Orientalism in French Classical Drama
Author: Michèle Longino
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-03-16
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780521025171
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMichèle Longino examines the ways in which Mediterranean exoticism inflects the themes represented in French classical drama. Longino explores plays by Corneille, Molière and Racine; Le Cid, Médée, and Le bourgeois gentilhomme among others. She offers a consideration of the role the staging of the near Orient played in shaping a sense of French colonial identity. Drawing on histories, travel journals, memoirs and correspondence, and bringing together literary and historical concerns, Longino considers these dramatisations in the context of French-Ottoman relations at the time of their production.