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The Style of the State in French Theater, 1630–1660: Neoclassicism and Government
By (author) Katherine Ibbett
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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 stagingâ€for example, the clearing of violence from the stageâ€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.
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Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published date | 22 May 2009
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 184
Dimensions | 234 x 156 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 476g
ISBN | 978-0-7546-6566-3
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BISAC | literary criticism / general
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