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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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Notes on Sources and Translations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Mystery Plays Reloaded: Performing Demonic Possession in the Histoires véritables
Andreea Marculescu
Chapter 2: Abraham sacrifiant and the End of Ethics
John D. Lyons
Chapter 3: Farce, Community, and the Performativity of Violence in Rabelais's Quart Livre: The Chiquanous Episode
Caroline Gates and Michael Meere
Chapter 4: Calvinist "Comedie" and Conversion during the French Reformation: La comedie du pape malade (1561) and La comedie du monde malade et mal pensé (1568)
Sara Beam
Chapter 5: French Humanist Comedy in Search of an Audience: The Case of Jean de la Taille
Corinne Noirot
Chapter 6: Rethinking the Politics of Court Spectacle: Performance and Diplomacy under the Valois
Ellen R. Welch
Chapter 7: Our Future Barbarism: Sacrifice, the Body, and Performance in Robert Garnier's Greek Tragedies
Antónia Szabari
Chapter 8: Courtroom Drama during the Wars of Religion: Robert Garnier and the Paris Parlement
Phillip John Usher
Chapter 9: From the Politics of Performance to the Anthropology of Festivals: Montaigne's "Of the Education of Children" (I.26) and "Of Coaches" (III.6)
Fabien Cavaillé
Chapter 10: Too Late? The Drama of the Cannibals in Rouen
Elizabeth Guild
Chapter 11: Red and Black, Pink and Green: Jacques de Fonteny's Gay Pastoral Play
Christian Biet
Chapter 12: Stage Designs of Cruelty: Theater in Rouen at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century
Sybile Chevallier-Micki
Chapter 13: The Court Turned Inside Out: The Collapse of Dignity in Louis XIII's Burlesque Ballets
Alison Calhoun
Chapter 14: Poison in French Tragedy and Tragic Stories, 1600-1636
Stephanie O'Hara
Chapter 15: Et in Arcadia alter egos: Playing Politics with Pastoral in Two French Baroque Dramas
Richard Hillman
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Edited by Michael Meere - Contributions by Sara Beam; Christian Biet; Alison Calhoun; Fabien Cavaillé; Sybile Chevallier-Micki; Caroline Gates; Elizabeth Guild; Richard Hillman; John D. Lyons; Andreea Marculescu; Corinne Noirot; Stephanie O'Hara; Antónia
