Staging Sanctity: Moral Confusion in Pierre Troterel's "Tragédie de sainte Agnès"

Reading Pierre Troterel's La Tragédie de sainte Agnès ( 1615) against Counter-Reformation discourses, "Staging Sanctity" argues that this depiction of the patron saint of virginity slips between praise and subversion, thus creating moral confusion between official doxae on sanctity an...

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Veröffentlicht in:	L'Esprit créateur 2010-03, Vol.50 (1), p.49-61
1. Verfasser:	Meere, Michael
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Brothels Catholic reformation Catholicism Censorship Christianity Rape Sanctity Sexual violence Theater Tragic theater
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Zusammenfassung:	Reading Pierre Troterel's La Tragédie de sainte Agnès ( 1615) against Counter-Reformation discourses, "Staging Sanctity" argues that this depiction of the patron saint of virginity slips between praise and subversion, thus creating moral confusion between official doxae on sanctity and representations of martyrs on the early modern urban stage.
ISSN:	0014-0767 1931-0234 1931-0234
DOI:	10.1353/esp.0.0203