Aphra Behn's Emperor of the Moon and its French Source Arlequin, Empereur dans la lune

Aphra Behn's Emperor of the Moon and its French Source Arlequin, Empereur dans la lune

Author
Judy A. HaydenDaniel J. Worden
Publisher
Modern Humanities Research Association
Language
English
Year
2019
Page
176
ISBN
9781781888858
File Type
pdf
File Size
4.3 MiB

Aphra Behn's spectacular farce, Emperor of the Moon (1687), so engaged audiences that it was restaged well into the eighteenth century. Her play was largely adapted from Anne Mauduit de Fatouville's Arlequin, Empereur dans la lune (1684), a commedia dell'arte production by the Comédie-Italienne troupe, a performance which also proved immensely popular with Parisian audiences. Within its witty and amusing three acts, Behn's play explores a number of contemporary concerns -- from commedia dell'arte, to gender and politics, to science and astronomy, including a plurality of worlds, for example -- all culminating in the third act's operatic spectacle. This volume offers a transcription of Behn's 1687 play with extensive annotations, a critical discussion of Behn's text, and the first English translation of Fatouville's eight French and Italian scenes.

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