Style of the State in French Theater, 1630–1660
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Florimond De Raemond
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Frank Lestringant
French Literary Fascism
French neoclassical theatre politics
gender and power
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Georges Couton
Georges De La Tour
Georges Forestier
Guez De Balzac
Hendrick Terbrugghen
Hendrik Ter Brugghen
Histoire De La Nouvelle France
Il Pastor Fido
Italian influence theatre
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Jean Mesnard
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Kaspar Von Greyerz
La France Italienne
La Tour
Marc Fumaroli
Martyr Drama
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performance theory
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Presses Universitaires De France
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Revue Des Sciences Humaines
seventeenth-century drama
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- ISBN 9781138376281
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 03 Jan 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Engaging with recent thinking about performance, political theory and canon formation, this study addresses the significance of the formal changes in seventeenth-century French theater. Each chapter takes up a particularity of seventeenth-century theatrical style and staging”for example, the clearing of violence from the stage”and shows how the conceptualization of these French stylistic shifts appropriates a rich body of Italian political writing on questions of action, temporality, and law. The theater's appropriation of political concerns and vocabularies, the author argues, proffers an astute reflection on the practices of government that draws attention to questions obscured in reason of state, such as the instrumentalization of women's bodies. In a new reading of tragedies about government, the author shows how the canonical figure of Pierre Corneille is formally engaged with the political strategizing he often appears to repudiate, and in so doing challenges a literary history that has read neoclassicism largely as a display of pure French style.
Katherine Ibbett, Lecturer, University College London, UK
