Onstage Violence In Sixteenth Century French Tragedy

Author : Michael Meere
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192658029

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Onstage Violence in Sixteenth-Century French Tragedy by Michael Meere Pdf

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 tragedy and the complex relationships between violence, performance, ethics, and poetics. The volume focuses on specific plays and 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 uses of violence on stage shed light on a range of pressing issues during that turbulent time, such as religion, gender, politics, and militantism.

Author : Michael Meere
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780192844132

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Onstage Violence in Sixteenth-Century French Tragedy by Michael Meere Pdf

Studies the representation of violence in tragedies written for the French stage during the sixteenth century, and explores its connection with issues such as politics, religion, gender, and militantism to place the plays within their historical, cultural, and theatrical contexts.

Author : Geoffrey Brereton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000579017

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French Tragic Drama in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by Geoffrey Brereton Pdf

Originally published in 1973, the history of French tragedy and tragicomedy from their origins in the sixteenth century to the last years of Louis XIV’s reign is here surveyed in a single volume. Beginning with a brief account of the development of drama from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, Dr Brereton examines the plays as types of drama, the circumstances in which they were produced and their reception by contemporaries. The traditionally great figures of Corneille and Racine are treated at some length, but their work is seen in perspective against the plays of their predecessors and of their own time. Garnier and Montchrestien are discussed, among others, as notable writers of Renaissance humanist tragedy. Sections are devoted to secondary but still important dramatists such as Mairet, Rotrou, Du Ryer, Tristan L’Hermite, Thomas Corneille and Quinault. A long chapter on Alexandre Hardy reviews the work of this neglected author and stresses his interest as a transitional link between the two centuries and as a vigorous pioneer of a type of drama which flourished for several decades after him concurrently with French ‘classical’ tragedy. The main currents of critical theory, social attitudes and stage history are described in their relation to the development of the drama. Well over a hundred plays are discussed or summarized; and the author has constantly referred back to the original material and has avoided an over-simplification of a vast subject which contains more exceptions and anomalies than has generally been recognized in the past. Chronological tables of the works of major dramatists, summaries of numerous plays and a bibliography containing modern editions of plays are included.

Author : Gillian Jondorf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1990-10-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521360145

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French Renaissance Tragedy by Gillian Jondorf Pdf

Gillian Jondorf challenges the traditional critical approaches to French Renaissance theater, reevaluating its literary merit and originality. She shows how playwrights of the sixteenth century actually achieved an originality by introducing classical themes, breaking with the medieval tradition of religious and morality plays. Whereas many critics have considered writers of French Renaissance drama as mere forerunners of the more famous seventeenth-century writers such as Molière or Racine, Jondorf argues that these plays should be seen as competent and skillfully-composed in their own right. This book will appeal to students of Renaissance literature and European drama, as well as those interested in questions of originality and literary influence.

Author : Andrew Hiscock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108830188

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Shakespeare, Violence and Early Modern Europe by Andrew Hiscock Pdf

Andrew Hiscock locates Shakespeare's history plays within debates over the status and function of violence in a nation's culture.

Author : Desmond Hosford,Charles Wrightington
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443814928

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Fortune and Fatality by Desmond Hosford,Charles Wrightington Pdf

As an aesthetic notion and dramatic genre, tragedy has enjoyed a privileged place in French culture, particularly during the early modern period when debates over its nature and philosophy reflected fascination with a style whose fundamental principles were drawn from ancient Greek sources. Through the works of Pierre Corneille and Jean Racine, routinely cited for an alleged regularity of form and content exemplifying the academic notion of French Classicism, tragedy has grounded the French literary canon. Because of its place at the heart of canonical French literary studies, tragedy’s traditionally prescribed boundaries and interpretations have rarely been questioned. Fortune and Fatality: Performing the Tragic in Early Modern France challenges conventional notions of the nature and function of tragedy and the ends to which philosophical, theatrical, and performative aspects of the tragic were appropriated during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The scope of material explored in this volume will be of interest not only to scholars and students of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature, but to those working in areas such as theater, gender studies, aesthetics, history, religion, philosophy, classics, and cultural studies.

