The fifteen articles in this volume highlight the richness, diversity, and experimental nature of French and Francophone drama before the advent of what would b

Examines the evolving practices in music, librettos, choreographed dance, and staging throughout the history of French Baroque opera.

Studies the representation of violence in tragedies written for the French stage during the sixteenth century, and explores its connection with issues such as p

Obscene poetry, servants' slanders against their masters, the diabolical acts of those who committed massacre and regicide. This is a book about the harmful, ou