Book section icon

Book section : Chapter

Killing Coligny: staging the Admiral’s death in sixteenth-century France and England

Abstract:

An act of killing on a theatrical stage represents death as a sensational finality — perhaps all the more so when it is based on historical events still live in the memory of the play’s first audiences. So what happens when that finality is undone, when the brutal act of killing is reduced to the barest of allusions? And what will be gained by reinstating the death onstage with quirky violence in a subsequent play? These questions underpin my enquiry which focuses on the repeated spectacle of...

Expand abstract
Publication status:
Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

Actions


Access Document


Files:
Publisher copy:
10.2307/j.ctv33b9p7v.6

Authors


More by this author
Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Medieval & Modern Languages Faculty
Sub department:
French
Oxford college:
St Edmund Hall
Role:
Author
ORCID:
0000-0002-2875-6868

Contributors

Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Medieval & Modern Languages Faculty
Sub department:
French
Oxford college:
St Catherine's College
Role:
Editor
Publisher:
Legenda
Host title:
Last Scene of All: Representing Death on the Western Stage
Series:
Legenda (General Series)
Chapter number:
1
Pages:
11-26
Place of publication:
Oxford
Publication date:
2022-09-13
DOI:
EISBN:
9781781887202
ISBN:
9781781886861
Language:
English
Keywords:
Subtype:
Chapter
Pubs id:
2009936
Local pid:
pubs:2009936
Deposit date:
2024-06-25

Terms of use


Views and Downloads






If you are the owner of this record, you can report an update to it here: Report update to this record

TO TOP