Haunted Purgatory : Boccaccio's Decameron 3.8 as an
Eighteenth-Century Afterpiece

J 2021

Haunted Purgatory : Boccaccio's Decameron 3.8 as an Eighteenth-Century Afterpiece

KRAJNÍK, Filip

Basic information

Original name

Haunted Purgatory : Boccaccio's Decameron 3.8 as an Eighteenth-Century Afterpiece

Authors

KRAJNÍK, Filip (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Theory and Practice in English Studies (THEPES), Brno, Masarykova univerzita, 2021, 1805-0859

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

60206 Specific literatures

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

Plný text článku.

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/21:00119577

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords in English

Boccaccio; Decameron; intertextuality; Restoration theatre; English theatre of the eighteenth century; Benjamin Griffin; The Humours of Purgatory; farce

Abstract

V originále

The present article addresses the issue of intertextuality of the English theatre of the long Restoration period (1660–1737), using Benjamin Griffin's farce The Humours of Purgatory (1716) as a case study. Although The Humours of Purgatory clearly employs a then popular tale from Boccaccio's Decameron, the study argues that, especially during the play's production, a number of other factors (some of which were beyond the realm of the text) entered the referential framework of the piece, making it virtually impossible to talk about a single source and its straightforward adaptation or a clear-cut genealogy of the work. Employing Marvin Carlson's concept of ghosting (or "haunting"), the study shows how elements of various works from both literary and theatre cultures of the time participated in complex and shifting intertextual networks, with multiple links and relations between their individual members. From the analysis it also transpires that the early eighteenth-century farce was an integral and valuable part of English theatre culture of the time, one that – along with other "lesser" or "popular" theatre forms that helped to shape the performance tradition of the period – deserves more systematic academic attention.

Links

GA19-07494S, research and development project

Name: Anglická divadelní kultura 1660-1737

Investor: Czech Science Foundation

Citovat

KRAJNÍK, Filip. Haunted Purgatory : Boccaccio's Decameron 3.8 as an Eighteenth-Century Afterpiece. Theory and Practice in English Studies (THEPES). Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2021, vol. 10, No 1, p. 49-62. ISSN 1805-0859.

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KRAJNÍK, Filip. Haunted Purgatory : Boccaccio's Decameron 3.8 as an Eighteenth-Century Afterpiece. \textit{Theory and Practice in English Studies (THEPES)}. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2021, vol.~10, No~1, p.~49-62. ISSN~1805-0859.

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