Onstage Violence in Sixteenth-Century French Tragedy: Performance, Ethics, Poetics by Meere, Michael

Onstage Violence in Sixteenth-Century French Tragedy: Performance, Ethics, Poetics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780192844132)

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Onstage Violence in Sixteenth-Century French Tragedy: Performance, Ethics, Poetics by Meere, Michael

Onstage Violence in Sixteenth-Century French Tragedy: Performance, Ethics, Poetics

$95.00
Onstage Violence in Sixteenth-Century French Tragedy: Performance, Ethics, Poetics by Meere, Michael

Onstage Violence in Sixteenth-Century French Tragedy: Performance, Ethics, Poetics

$95.00
Format: Hardcover
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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 Sultan S?eyman 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.

Author: Michael Meere
ISBN-10: 019284413X
ISBN-13: 9780192844132
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 01/28/2022
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 9.32h x 6.51w x 0.80d

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Choice 02/01/2023
By Michael Meere
By Michael Meere
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Michael Meere, Associate Professor of French and Medieval Studies, Wesleyan University

Michael Meere is Associate Professor of French and Medieval Studies at Wesleyan University. He is a scholar of early francophone literatures and cultures with a focus on theater and performance, forms and representations of violence, travel narratives and cross-cultural interactions, and gender, queer, Indigenous, and disability studies. He has also written on contemporary theater, notably the work of Mohamed Kacimi. He is the editor of French Renaissance and Baroque Drama: Text, Performance, Theory (2015), guest co-editor with Val駻ie M. Dionne of a special issue of Early Modern French Studies on "Staging Violence in Early Modern France" (2020), and co-editor with Kelly Fender McConnell of Coups de ma羡re. Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Literature and Culture, in honour of John D. Lyons (2021).

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