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Killing Coligny: staging the Admiral’s death in sixteenth-century France and England
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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...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Preview, Accepted manuscript, pdf, 136.0KB, Terms of use)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.2307/j.ctv33b9p7v.6
Authors
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+ Goodman, J
Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Medieval & Modern Languages Faculty
Sub department:
French
Oxford college:
St Catherine's College
Role:
Editor
Bibliographic Details
- 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
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English
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- Subtype:
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Chapter
- Pubs id:
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2009936
- Local pid:
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pubs:2009936
- Deposit date:
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2024-06-25
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- Copyright date:
- 2022
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the chapter. The final version is available online from Legenda at https://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv33b9p7v.6
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