How Long to Read The Theatre of Martyrdom

How Long Does it Take to Read The Theatre of Martyrdom?

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Description

"This study examines the genre of tragedy through the lens of one of its most curious manifestations: the martyr play. The equation of Christianity with tragedy has often been seen by literary and theological scholars as specious at best, sacrilegious at worst. During the mid-seventeenth century, however, a group of French playwrights saw fit to produce tragedies that drew not on Roman or Greek mythology, as was the norm, but on stories of Christian heroism. The author examines a broad corpus of plays ranging from the famous works of Pierre Corneille to near-forgotten examples of female-authored tragedy. By setting the martyr plays in direct juxtaposition with contemporary Church practice and thought, the author unearths a network of interconnections that challenge the oft-cited secularization of the stage in seventeenth-century France. Drawing on the writings of Michel Foucault as well as a host of contemporary and modern-day theologians, the author shows the martyr to be a major figure in theatrical performance and religious thought alike, exposing the porosity of the boundary separating the spaces of theatrical performance and church worship. The martyr plays, whether they threaten to destabilize the genre or define it, are ultimately shown to be integral to our understanding of what constituted tragedy in early modern France"--

How long is The Theatre of Martyrdom?

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