What: online exhibit created by Hélène Bilis and Wellesley students, featuring historical inspirations for Marie-Antoinette's hairstyles (with many 17th century references)
To view the exhibit: http://scalar.usc.edu/works/des-coiffures-pour-lhistoire/index
To view the article featuring the project: http://www.journal18.org/nq/between-hairstyle-and-history-marie-antoinet...
What: marionnette parody based in part on play by Jean-François Regnard (1689)
When: 7-29 July 2017
Where: Chapeau d'Ebène Théâtre - 13 Rue Velouterie, 84000 Avignon
For more information, see:
http://www.faenza.fr/fr/productions/polichinelle-et-orphee-aux-enfersl
or call 04 90 82 21 22 for reservations
Rare Book Exhibit at the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto
SPIRITUS VITALIS: MELANCHOLY AND HUMOURAL SCIENCE IN THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD
Drawing on a variety of materials from plays to herbals to religious volumes, this exhibition of rare books from the rare book collection of the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (U of T) offers an interdisciplinary overview of the concept of the humours - with a particular emphasis on the "horrible humour" of melancholy - in the early modern period. The four humours and their related fluids – sanguine (blood), choleric (yellow bile), phlegmatic (phlegm) and melancholic (black bile) – were believed during the period to inform and provide the foundation for a person’s character and wellness. The exhibit sheds light on one of the fundamental questions broached by scholars of this period, as it played out across print culture: who had the "right" or responsibility to diagnose melancholy and offer remedies or solutions?
[Thank you to Claire Carlin for passing this on]
In the second part of this free, open course by Université de Paris-Sorbonne, Georges Forestier leads you through the classical theater and contributions of Corneille, Moliere, and Racine:
Free registration: https://www.edx.org/…/la-decouverte-du-theatre-classique-so…
