Coquettes, Wives, and Widows: Gender Politics in French Baroque Opera and Theater

by Marcie Ray

Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French theatrical works created an uneasy dialogue with the often-blistering depictions of marriage in contemporary writings by literary women. For over a century, composers and librettists attempted to silence such anti-traditionalist views through dramas that ridicule, banish, or, even more violently, silence and subjugate female characters who resist marriage. These dramas portray independent-minded women as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580469884
• ISBN13: 9781580469883
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.0"