popular epic Orlando Furioso featuring a confrontation between the lustful Moor Rodomonte and his beautiful captive Isabella. Within a framework drawing eclectically on far-flung elements of Ariosto's vast poem, Montreux converts his source's sensational plot and schematic morality into a study in tragedy precocious for its time and place. Isabelle anticipates his later heroines, Cleopatra (c. 1592) and Sophonisbe (1601), in choosing death as a means of self-affirmation. More remarkably, the boastful and violent Rodomont himself becomes a pitiful victim of the destructive forces he has set in motion.\r\nIn addition to a full Introduction and annotated verse translation, this volume offers the first edition of the French text since the late sixteenth century.\r\nCe volume propose une traduction en vers annot\u00e9e, accompagn\u00e9e d'une riche introduction et de la premi\u00e8re \u00e9dition en fran\u00e7ais depuis la fin du xvie, d'une trag\u00e9die qui a peut-\u00eatre contribu\u00e9 \u00e0 la formation et \u00e0 l'\u00e9volution de l'oeuvre de Shakespeare.","authors":["Richard Hillman","Nicolas de Montreux"],"category_codes":["1000000","1080000","1080200"],"visuals":{"large":"https:\/\/images.epagine.fr\/046\/9782386050046_1_75.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/images.epagine.fr\/046\/9782386050046_1_m.jpg","thumbnail":"https:\/\/images.epagine.fr\/046\/9782386050046_1_v.jpg"},"orderable":true,"show_badge":true,"formatted_price":"28,00 \u20ac","formatted_published_date":"20 f\u00e9vrier 2025","publisher_availability_label":"Sur commande","short_details":"Richard Hillman, Nicolas de Montreux \u2014 Presses Universitaires Fran\u00e7ois Rabelais","translator":"RICHARD HILLMAN","weight":312,"page_count":240,"readership":null,"editor":"Presses Universitaires Fran\u00e7ois Rabelais","price":2800,"published_date":"2025-02-19T23:00:00.000000Z","support":"Grand format","publisher_availability":1,"stock":0,"editions":[],"url":"https:\/\/quaidesbrumes.com\/ouvrage\/9782386050046\/isabelle-tragedy-by-nicolas-de-montreux-c-1584","blog_post":null}}