If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Explore the baroque interest in meta-theatricality ("the play in the play") with deputy provost for the arts Larry Norman and Court Theatre artistic director Charles Newell. The discussion will concentrate on Pierre Corneille's 1636 L'illusion comique. The play is situated in the theatrical, literary, and artistic corpus of the seventeenth century: in France (Rotrou, Moliere, Descartes, Poussin); in Spain (Calderon, Velazquez); and beyond. Engage in the dramaturgical process and reflect on the contemporary adaptation of baroque theater, in particular Tony Kushner's version of Corneille's play.