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Si Alexis Piron fut longtemps connu uniquement comme l'auteur de la grande comédie La Métromanie, plus récemment la découverte de quelques-unes de ses pièces foraines, surtout le monologue délirant qu'est Arlequin-Deucalion, révéla un autre aspect de son talent comique. Mais il fut aussi l'auteur de trois tragédies, dont la deuxième, Gustave-Wasa (1733), devint l'une des mieux connues de l'époque. Ce volume présente cette tragédie avec les paratextes préparés par Piron pour sa réédition dans les ¿uvres de 1758. Les incidents foisonnent dans cette aventure de cape et d'épée, qui se déroule sur le fond historique de la fin de l'Union de Kalmar, quand Gustav Vasa chassa de Stockholm Christian II, détenteur de la triple couronne du Danemark, de la Suède et de la Norvège, pour prendre sa place comme roi suédois.

Spring Shoots introduces individually the early work of two score young Belarusian poets, all of whom began writing after the start of the present regime. This is the first such survey in any language, including Belarusian. All poetic illustrations are cited in the original and accompanied by English prose translations. The poets' work is presented in eight loosely thematic groups: the historical heritage, religion, protest at alienation and repression, use and defence of the language, the lyrical impulse, humour, performance poetry and the theme of writing itself and poetic inspiration. Also very important in these poems are the joys and tribulations of love. By using the Belarusian language, the poets are helping to save it from decades of erosion and official devaluation, so that their discussion of it is often poignant, particularly as language is a central part of the also suppressed historical heritage. Other types of verse such as humorous, lyrical or that for performance, are less central to the Belarusian situation, but the angry and bitter protest poems serve as perhaps a release valve, as small editions of poems are far less conspicuous than the expression of such feelings on the street, which always meets bitter reprisals.

PORTUGUESESTUDIESVolume 31 Number 22015In Medieval Mode:Collected Essays in Honour ofStephen Parkinson on his Retirement