| Staging Subversions: The Performance-within-a-Play in French Classical Theater Contributor(s): Alvarez-Detrell, Tamara (Other), Paulson, Michael G. (Other), Cashman, Kimberly (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820470600 ISBN-13: 9780820470603 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $83.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2004 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | European - General - Literary Criticism | European - French |
| Dewey: 842.409 |
| LCCN: 2004006661 |
| Series: Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures, |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 7" W x 10" (1.09 lbs) 150 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |