Playing the Martyr Theater Andcb

Playing the Martyr is the first English-language book devoted to the productive encounter between theater and religion in early modern France. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Playing the Martyr investigates how early modern playwrights and critics engaged with religion both on stage and off in order to reflect on the nature of theater.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Christian Melpomene?
Chapter 1: The Separation of Church and Stage
Chapter 2: The Spectacle of Martyrdom and the Spectacle of the Stage
Chapter 3: "Ex histrionis martyr factus:" Genesius, Acting, and Martyrdom
Chapter 4: Polyeucte, martyr and Corneille's Sacramental Poetics
Epilogue: Theater and Theology at the Threshold of Modernity
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Christopher Semk is assistant professor of French at Yale University.

Summary

Playing the Martyr is the first English-language book devoted to the productive encounter between theater and religion in early modern France. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Playing the Martyr investigates how early modern playwrights and critics engaged with religion both on stage and off in order to reflect on the nature of theater.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Semk
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2017
• EAN: 9781611488036
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-803-6
• Series: Scenes Francophones; Scenes Francophones; Scènes Francophones
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies