French Renaissance and baroque drama : text, performance, and theory / edited by Michael Meere.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Meere, Michael, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French drama--17th century--History and criticism.

French drama.

Baroque literature--History and criticism.

Baroque literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxxi, 336 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : University Of Delaware Press, [2015]

Summary:

This volume highlights 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 discussing topics 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 chapters 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, speaks to the various types of drama and the numerous ways we can study them. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Mystery Plays Reloaded: Performing Demonic Possession in the Histoires véritables / Andreea Marculescu Marculescu, Andreea 1

Chapter 2 Abraham sacrifiant and the End of Ethics / John D. Lyons Lyons, John D. 21

Chapter 3 Farce, Community, and the Performativity of Violence in Rabelais's Quart Livre: The Chiquanous Episode / Caroline Gates Gates, Caroline, Michael Meere Meere, Michael 39

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 Beam, Sara 63

Chapter 5 French Humanist Comedy in Search of an Audience: The Case of jean de la Taille / Corinne Noirot Noirot, Corinne 83

Chapter 6 Rethinking the Politics of Court Spectacle: Performance and Diplomacy under the Valois / Ellen R. Welch Welch, Ellen R. 101

Chapter 7 Our Future Barbarism: Sacrifice, the Body, and Performance in Robert Gamier's Greek Tragedies / António Szaban Szaban, António 117

Chapter 8 Courtroom Drama during the Wars of Religion: Robert Gamier and the Paris Parlement / Phillip John Usher Usher, Phillip John 139

Chapter 9 From the Politics of Performance to the Anthropology of Festivals: Montaigne's "Of the Education of Children" (1.26) and "Of Coaches" (III.6) / Fabien Cavaillé Cavaillé, Fabien 153

Chapter 10 Too Late? The Drama of the Cannibals in Rouen / Elizabeth Guild Guild, Elizabeth 167

Chapter 11 Red and Black, Pink and Green: Jacques de Fonteny's Gay Pastoral Play / Christian Biet Biet, Christian 187

Chapter 12 Stage Designs of Cruelty: Theater in Rouen at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century / Sybile Chevallier-Micki Chevallier-Micki, Sybile 213

Chapter 13 The Court Turned Inside Out: The Collapse of Dignity in Louis XIII's Burlesque Ballets / Alison Calhoun Calhoun, Alison 233

Chapter 14 Poison in French Tragedy and Tragic Stories, 1600-1636 / Stephanie O'Hara O'Hara, Stephanie 247

Chapter 15 Et in Arcadia alter egos: Playing Politics with Pastoral in Two French Baroque Dramas / Richard Hillman Hillman, Richard 267.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1611495482

9781611495485

OCLC:

894625718

Publisher Number:

99962724349