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The personal rule of Louis XIV, following on from a long period of
royal minority and apprenticeship, lasted 54 years from 1661 to
1715. But the second half of this personal rule has, until
recently, received significantly less scholarly attention than the
1660s and 1670s. This has obscured some of the very real changes
and developments that occurred between the early 1680s and the
mid-1690s, by which time a new generation of younger royals had
come to prominence, France was engulfed in international war on a
greater scale than ever before, and the king was visibly no longer
as vigorous or healthy as he had once been. The essays in this
volume take a close look at the way a new set of political, social,
cultural and economic dispensations emerged from the mid-1680s to
create a different France in the final decades of Louis XIV's
reign, even though the basic ideological, social and economic
underpinnings of the country remained very largely the same. The
contributions examine such varied matters as the structure and
practices of government, naval power, the financial operations of
the state, trade and commerce, social pressures, overseas
expansion, religious dissent, music, literature and the fine arts.
The French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) was home to one of
the richest public theatre traditions of the colonial-era
Caribbean. This book examines the relationship between
public theatre and the enslaved people of
Saint-Domingue—something that is generally given short shrift
owing to a perceived lack of documentation. Here, a range of
materials and methodologies are used to explore pressing questions
including the ‘mitigated spectatorship’ of the enslaved,
portrayals of enslaved people in French and Creole repertoire, the
contributions of enslaved people to theatre-making, and shifting
attitudes during the revolutionary era. The book
demonstrates that slavery was no mere backdrop to this portion of
theatre history but an integral part of its story. It also
helps recover the hidden experiences of some of the enslaved
individuals who became entangled in that story.
The personal rule of Louis XIV, following on from a long period of
royal minority and apprenticeship, lasted 54 years from 1661 to
1715. But the second half of this personal rule has, until
recently, received significantly less scholarly attention than the
1660s and 1670s. This has obscured some of the very real changes
and developments that occurred between the early 1680s and the
mid-1690s, by which time a new generation of younger royals had
come to prominence, France was engulfed in international war on a
greater scale than ever before, and the king was visibly no longer
as vigorous or healthy as he had once been. The essays in this
volume take a close look at the way a new set of political, social,
cultural and economic dispensations emerged from the mid-1680s to
create a different France in the final decades of Louis XIV's
reign, even though the basic ideological, social and economic
underpinnings of the country remained very largely the same. The
contributions examine such varied matters as the structure and
practices of government, naval power, the financial operations of
the state, trade and commerce, social pressures, overseas
expansion, religious dissent, music, literature and the fine arts.
Cutting across academic boundaries, this volume brings together
scholars from different disciplines who have explored together the
richness and complexity of colonial-era Caribbean theatre. The
volume offers a series of original essays that showcase individual
expertise in light of broader group discussions. Asking how we can
research effectively and write responsibly about colonial-era
Caribbean theatre today, our primary concern is methodology. Key
questions are examined via new research into individual case
studies on topics ranging from Cuban blackface, commedia
dell’arte in Suriname and Jamaican oratorio to travelling
performers and the influence of the military and of enslaved people
on theatre in Saint-Domingue. Specifically, we ask what particular
methodological challenges we as scholars of colonial-era Caribbean
theatre face and what methodological solutions we can find to meet
those challenges. Areas addressed include our linguistic
limitations in the face of Caribbean multilingualism; issues raised
by national, geographical or imperial approaches to the field; the
vexed relationship between metropole and colony; and, crucially,
gaps in the archive. We also ask what implications our findings
have for theatre performance today – a question that has led to
the creation of a new work set in a colonial theatre and outlined
in the volume’s concluding chapter.
French poet and critic Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux (1636-1711) was by
turns venerated (in the eighteenth century) and reviled (in the
nineteenth century) as the lawgiver of French classicism. Today
critics see his achievement as more varied and complex than the
label of classicism generally allows. This selection of Boileau's
poems, translated with spirit and carefully annotated by Burton
Raffel, brings the work of Boileau to English-speaking readers for
the first time in a generation. Much admired for his wit and
ingenuity, Boileau perceived the role of the satirist as the
scourge of bad writing and delighted in the notion of "l'ami du
vrai," the brash truth-teller and enemy of humbug, inflation, and
equivocation. Raffel's translations, vigorous and engaging,
preserve the meaning of Boileau's poems and invite today's reader
to enjoy the poet's astute perceptions. Julia Prest's insightful
introduction to the volume provides an overview of Boileau's life
and achievement.
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