Teaching neoclassical trageddy outside France / Hélène E. Bilis and Ellen McClure -- Racine among the Phaedras / Larry F. Norman and David Wray -- Fate, freedom, and the tragic world / John D. Lyons -- Place and space in neoclassical tragedy / Jeffrey N. Peters -- Accounting for taste: Corneille and the power of the female spectator / Faith E. Beasley -- Tragic aesthetics: humanist uncertainty vs. neoclassical inevitability / Andrea Frisch -- The microdrama of vivid description: hypotyposis as a pedagogical tool / Juliette Cherbuliez -- Performing neoclassical tragedy: between text and image / Laurence Marie -- A comparative approach to teaching neoclassical tragedy / Blair Hoxby -- To speak or not to speak: Racine's lessons on communicative strategies / Jennifer Tamas -- Teaching la Tragédie en Musique across the curriculum / John Boitano and Louise Thomas -- Turning to seventeenth-century machine theater to teach tragedy / Hélène Visentin -- Neoclassical theater in the colonial context: the public theater of Saint-Domingue / Julia Prest -- Ancient stories, modern audiences: neoclassical tragedy in multicultural France / Ellen R. Welch -- Staging the neoclassical canon as intercultural repertoire: Faustin Linyekula's Bérénice diptych / Sylvaine Guyot -- Reflections on free will and (self-)governance in Racine and contemporary politics / Marc Bizer -- Exploring early modern globalization through seventeenth-century French tragedy / Toby Wikström -- Racine's Britannicus and the absolutist court of Louis XIV / Sylvie Romanowski -- Of tragedy and kings in Corneille and Césaire / Jeffrey M. Leichman -- A queer eye on Racine and Corneille / Jennifer Row -- An affective approach to teaching neoclassical tragedy / Anna Rosensweig -- Corneille versus the Académie Française: teaching Le Cid through courtroom drama / Theresa Varney Kennedy and David Jortner -- Neoclassical tragedy, distant reading, and the digital sphere / Hélène E. Bilis.
Summary:
"Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching French neoclassical tragedy mainly from the reign of Louis XVI in undergraduate classes. Topics include tragic themes (fate, freedom), political subtexts, postcolonial adaptations and productions, performance, rhetoric, and performance practices. Includes syllabus suggestions and information on editions, reference works, biographies, film adaptations, and online resources"-- Provided by publisher.
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