{"product_id":"teaching-french-neoclassical-tragedy-9781603295314","title":"Teaching French Neoclassical Tragedy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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 \u003ci\u003egrand siècle\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003cp\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn invaluable resource for teachers bringing French neoclassical theater to the classroom, this book contains excellent, concrete suggestions for activities that encourage student engagement and communication.\" - Roland Racevskis, University of Iowa","brand":"Modern Language Association of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51138320990551,"sku":"9781603295314","price":36.86,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781603295314.jpg?v=1751918898","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/teaching-french-neoclassical-tragedy-9781603295314","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}