The Style of the State in French Theater, 1630-1660 - Neoclassicism and Government (Hardcover, New edition)

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 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.

General

Imprint:	Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2009
First published:	2009
Authors:	Katherine Ibbett
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	184
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-7546-6566-3
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > General Books > Language & Literature > Language teaching & learning (other than ELT) > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
LSN:	0-7546-6566-6
Barcode:	9780754665663

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