Author : C.J. Gossip
Publisher : Springer
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1981-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349045181

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Introduction to French Classical Tragedy by C.J. Gossip Pdf

Author : Juliette Cherbuliez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0823287815

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In the Wake of Medea by Juliette Cherbuliez Pdf

Through the figure of Medea, shows how important violence was for seventeenth-century French tragedy and contextualizes that violence in a longer literary and philosophical history from Ovid to Pasolini.

Author : Donald Stone
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : France
ISBN : 0719005671

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French Humanist Tragedy by Donald Stone Pdf

In this, the first study of its kind to appear in English, the author - a professor of Romance Languages at Harvard University - discusses the concepts which determined the nature and function of French humanist tragedy and the importance of those concepts with regard to the genre's relationship to medieval, ancient and French classical drama. The emphasis on conceptual rather than formal considerations reveals strong ties between tragedy and other sixteenth century genres, now largely neglected. The book also shows that the formal changes in tragedy introduced by the humanists are less consequential than once thought, and in his last chapter suggests that a deeper appreciation of the character of French humanist tragedy can shed new light on the coming of classicism.

Author : George Bernard Daniel
Publisher : Unc Department of Romance Studies
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015014980182

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The Development of the Tragédie Nationale in France from 1552-1800 by George Bernard Daniel Pdf

This study treats the evolution of that branch of serious French drama whose themes were taken from the national history. The study also concerns dramatic groups, the staging of plays, and audiences.

Author : Antoine de Montchrestien
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474247474

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Two Tragedies by Antoine de Montchrestien Pdf

Antoine de Montchrestien's tragedies have been the object of increased critical attention over the years. This annotated edition makes two of his most interesting plays available – Hector, often recognised as one of the masterpieces of French regular rhetorical tragedy, and La Reine d'Escosse, a showcase of Montchrestien's concept of tragedy.

Author : S. Simkin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230597112

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Early Modern Tragedy and the Cinema of Violence by S. Simkin Pdf

This study considers parallel issues in revenge tragedies of the early seventeenth-century and violent cinema of the last thirty years. It offers a series of provocative explorations of death, revenge and justice, and gender and violence. What happens when we connect The White Devil with Basic Instinct ? The Changeling or Titus Andronicus with Straw Dogs ? Doctor Faustus with Se7en ? Taxi Driver with The Spanish Tragedy ? Appealing to those with an interest in either drama or film, written in an engaging style, the book also reconsiders the high /popular culture divide, and reflects on the enduring significance of the revenge motif in Western culture over the past four hundred years, particularly in the post 9/11 context.

Author : Andrew M. Kirk
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : English drama
ISBN : 0815320914

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The Mirror of Confusion by Andrew M. Kirk Pdf

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0866986448

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The Tragedy of the Sack of Cabrières by Anonim Pdf

A critical edition and the first English translation of the French play. April 1542 saw a massacre of epic proportions in the Luberon, in southeastern France, of its Waldensian population, who had been peacefully living there after they settled in a few centuries before. This massacre foreshadowed the wars of religion, which tore apart the kingdom for almost forty years. The Tragédie du Sac de Cabrières is the only play devoted to these events. This is a critical edition and English translation of the French play. Three critical editions of the play have been published in 1927, 1928, and 1998, and this new edition complements the previous works. This is the first English translation of the play and makes it available to an international audience of scholars and students of the early modern period. This edition "translates" the moment of the play's creation, the representation of the event, and its importance in the narrative of religious persecutions in sixteenth-century France. It explains how history is dramatized through the creation of the scenic story and scenic play of Cabrières. and how the specific retelling of the events of Cabrières makes this a tool of historical narration, thus allowing the audience to participate in the unfolding of history before their eyes. Therefore, they become part of history, because it is played before their eyes so that they can not only witness it but also propagate the glory of the martyrs for future generations. This is not only a translation and a work of literary scholarship, it is an analysis of the literary, political, and religious production of this period, and a multidisciplinary analysis of Waldensianism in southeastern France.

Author : Hélène E. Bilis
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781487500269

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Passing Judgment by Hélène E. Bilis Pdf

In Passing Judgment, Helene Bilis examines how an overlooked character-type--the royal judge--remained a constant of the tragic genre throughout the 17th century.