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

by Marcie Ray

A revelatory study of how composers and dramatists of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France criticized and trivialized independent women in their portrayals of them in works of theater and opera.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580469884
• ISBN13: 9781580469883
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"