Author: Joseph Abraham BénardPublisher:
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Category : Actors, French
Languages : en
Pages : 822
Book Description
The French stage and the French people, as illustrated in the memoirs of m. Fleury, ed. by T. Hook
Author: Joseph Abraham BénardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors, French
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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The French Stage and the French People
Author: Jean-Baptiste-Pierre LafittePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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 : 438
Book Description
The French Stage and the French People as Illustrated in the Memoirs of M. Fleury
Author: Abraham Joseph Bénard Fleury (known as)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages :
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 :
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.
Catalogue of the Private Library of the Late Henry Bright, Esq., of Northampton, Mass.
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385420776
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 958
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Allen A. Brown Collection of Books Relating to the Stage in the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Allen A. Brown Collection (Boston Public Library)Publisher: Boston : The Trustees
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 976
Book Description
A Catalogue of Upwards of Fifty Thousand Volumes, of Ancient & Modern Books, English & Foreign, in All Classes of Literature & the Fine Arts, Including Rare & Curious Books, Manuscripts, Etc...now on Sale...
Author: A Catalogue of Upwards of Fifty Thousand Volumes of Ancient and Modern Books, English and Foreign
Author: Willis and Sotheran (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 654
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