Onstage Violence in Sixteenth-Century French Tragedy

Michael Meere is Associate Professor of French and Medieval Studies at Wesleyan University. He is a scholar of early francophone literatures and cultures with a focus on theater and performance, forms and representations of violence, travel narratives and cross-cultural interactions, and gender, queer, Indigenous, and disability studies. He has also written on contemporary theater, notably the work of Mohamed Kacimi. He is the editor of French Renaissance and Baroque Drama: Text, Performance, Theory (2015), guest co-editor with Valérie M. Dionne of a special issue of Early Modern French Studies on "Staging Violence in Early Modern France" (2020), and co-editor with Kelly Fender McConnell ofCoups de maître. Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Literature and Culture, in honour of John D. Lyons (2021).

• Introduction: (Re)Centering Violence in Sixteenth-Century French Tragedy 1: Performance, Ethics, and Poetics of Violence: An Overview 2: Biblical Violence in Catholic and Calvinist Tragedy 3: Women Who Kill 4: State-Inflicted Violence and the Ethics of Suffering 5: The Duke of Guise's Murder and the Imperative of Vengeance Concluding Remarks: Onstage Violence at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century

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