1st Edition

Ineffable Bodies Heroism on the Early Modern Stage

By Christine Sukic Copyright 2025
158 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

Ineffable Bodies focuses on early modern heroism in drama through the notion of ineffability in order to define new dramatic forms. Drawing from Vladimir Jankélévitch’s studies on the ineffable, the book focuses on heroic bodies on the early modern stage as the seat of an aesthetic shift in drama: the early modern heroic body testifies to an inability to tell heroic stories. Examples are taken... Read more

Introduction 

Chapter 1: Disintegrations

Chapter 2: Challenging Nobility 

Chapter 3: Decomposition 

Chapter 4 : Controlling Heroic Bodies 

Chapter 5 : The Impossible Heroic Narrative

Biography

Christine Sukic is professor of early modern English literature and culture at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France, and is the current president of the French Shakespeare Society (Société Française Shakespeare). She has published studies on Shakespeare, George Chapman, Christopher Marlowe and Samuel Daniel and has edited or co-edited eight collections on the heroic body and representations of the immaterial. She is the author of a monograph on George Chapman’s tragedies and has translated and edited Chapman’s Bussy D’Ambois into French for the Pléiade series (2009). She has co-translated and co-edited Marlowe’s Massacre at Paris with A.-M. Miller-Blaise, to be published by Classiques Garnier in 2025.