1st Edition
The Style of the State in French Theater, 1630–1660 Neoclassicism and Government
By Katherine Ibbett
Copyright 2009
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
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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 staging”for example, the clearing of violence from the stage”and shows how the conceptualization of these French stylistic shifts... Read more
Contents: Introduction: curious perspectives; The politics of patience: staging the spectator; Conservation, Corneille, and the question of the colonial governor; Taking one's time, or, Cléopâtre is Corneille; The rules of art; Coda: offstage; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Katherine Ibbett, Lecturer, University College London, UK
