Baroque theatricality in the Mediterranean storytelling. G. B. Basile and Lo Cunto de li Cunti

HURBÁNKOVÁ, Šárka. Baroque theatricality in the Mediterranean storytelling. G. B. Basile and Lo Cunto de li Cunti. In University of Wroclaw, Insitute of Classical, Mediterranean and Oriental Studies, 27 November 2018. 2018.

Basic information

Original name

Baroque theatricality in the Mediterranean storytelling. G. B. Basile and Lo Cunto de li Cunti

Authors

HURBÁNKOVÁ, Šárka

Edition

University of Wroclaw, Insitute of Classical, Mediterranean and Oriental Studies, 27 November 2018, 2018

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Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Vyžádané přednášky

Field of Study

60206 Specific literatures

Country of publisher

Poland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords in English

G. B. Basile; Lo Cunto de li Cunti; Baroque Theatricality; Cupid and Psyche motifs

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Abstract

V originále

The lecture presented the Baroque writer G.B. Basile and theatrical elements in his work. As prominent scholars used to do, Basile moved from court to court and wrote poems, musical dramas and pastoral plays for his patrons. This activity was an existential necessity for him, while, presumably for his pleasure, he collected inspiration in various places in Italy, which he was in charge of, and wrote Lo Cunto de li Cunti, a collection of the first literary European fairy-tales that made him famous posthumously. The direct allusions, as well as possible influences of theatre forms on comic and tragicomic situations in Basile's fairy-tales, were discussed, with a special emphasis on three fairy-tales with Cupid and Psyche motifs.