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The Massacre at Paris: By Christopher Marlowe

The Massacre at Paris: By Christopher Marlowe

Martin, Mathew R.

Hardcover

Series: Revels Plays

Literary CriticismTheater HistoryPlays

ISBN10: 1526117754
ISBN13: 9781526117755
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Aug 3 2021
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

This volume presents a modernised edition of Christopher Marlowe's critical engagement with one of the bloodiest and traumatic episodes of the French Wars of Religion, the wholesale massacre of French Huguenots in Paris in August, 1572. Sensorily shocking and intellectually gripping, the play's dramatic action spans a tumultuous two decades in French history to unfold for its audience the tragic consequences of religious fanaticism, power politics, and dynastic rivalry.

Comprehensively introduced and containing full commentary notes, this edition opens up this frequently neglected but historically significant and dramatically powerful play to student and scholar alike. The introduction examines such topics as the history of the massacre, the play's treatment of its sources, the play's dramatisation of trauma, and the play's exploration of notions of religious toleration.

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