Onstage Violence in Sixteenth-Century French Tragedy - Performance, Ethics, Poetics

Studies the representation of violence in tragedies written for the French stage during the sixteenth century, and explores its connection with issues such as politics, religion, gender, and militantism to place the plays within their historical, cultural, and theatrical contexts.

List of contents

• Introduction: (Re)Centering Violence in Sixteenth-Century French Tragedy


• 1: Performance, Ethics, and Poetics of Violence: An Overview


• 2: Biblical Violence in Catholic and Calvinist Tragedy


• 3: Women Who Kill


• 4: State-Inflicted Violence and the Ethics of Suffering


• 5: The Duke of Guise's Murder and the Imperative of Vengeance


• Concluding Remarks: Onstage Violence at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century

About the author

Michael Meere is Associate Professor of French and Medieval Studies at Wesleyan University. He is a scholar of early francophone literatures and cultures with a focus on theater and performance, forms and representations of violence, travel narratives and cross-cultural interactions, and gender, queer, Indigenous, and disability studies. He has also written on contemporary theater, notably the work of Mohamed Kacimi. He is the editor of French Renaissance and Baroque Drama: Text, Performance, Theory (2015), guest co-editor with Valérie M. Dionne of a special issue of Early Modern French Studies on "Staging Violence in Early Modern France" (2020), and co-editor with Kelly Fender McConnell ofCoups de maître. Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Literature and Culture, in honour of John D. Lyons (2021).

Summary

Studies the representation of violence in tragedies written for the French stage during the sixteenth century, and explores its connection with issues such as politics, religion, gender, and militantism to place the plays within their historical, cultural, and theatrical contexts.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Meere, Michael (Assistant Professor of French and Meere, Michael (Assistant Professor of French and Medieval Studies Meere, Michael (Associate Professor of French and Meere, Meere Michael
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9780192844132
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284413-2
• No. of pages: 250
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, DRAMA / Shakespeare, c 1500 onwards to present day, Literary studies: general, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, History and Archaeology, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance, Literary studies: plays and playwrights