Author: Charles Beaumont WicksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French drama
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Parisian Stage: 1831-1850
Author: Charles Beaumont WicksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French drama
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Parisian Stage: 1851-1875
Author: Charles Beaumont WicksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French drama
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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The Parisian Stage
Author: Charles Beaumont WicksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French drama
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Parisian Stage: 1876-1900
Author: Charles Beaumont WicksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Paris and the Musical
Author: Olaf JubinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429878621
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Paris and the Musical explores how the famous city has been portrayed on stage and screen, investigates why the city has been of such importance to the genre and tracks how it has developed as a trope over the 20th and 21st centuries. From global hits An American in Paris, Gigi, Les Misérables, Moulin Rouge! and The Phantom of the Opera to the less widely-known Bless the Bride, Can-Can, Irma la Douce and Marguerite, the French capital is a central character in an astounding number of Broadway, Hollywood and West End musicals. This collection of 18 essays combines cultural studies, sociology, musicology, art and adaptation theory, and gender studies to examine the envisioning and dramatisation of Paris, and its depiction as a place of romance, hedonism and libertinism or as ‘the capital of the arts’. The interdisciplinary nature of this collection renders it as a fascinating resource for a wide range of courses; it will be especially valuable for students and scholars of Musical Theatre and those interested in Theatre and Film History more generally.
The Parisian Stage: 1800-1815
Author: Charles Beaumont WicksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Parisian Stage
Author: C. Beaumont WicksPublisher:
ISBN: 9780817395049
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Modernism on Stage
Author: Juliet BellowPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9781409409113
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Modernism on Stage restores the Ballets Russes to its central role in the Parisian art world of the 1910s and 1920s, and includes close readings of ballets designed by Picasso, Delaunay, Matisse, and de Chirico. Dance is brought to bear upon modernist art history as more than a source of imagery, but as part of the avant-garde's articulation of the idea of a total work of art.
The Parisian Stage
Author: Charles Beaumont WicksPublisher:
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Category : French drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Molière, the French Revolution, and the Theatrical Afterlife
Author: Mechele LeonPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587298910
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
From 1680 until the French Revolution, when legislation abolished restrictions on theatrical enterprise, a single theatre held sole proprietorship of Molière’s works. After 1791, his plays were performed in new theatres all over Paris by new actors, before audiences new to his works. Both his plays and his image took on new dimensions. In Molière, the French Revolution, and the Theatrical Afterlife, Mechele Leon convincingly demonstrates how revolutionaries challenged the ties that bound this preeminent seventeenth-century comic playwright to the Old Regime and provided him with a place of honor in the nation’s new cultural memory. Leon begins by analyzing the performance of Molière’s plays during the Revolution, showing how his privileged position as royal servant was disrupted by the practical conditions of the revolutionary theatre. Next she explores Molière’s relationship to Louis XIV, Tartuffe, and the social function of his comedy, using Rousseau’s famous critique of Molière as well as appropriations of George Dandin in revolutionary iconography to discuss how Moliérean laughter was retooled to serve republican interests. After examining the profusion of plays dealing with his life in the latter years of the Revolution, she looks at the exhumation of his remains and their reentombment as the tangible manifestation of his passage from Ancien Régime favorite to new national icon. The great Molière is appreciated by theatre artists and audiences worldwide, but for the French people it is no exaggeration to say that the Father of French Comedy is part of their national soul. By showing how he was represented, reborn, and reburied in the new France—how the revolutionaries asserted his relevance for their tumultuous time in ways that were audacious, irreverent, imaginative, and extreme—Leon clarifies the important role of theatrical figures in preserving and portraying a nation’s history.