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Meere Michael (Assistant Professor Of French And Medieval Studies Wesleyan University) - Onstage Violence In Sixteenth - Century French Tragedy Performance Ethics Poetics - Hardcover
Meere Michael (Assistant Professor Of French And Medieval Studies Wesleyan University) - Onstage Violence In Sixteenth - Century French Tragedy Performance Ethics Poetics - Hardcover
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Description: The performance of violence on the stage has played an integral role in French tragedy since its inception. Onstage Violence in Sixteenth - Century French Tragedy is the first book to tell this story. It traces and examines the ethical and poetic stakes of violence as playwrights were experimenting with the newly discovered genre during decades of religious and civil war (c. 1550 - 1598). The study begins with an overview of the origins of French vernacular tragedy and the complex relationships between violence performance ethics and poetics. The volume focuses on specific plays and analyzes biblical mythological historical and politically topical tragedies - - including the stories of Cain and Abel David and Goliath Medea the Sultans leyman the Magnificent the Roman general Regulus and the assassination of the Duke of Guise in 1588 - - to show how the multifarious uses of violence on stage shed light on a range of pressing issues during that turbulent time such as religion gender politics and militantism.
Title: Onstage Violence In Sixteenth - Century French Tragedy Performance Ethics Poetics
Author(s): Meere Michael (Assistant Professor Of French And Medieval Studies Wesleyan University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780192844132
Pages: 256 Pages, 10 Illustrations
Publication Date: 1/28/2022
Category: Early Modern History: C 1450/1500 To C 1700
Description: The performance of violence on the stage has played an integral role in French tragedy since its inception. Onstage Violence in Sixteenth - Century French Tragedy is the first book to tell this story. It traces and examines the ethical and poetic stakes of violence as playwrights were experimenting with the newly discovered genre during decades of religious and civil war (c. 1550 - 1598). The study begins with an overview of the origins of French vernacular tragedy and the complex relationships between violence performance ethics and poetics. The volume focuses on specific plays and analyzes biblical mythological historical and politically topical tragedies - - including the stories of Cain and Abel David and Goliath Medea the Sultans leyman the Magnificent the Roman general Regulus and the assassination of the Duke of Guise in 1588 - - to show how the multifarious uses of violence on stage shed light on a range of pressing issues during that turbulent time such as religion gender politics and militantism.
Title: Onstage Violence In Sixteenth - Century French Tragedy Performance Ethics Poetics
Author(s): Meere Michael (Assistant Professor Of French And Medieval Studies Wesleyan University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780192844132
Pages: 256 Pages, 10 Illustrations
Publication Date: 1/28/2022
Category: Early Modern History: C 1450/1500 To C 1700