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Onstage Violence in Sixteenth-Century French Tragedy: Performance, Ethics, Poetics
Michael Meere
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Oxford University Press, USA
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Onstage Violence in Sixteenth-Century French Tragedy: Performance, Ethics, Poetics - Meere, Michael
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Synopsis "Onstage Violence in Sixteenth-Century French Tragedy: Performance, Ethics, Poetics"
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 wereexperimenting 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 playsand 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 usesof violence on stage shed light on a range of pressing issues during that turbulent time, such as religion, gender, politics, and militantism.
