Onstage Violence in Sixteenth-Century French Tragedy: Performance, Ethics, Poetics

by Michael Meere

Book Overview

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 were experimenting 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019284413X
• ISBN13: 9780192844132
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.3"