{"product_id":"onstage-violence-in-sixteenth-century-french-michael-meere-9780192844132","title":"Onstage Violence in Sixteenth-Century French Tragedy: Performance, Ethics, Poetics","description":"The performance of violence on the stage has played an integral role in French tragedy since its inception. \u003cem\u003eOnstage Violence in Sixteenth-Century French Tragedy\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Meere\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 019284413X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780192844132\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/28\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.32h x 6.51w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2023","brand":"Michael Meere","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43944881848575,"sku":"9780192844132","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_5cde02ff-cd2a-488a-8cfe-e47d21e919ca.jpg?v=1681505543","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/onstage-violence-in-sixteenth-century-french-michael-meere-9780192844132","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}