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French Renaissance and Baroque Drama : Text, Performance, Theory.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : University of Delaware Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (369 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781611495492
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: French Renaissance and Baroque DramaDDC classification:
  • 842/.409
LOC classification:
  • PQ528.F74 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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