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Staging subversions : the performance-within-a-play in French classical theater / Kimberly Cashman. [electronic resource]
International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance Available from 2005 until 2005. Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cashman, Kimberly, 1969-
- Series:
- Currents in comparative Romance languages and literatures ; v. 134.
- Currents in comparative Romance languages and literatures, 0893-5963 ; vol. 134
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- French drama--17th century--History and criticism.
- French drama.
- Play within a play.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (150 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- New York : P. Lang, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Staging Subversions: The Performance-within-a-Play in French Classical Theater defines a new type of metadrama using Le Tartuffe as its paradigm and explores the complex, ambiguous, and enlightening relationships that metadrama maintains with the social and political orders. While metadramatic scenes are most often concerned with theater itself, the performance-within-a-play adopts an important function in the play's plot, and consequently, in the social world of the play.
- The performance-within-a-play is particularly associated by the classical playwrights with the family structure, with the class system, with women's social roles, and with the politics of absolutism."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- Le Tartuffe IV, 5: A Paradigmatic Performance-within-a-Play
- IV,4: The Preparatory Scene
- IV,5: The Performance
- Performance-within-a-play, Play-within-a-Play, and Role-Play
- The Performance-within-a-play and the Social Order
- Le Tartuffe
- Le Malade imaginaire
- Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
- The Performance-within-a-Play and Gender Issues
- L'Ecole des femmes
- George Dandin
- Performance and the Politics of Absolutism
- Le Cid
- Horace
- Britannicus.
- Notes:
- Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 2002) presented under the title: The social order, politics, and gender.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-150).
- ISBN:
- 0-8204-7060-0
- OCLC:
- 9547426
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