French Renaissance and Baroque Drama : Text, Performance, Theory.
Meere, Michael.
French Renaissance and Baroque Drama : Text, Performance, Theory. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (369 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Notes on Sources and Translations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. Mystery Plays Reloaded: Performing Demonic Possession in the Histoires véritables -- CHAPTER TWO. Abraham sacrifiant and the End of Ethics -- CHAPTER THREE. Farce, Community, and the Performativity of Violence in Rabelais's Quart Livre: The Chiquanous Episode -- CHAPTER FOUR. Calvinist "Comedie" and Conversion during the French Reformation: La comedie du Pape malade (1561) and La comedie du Monde malade et mal pensé (1568) -- CHAPTER FIVE. French Humanist Comedy in Search of an Audience: The Case of Jean de la Taille -- CHAPTER SIX. Rethinking the Politics of Court Spectacle: Performance and Diplomacy under the Valois -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Our Future Barbarism: Sacrifice, the Body, and Performance in Robert Garnier's Greek Tragedies -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Courtroom Drama during the Wars of Religion: Robert Garnier and the Paris Parlement -- CHAPTER NINE. From the Politics of Performance to the Anthropology of Festivals: Montaigne's "Of the Education of Children" (I.26) and "Of Coaches" (III.6) -- CHAPTER TEN. Too Late? The Drama of the Cannibals in Rouen -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Red and Black, Pink and Green: Jacques de Fonteny's Gay Pastoral Play -- CHAPTER TWELVE. Stage Designs of Cruelty: Theater in Rouen at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN. The Court Turned Inside Out: The Collapse of Dignity in Louis XIII's Burlesque Ballets -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN. Poison in French Tragedy and Tragic Stories, 1600-1636 -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN. Et in Arcadia alter egos: Playing Politics with Pastoral in Two French Baroque Dramas -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Contributors.
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.
9781611495492
French drama--17th century--History and criticism.
Baroque literature--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PQ528.F74 2015
842/.409
French Renaissance and Baroque Drama : Text, Performance, Theory. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (369 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Notes on Sources and Translations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. Mystery Plays Reloaded: Performing Demonic Possession in the Histoires véritables -- CHAPTER TWO. Abraham sacrifiant and the End of Ethics -- CHAPTER THREE. Farce, Community, and the Performativity of Violence in Rabelais's Quart Livre: The Chiquanous Episode -- CHAPTER FOUR. Calvinist "Comedie" and Conversion during the French Reformation: La comedie du Pape malade (1561) and La comedie du Monde malade et mal pensé (1568) -- CHAPTER FIVE. French Humanist Comedy in Search of an Audience: The Case of Jean de la Taille -- CHAPTER SIX. Rethinking the Politics of Court Spectacle: Performance and Diplomacy under the Valois -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Our Future Barbarism: Sacrifice, the Body, and Performance in Robert Garnier's Greek Tragedies -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Courtroom Drama during the Wars of Religion: Robert Garnier and the Paris Parlement -- CHAPTER NINE. From the Politics of Performance to the Anthropology of Festivals: Montaigne's "Of the Education of Children" (I.26) and "Of Coaches" (III.6) -- CHAPTER TEN. Too Late? The Drama of the Cannibals in Rouen -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Red and Black, Pink and Green: Jacques de Fonteny's Gay Pastoral Play -- CHAPTER TWELVE. Stage Designs of Cruelty: Theater in Rouen at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN. The Court Turned Inside Out: The Collapse of Dignity in Louis XIII's Burlesque Ballets -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN. Poison in French Tragedy and Tragic Stories, 1600-1636 -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN. Et in Arcadia alter egos: Playing Politics with Pastoral in Two French Baroque Dramas -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Contributors.
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.
9781611495492
French drama--17th century--History and criticism.
Baroque literature--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PQ528.F74 2015
842/.409