Staging Subversions 2005 - The Performance-within-a-play in French Classical Theater (Hardcover)

Staging Subversions: The Performance-within-a-Play in French Classical Theater defines a new type of metadrama using Le Tartuffe as its paradigm and explores the complex, ambiguous, and enlightening relationships that metadrama maintains with the social and political orders. While metadramatic scenes are most often concerned with theater itself, the performance-within-a-play adopts an important function in the play's plot, and, consequently, in the social world of the play. The performance-within-a-play is particularly associated by the classical playwrights with the family structure, with the class system, with women's social roles, and with the politics of absolutism.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Currents in Comparative Romance Languages & Literatures, 134
Release date:	November 2004
Authors:	Kimberly Cashman
Editors:	Tamara Alvarez-Detrell • Michael G. Paulson
Dimensions:	230 x 160 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	150
ISBN-13:	978-0-8204-7060-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General
LSN:	0-8204-7060-0
Barcode:	9780820470603

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