French Renaissance and Baroque Drama (eBook)

Text, Performance, Theory

Michael Meere (Herausgeber)

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2015
364 Seiten
University of Delaware Press (Verlag)
978-1-61149-549-2 (ISBN)

Infos

French Renaissance and Baroque Drama helps us rethink pressing issues of the day, such as war, possession, sacrifice, religious conversion, law, and gender. This volume includes essays that employ a range of cutting-edge approaches to elucidate questions such as the social, religious, legal, and political functions of drama, how the staged body transmits emotions to the audience, and the ways in which drama creates communities of inclusion and exclusion, especially during times of conflict.

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The fifteen articles in this volume highlight the richness, diversity, and experimental nature of French and Francophone drama before the advent of what would become known as neoclassical French theater of the seventeenth century. In essays ranging from conventional stage plays (tragedies, comedies, pastoral, and mystery plays) to court ballets, royal entrances, and meta- and para-theatrical writings of the period from 1485 to 1640, French Renaissance and Baroque Drama: Text, Performance, Theory seeks to deepen and problematize our knowledge of texts, co-texts, and performances of drama from literary-historical, artistic, political, social, and religious perspectives. Moreover, many of the articles engage with contemporary theory and other disciplines to study this drama, including but not limited to psychoanalysis, gender studies, anthropology, and performance theory. The diversity of the essays in their methodologies and objects of study, none of which is privileged over any other, bespeaks the various types of drama and the numerous ways we can study them.

Autor

Michael Meere is visiting assistant professor of French at Wesleyan University.

Inhalt

IllustrationsNotes on Sources and TranslationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: Mystery Plays Reloaded: Performing Demonic Possession in the Histoires véritablesAndreea MarculescuChapter 2: Abraham sacrifiant and the End of EthicsJohn D. LyonsChapter 3: Farce, Community, and the Performativity of Violence in Rabelais’s Quart Livre: The Chiquanous EpisodeCaroline Gates and Michael MeereChapter 4: Calvinist “Comedie” and Conversion during the French Reformation: La comedie du pape malade (1561) and La comedie du monde malade et mal pensé (1568)Sara BeamChapter 5: French Humanist Comedy in Search of an Audience: The Case of Jean de la TailleCorinne NoirotChapter 6: Rethinking the Politics of Court Spectacle: Performance and Diplomacy under the ValoisEllen R. WelchChapter 7: Our Future Barbarism: Sacrifice, the Body, and Performance in Robert Garnier’s Greek TragediesAntónia SzabariChapter 8: Courtroom Drama during the Wars of Religion: Robert Garnier and the Paris ParlementPhillip John UsherChapter 9: From the Politics of Performance to the Anthropology of Festivals: Montaigne’s “Of the Education of Children” (I.26) and “Of Coaches” (III.6)Fabien CavailléChapter 10: Too Late? The Drama of the Cannibals in RouenElizabeth GuildChapter 11: Red and Black, Pink and Green: Jacques de Fonteny’s Gay Pastoral PlayChristian BietChapter 12: Stage Designs of Cruelty: Theater in Rouen at the Turn of the Seventeenth CenturySybile Chevallier-MickiChapter 13: The Court Turned Inside Out: The Collapse of Dignity in Louis XIII’s Burlesque BalletsAlison CalhounChapter 14: Poison in French Tragedy and Tragic Stories, 1600-1636 Stephanie O’HaraChapter 15: Et in Arcadia alter egos: Playing Politics with Pastoral in Two French Baroque DramasRichard HillmanBibliographyAbout the Contributors

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.2.2015
• Co-Autor: Sara Beam, Andreea Marculescu, Corinne Noirot, Stephanie O'Hara, Antonia Szabari, Phillip Usher, Ellen Welch, Christian Biet, Alison Calhoun, Fabien Cavaille, Sybile Chevallier-Micki, Caroline Gates, Elizabeth Guild, Richard Hillman, John D. Lyons
• Zusatzinfo: 6 Illustrations including: - 6 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Communication Studies • Film, TV, & Stage • Francophone Literature • French history • History • Literary Studies • World History
• ISBN-10: 1-61149-549-0 / 1611495490
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61149-549-2 / 9781611495492