Bawdy satirical plays many starring law clerks and seminarians savaged corrupt officials and royal policies in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century France. The Church and the royal court tolerated and even commissioned such performances, the audiences for which included men and women from every social class. From the mid-sixteenth century, however, local authorities began to temper and in some cases ban such performances.
Sara Beam, in revealing how theater and politics were intimately intertwined, shows how the topics we joke about in public reflect and shape larger religious and...
Bawdy satirical plays many starring law clerks and seminarians savaged corrupt officials and royal policies in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Fra...
The fifteen articles in this volume highlight the richness, diversity, and experimental nature of French and Francophone drama before the advent of what would become known as neoclassical French theater of the seventeenth century. In essays ranging from conventional stage plays (tragedies, comedies, pastoral, and mystery plays) to court ballets, royal entrances, and meta- and para-theatrical writings of the period from 1485 to 1640, French Renaissance and Baroque Drama: Text, Performance, Theory seeks to deepen and problematize our knowledge of texts, co-texts, and performances of drama from...
The fifteen articles in this volume highlight the richness, diversity, and experimental nature of French and Francophone drama before the advent of wh...
