The Sixteenth-Century English "Proverb" Play

Authors

Paula Neuss, Birkbeck College

Abstract

In lieu of an abstract, the first paragraph of the essay follows:

In the drawing rooms of nineteenth-century France, a form of drama known as the "proverbe" was "a play of which a proverb is taken as the foundation of the plot,"¹ and the genre is now being revived in the films of Eric Rohmer, especially in his new series of "Comedies et Proverbes."

Recommended Citation

Neuss, Paula (1984) "The Sixteenth-Century English "Proverb" Play," Comparative Drama: Vol. 18: Iss. 1, Article 1.
Available at: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/compdr/vol18/iss1/1