Ineffable Bodies - Heroism on the Early Modern Stage

Ineffable Bodies focuses on early modern heroism in drama through the notion of ineffability in order to define new dramatic forms. Drawing from Vladimir Jankélévitch's studies on the ineffable, the book focuses on heroic bodies on the early modern stage as the seat of an aesthetic shift in drama.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Chapter 1: Disintegrations
Chapter 2: Challenging Nobility
Chapter 3: Decomposition
Chapter 4 : Controlling Heroic Bodies
Chapter 5 : The Impossible Heroic Narrative

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Christine Sukic is professor of early modern English literature and culture at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France, and is the current president of the French Shakespeare Society (Société Française Shakespeare). She has published studies on Shakespeare, George Chapman, Christopher Marlowe and Samuel Daniel and has edited or co-edited eight collections on the heroic body and representations of the immaterial. She is the author of a monograph on George Chapman's tragedies and has translated and edited Chapman's Bussy D'Ambois into French for the Pléiade series (2009). She has co-translated and co-edited Marlowe's Massacre at Paris with A.-M. Miller-Blaise, to be published by Classiques Garnier in 2025.

Zusammenfassung

Ineffable Bodies focuses on early modern heroism in drama through the notion of ineffability in order to define new dramatic forms. Drawing from Vladimir Jankélévitch’s studies on the ineffable, the book focuses on heroic bodies on the early modern stage as the seat of an aesthetic shift in drama.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Christine Sukic
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.04.2025
• EAN: 9781032817996
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3281799-6
• Seiten: 150
• Serie: Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik > Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Theater, Ballett; Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Theatre Studies, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Shakespeare Plays, Early Modern Drama