ROMANTIC MEMORIES IN CHARLES GOUNOD'S 'SHAKESPEAREAN' OPERA 'ROMEO AND JULIET' (Romantyczne echa w 'szekspirowskiej' operze 'Romeo i Julia' Charles'a Gounoda)

• Authors: Borkowska-Rychlewska Alina
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Gounod's 'Romeo and Juliet' is subject to two overlapping tendencies. The first is the influence of the melodrama and 'piece bien faite', the effect of which is the characters' conventionality, pompousness, loftiness based on astonishment, and theatre effect flagrancy. On the other hand, Gounod's work is the evidence of preservation of some notions peculiar to romanticism (harmony of antithetic elements, belief in eternal existence of love, opennes to infinity) and certifies the strenght of features typical of French romantic drama. Gounod's opera libretto structural similarity to Hugo's works (who rooted the theory of his drama in the analysis of Shakespeare's accomplishment) highlights the link between the opera 'Romeo and Juliet' and Shakespeare's romantic reception. As a result, Gounod's work proves to be an interpretation of Shakespeare's drama subordinated to romantic clarification and set within the framework of French melodrama and 'well-made play'.

Keywords

EN

CHARLES GOUNOD; GOUNOD'S OPERA 'ROMEO AND JULIET'; SHAKESPEARE 'ROMEO AND JULIET'

• Publisher: Instytut Badań Literackich PAN
• Journal: Pamiętnik Literacki
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 102
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 93-109
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Borkowska-Rychlewska Alina

• Alina Borkowska-Rychlewska, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11PLAAAA09345