French Renaissance and Baroque Drama: Text, Performance, Theory

by Michael Meere (Editor), Sara Beam (Contribution by), Christian Biet (Contribution by), Alison Calhoun (Contribution by), Fabien Cavaillé (Contribution by)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781611495485
Publisher:	University of Delaware Press
Publication date:	02/26/2015
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

Illustrations Notes on Sources and Translations Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Mystery Plays Reloaded: Performing Demonic Possession in the Histoires véritables Andreea Marculescu Chapter 2: Abraham sacrifiant and the End of Ethics John D. Lyons Chapter 3: Farce, Community, and the Performativity of Violence in Rabelais’s Quart Livre: The Chiquanous Episode Caroline Gates and Michael Meere 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 Chapter 5: French Humanist Comedy in Search of an Audience: The Case of Jean de la Taille Corinne Noirot Chapter 6: Rethinking the Politics of Court Spectacle: Performance and Diplomacy under the Valois Ellen R. Welch Chapter 7: Our Future Barbarism: Sacrifice, the Body, and Performance in Robert Garnier’s Greek Tragedies Antónia Szabari Chapter 8: Courtroom Drama during the Wars of Religion: Robert Garnier and the Paris Parlement Phillip John Usher Chapter 9: From the Politics of Performance to the Anthropology of Festivals: Montaigne’s “Of the Education of Children” (I.26) and “Of Coaches” (III.6) Fabien Cavaillé Chapter 10: Too Late? The Drama of the Cannibals in Rouen Elizabeth Guild Chapter 11: Red and Black, Pink and Green: Jacques de Fonteny’s Gay Pastoral Play Christian Biet Chapter 12: Stage Designs of Cruelty: Theater in Rouen at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century Sybile Chevallier-Micki Chapter 13: The Court Turned Inside Out: The Collapse of Dignity in Louis XIII’s Burlesque Ballets Alison Calhoun Chapter 14: Poison in French Tragedy and Tragic Stories, 1600-1636 Stephanie O’Hara Chapter 15: Et in Arcadia alter egos: Playing Politics with Pastoral in Two French Baroque Dramas Richard Hillman Bibliography About the Contributors