{"product_id":"teaching-french-neoclassical-tragedy-9781603295314","title":"Teaching French Neoclassical Tragedy","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Hélène E. Bilis | Ellen McClure\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Modern Language Association of America\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Modern Language Association of America\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Drama\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTragedy 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Modern Language Association of America","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47596227100823,"sku":"9781603295314","price":4180.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781603295314.webp?v=1774992954","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/teaching-french-neoclassical-tragedy-9781603295314","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}