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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.
Contents
Introduction: (Re)Centering Violence in Sixteenth-Century French Tragedy
1: Performance, Ethics, and Poetics of Violence: An 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 Remarks: Onstage Violence at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century
