Claude Vignon: Cléopâtre se donnant la mort (17e siècle).

Conference Schedule

Fortune and Fatality: Performing the Tragic in Early Modern France (1553-1715)
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
20 October 2006

8:00-9:30 Registration (Room 4202) 

9:45-10:00 Welcome Address (Martin E. Segal Theatre) 

10:00-11:30 Panel I: The Theory of Tragedy (Martin E. Segal Theatre)

            Moderator: Desmond Hosford

            Yann Robert, Princeton University

                  “De la moralité des tragédies: le Saint Genest de Rotrou et la querelle du théâtre” 

            Jacqueline Libby, City University of New York

                  “‘Major e longinquo reverentia’: On Geographical and Historical Distance in Racine’s Bajazet” 

           
             Peter Kulsrud (New York University), “The Mise en Scène of the Late Baroque French Theater and the

                    Death of the Tragic Vision (1700-1743)”

11:30-11:45 Pause 

11:45-12:45 Panel II: Construction of the Tragic Self (Martin E. Segal Theatre)

            Moderator: Charles Wrightington 

            Sherod Marshall, University of Arkansas

                  “Cardinal de Retz as Stage Director: Exquisite Prevarication in the Aristocratic Drama of the Frondes” 

            Steven Johnston (Emory University),

                   “(Re)Writing Myth: Racine, Phèdre, and the Power of Re-Invention”

12:45-2:00 Lunch (Room 4202) 

2:15-3:45 Panel III: Gender and Tragedy (Room 4202)

            Moderator: Charles Wrightington 

            Hélène Billis-Gruson, University of California, Berkeley

                  “The Theatricality of Tragic Succession: Fathers Who Will not Die and Sons Who Cannot Reign” 

            Angèle Branca, City University of New York 
                 “Portrait de l'auteure dramatique en suppliant: Manlius de Marie-Catherine Desjardins”

            Sylvie Ngilla, University of Minnesota

                  “Les lois du trépas: mise à mort des femmes tragiques” 

3 :45-4 :00 Pause 

4 :00-5 :30 Keynote Address (Martin E. Segal Theatre)

            Domna C. Stanton

            Distinguished Professor of French, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York

                  “The Daughter’s Sacrifice: The Paternal Order in Racine’s Iphigénie” 

5:30-6:00 Pause (Room 4202) 

6:15  Concert

            La Musique de la Reine performs vocal and instrumental works by Clérambault, L. Couperin, Duphly, and Montéclair on period instruments.
            Concert Program