Anna Rosensweig, "Subjects of Affection: Rights of Resistance on the Early Modern French Stage "
English | ISBN: 0810144468 | 2021 | 240 pages | PDF | 14 MB
Subjects of Affection offers an alternative to the modern model of human rights in an unexpected archive: the monarchist tragedies that shaped Louis XIV's absolutist France. Pairing political theory with performance studies, Anna Rosensweig argues that the right of resistance, largely thought to have disappeared from French political thought in the aftermath of the religious wars of the sixteenth century, actually endured throughout the seventeenth century as a conceptual framework embedded and embodied in tragic drama.