French Renaissance and Baroque Drama : Text, Performance, Theory

Michael Meere

ISBN 10: 1611495482 / ISBN 13: 9781611495485

Published by University Of Delaware Press, 2015

About this Item

nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: French Renaissance and Baroque Drama : Text, Performance, Theory
• Publisher: University Of Delaware Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1611495482
• ISBN 13: 9781611495485
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 157H x 26D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 157 millimeters height by 26 millimeters depth
• Weight: 751 grams

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Synopsis

The fifteen articles in this volume highlight the richness, diversity, and experimental nature of French and Francophone drama before the advent of what would become known as neoclassical French theater of the seventeenth century. In essays ranging from conventional stage plays (tragedies, comedies, pastoral, and mystery plays) to court ballets, royal entrances, and meta- and para-theatrical writings of the period from 1485 to 1640, French Renaissance and Baroque Drama: Text, Performance, Theory seeks to deepen and problematize our knowledge of texts, co-texts, and performances of drama from literary-historical, artistic, political, social, and religious perspectives. Moreover, many of the articles engage with contemporary theory and other disciplines to study this drama, including but not limited to psychoanalysis, gender studies, anthropology, and performance theory. The diversity of the essays in their methodologies and objects of study, none of which is privileged over any other, bespeaks the various types of drama and the numerous ways we can study them.

About the Author

Michael Meere is visiting assistant professor of French at Wesleyan University.