French Renaissance and Baroque Drama

Michael Meere is visiting assistant professor of French at Wesleyan University.

Illustrations
Notes on Sources and Translations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Mystery Plays Reloaded: Performing Demonic Possession in the Histoires véritables
Andreea Marculescu
Chapter 2: Abraham sacrifiant and the End of Ethics
John D. Lyons
Chapter 3: Farce, Community, and the Performativity of Violence in Rabelais’s Quart Livre: The Chiquanous Episode
Caroline Gates and Michael Meere
Chapter 4: Calvinist “Comedie” and Conversion during the French Reformation: La comedie du pape malade (1561) and La comedie du monde malade et mal pensé (1568)
Sara Beam
Chapter 5: French Humanist Comedy in Search of an Audience: The Case of Jean de la Taille
Corinne Noirot
Chapter 6: Rethinking the Politics of Court Spectacle: Performance and Diplomacy under the Valois
Ellen R. Welch
Chapter 7: Our Future Barbarism: Sacrifice, the Body, and Performance in Robert Garnier’s Greek Tragedies
Antónia Szabari
Chapter 8: Courtroom Drama during the Wars of Religion: Robert Garnier and the Paris Parlement
Phillip John Usher
Chapter 9: From the Politics of Performance to the Anthropology of Festivals: Montaigne’s “Of the Education of Children” (I.26) and “Of Coaches” (III.6)
Fabien Cavaillé
Chapter 10: Too Late? The Drama of the Cannibals in Rouen
Elizabeth Guild
Chapter 11: Red and Black, Pink and Green: Jacques de Fonteny’s Gay Pastoral Play
Christian Biet
Chapter 12: Stage Designs of Cruelty: Theater in Rouen at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century
Sybile Chevallier-Micki
Chapter 13: The Court Turned Inside Out: The Collapse of Dignity in Louis XIII’s Burlesque Ballets
Alison Calhoun
Chapter 14: Poison in French Tragedy and Tragic Stories, 1600-1636
Stephanie O’Hara
Chapter 15: Et in Arcadia alter egos: Playing Politics with Pastoral in Two French Baroque Dramas
Richard Hillman
Bibliography
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