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.
| ISBN: | 9780820470603 |
| Publication date: | 1st November 2004 |
| Author: | Kimberly Cashman |
| Publisher: | P. Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc. |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 150 pages |
| Series: | Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures |
| Genres: |
Theatre: technical and background skills Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 |
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.
Staging Subversions features in the following genres: Theatre: technical and background skills, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
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Staging Subversions was written by Kimberly Cashman and published by P. Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc.
Staging Subversions has 150 pages
Yes it is part of Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures series