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Playing the Martyr: Theater and Theology in Early Modern France
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S C È N E S F R A N C O P H O N E S
Playing the Martyr
T H E AT E R A N D T H E O LO GY
I N E A R LY M O D E R N F R A N C E
C H R I S T O P H E R S E M K
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Published by Bucknell University Press
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CONTENTS
Note on Translations vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: A Christian Melpomene? xi
1 The Separation of Church and Stage 1
2 The Spectacle of Martyrdom and the Spectacle of the Stage 32
3 “ Ex histrionis martyr factus”:
Genesius, Acting, and Martyrdom 62
4 Polyeucte, martyr and Corneille’s Sacramental Poetics 90
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NOTE ON TRANSLATIONS
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N ORDER TO MAKE the early modern texts under discussion ac-
cessible to a wide audience, they have been translated. I used modern translations
wherever possible. All translations, unless otherwise indicated, are my own.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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HIS BOOK WAS ORIGINALLY conceived as a doctoral
dissertation at Indiana University and I am deeply grateful to the many people
who helped to shape it along the way. First of all, this book would not have
been possible without the guidance and encouragement of Jérôme Brillaud and
Rebecca Wilkin, who not only directed the dissertation but continued to offer
their unflagging support in the years that followed. I am also grateful for the intel-
lectual support of my colleagues in the French department at Yale. I completed
substantial research for this book during a sabbatical that was supported by a
Morse Fellowship from Yale. I also thank Greg Clingham and Logan Connors for
their editorial assistance.
I am deeply indebted to the colleagues who have generously read portions
of the manuscript (and in some cases, the entire manuscript!), responded to con-
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ser sth suggestions for improvement at various stages of this project: Faith Beasley, Hall
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