Title Onstage violence in sixteenth-century French tragedy : performance, ethics, poetics / Michael Meere

Edition First edition Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021 ©2021

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 233 pages) : illustrations Contents A Note on Editions and Translations -- Introduction(Re)Centering Violence in Sixteenth-Century French Tragedy -- 1. Performance, Ethics, and Poetics of ViolenceAn Overview -- 2. Biblical Violence in Catholic and Calvinist Tragedy -- 3. Women Who Kill -- 4. State-Inflicted Violence and the Ethics of Suffering -- 5. The Duke of Guise's Murder and the Imperative of Vengeance -- Concluding RemarksOnstage Violence at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century -- Bibliography -- Index Summary 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 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). 0The 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 Suleyman 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 22, 2022) Subject French drama (Tragedy) -- 16th century -- History and criticism Violence in literature. Violence in the theater. French drama -- 16th century -- History and criticism French drama (Tragedy) French drama Violence in literature Violence in the theater Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191926877 0191926876 9780192658029 0192658026

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