Killing Coligny: staging the Admiral’s death in sixteenth-century France and England
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 ba...
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2022
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| Summary: | 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 killing an important military leader, in sixteenth-century tragedy and beyond... |
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