Author: Jean-Baptiste-Pierre LafittePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The French Stage and the French People
Author: Jean-Baptiste-Pierre LafittePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The French Stage and the French People, as Illustrated in the Memoirs of M. Fleury. Edited by Theodore Hook
Author: Joseph Abraham BÉNARD (called Fleury.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
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.
France, Social, Literary, Political
Author: Henry Lytton Bulwer Baron Dalling and BulwerPublisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
The French Stage in the XVIIth Century
Author: Thomas Edward LawrensonPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The French Stage in The Eighteenth Century
Author: First Supplement to the Catalogue of the Young Men's Association Library of the City of Buffalo
Author: Young Men's Association of the City of Buffalo. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Adventures of an Actor: Comprising a Picture of the French Stage During a Period of Fifty Years
Author: Theodore Edward HookPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385129192
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1842.
The Theatre
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Vol. for 1888 includes dramatic directory for Feb.-Dec.; vol. for 1889 includes dramatic directory for Jan.-May.
The National Geographic Magazine
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Indexes kept up to date with supplements.