Teaching French Neoclassical Tragedy

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  • Teaching French Neoclassical Tragedy Book Detail

  • Author : Hélène E. Bilis
  • Release Date : 2021-06-19
  • Publisher : Modern Language Association
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 428
  • ISBN 13 : 1603295321
  • File Size : 1,1 MB
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Teaching French Neoclassical Tragedy by Hélène E. Bilis PDF Summary

Book Description: Tragedy has been reborn many times since antiquity. Seventeenth-century French playwrights composed tragedies marked by neoclassical aesthetics and the divine-right absolutism of the Grand Siècle. But their works also speak to the modern imagination, inspiring reactions from Barthes, Derrida, and Foucault; adaptations and reworkings by Césaire and Kushner; and new productions by francophone and anglophone directors. This volume addresses both the history of French neoclassical tragedy--its audiences, performance practice, and development as a genre--and the ideas these works raise, such as necessity, free will, desire, power, and moral behavior in the face of limited choices. Essays demonstrate ways to teach the plays through a variety of lenses, such as performance, spectatorship, aesthetics, rhetoric, and affect. The book also explores postcolonial engagement, by writers and directors both in and outside France, with these works.

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