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

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The performance of violence on the stage has played an integral role in French tragedy since its inception. Onstage Violence in Sixteenth-Century French Tragedy is the first book to tell this story. It traces and examines the ethical and poetic stakes of violence, as playwrights were experimenting with the newly discovered genre during decades of religious and civil war (c. 1550-1598). The study begins with an overview of the origins of French vernacular tragedy and the complex relationships between violence, performance, ethics, and poetics. The volume focuses on specific plays and analyzes biblical, mythological, historical, and politically topical tragedies--including the stories of Cain and Abel, David and Goliath, Medea, the Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent, the Roman general Regulus, and the assassination of the Duke of Guise in 1588--to show how the multifarious uses of violence on stage shed light on a range of pressing issues during that turbulent time, such as religion, gender, politics, and militantism.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
250
ISBN-13:
9780192844132
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
019284413X
Udg. Dato:
28 okt 2021
Længde:
20mm
Bredde:
170mm
Højde:
240mm
Forlag:
Oxford University Press
Oplagsdato:
28 okt 2021
Forfatter(e):
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