French Drama Of The Revolutionary Years
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French Drama Of The Revolutionary Years
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Author : Graham E. Rodmell
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-03-31
French Drama Of The Revolutionary Years written by Graham E. Rodmell and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
French Drama of the Revolutionary Years (1990) examines the years following the Revolution which saw an explosion both in the number of theatres and in the number of dramatic representations written and performed. It describes this turbulent period of theatre history, placing it firmly within the context of French social and political life, and illustrating the discussion with examinations of contemporary texts. It focuses on the political and philosophical themes of the plays, and the light they throw on events of the time.
The Sentimental Theater Of The French Revolution
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Author : Cecilia Feilla
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-03
The Sentimental Theater Of The French Revolution written by Cecilia Feilla and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-03 with Performing Arts categories.
Smoothly blending performance theory, literary analysis, and historical insights, Cecilia Feilla explores the mutually dependent discourses of feeling and politics and their impact on the theatre and theatre audiences during the French Revolution. Remarkably, the most frequently performed and popular plays from 1789 to 1799 were not the political action pieces that have been the subject of much literary and historical criticism, but rather sentimental dramas and comedies, many of which originated on the stages of the Old Regime. Feilla suggests that theatre provided an important bridge from affective communities of sentimentality to active political communities of the nation, arguing that the performance of virtue on stage served to foster the passage from private emotion to public virtue and allowed groups such as women, children, and the poor who were excluded from direct political participation to imagine a new and inclusive social and political structure. Providing close readings of texts by, among others, Denis Diderot, Collot d'Herbois, and Voltaire, Feilla maps the ways in which continuities and innovations in the theatre from 1760 to 1800 set the stage for the nineteenth century. Her book revitalizes and enriches our understanding of the significance of sentimental drama, showing that it was central to the way that drama both shaped and was shaped by political culture.
Staging The French Revolution
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Author : Mark Darlow
language : en
Publisher: OUP USA
Release Date : 2012-05-31
Staging The French Revolution written by Mark Darlow and has been published by OUP USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-31 with History categories.
In Staging the French Revolution, author Mark Darlow offers an unprecedented opportunity to consider the material context of opera production, combining in-depth archival research with a study of the works themselves. He argues that a mixture of popular and State interventions created a repressive system in which cultural institutions retained agency, compelling individuals to follow and contribute to a shifting culture. Theatre thereby emerged as a locus for competing discourses on patriotism, society, the role of the arts in the Republic, and the articulation of the Revolution's relation with the 'Old Regime', and is thus an essential key to the understanding of public opinion and publicity at this crucial historical moment.
The Sentimental Theater Of The French Revolution
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Author : Cecilia Feilla
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
The Sentimental Theater Of The French Revolution written by Cecilia Feilla and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Books and reading categories.
The French Revolution And The London Stage 1789 1805
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Author : George Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2000
The French Revolution And The London Stage 1789 1805 written by George Taylor and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Drama categories.
This 2001 book looks at how British drama and popular entertainment were affected by the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars.
The French Revolution Complete
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Author : Hippolyte Adolphe Taine
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
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The French Revolution Complete written by Hippolyte Adolphe Taine and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
During the night of July 14-15, 1789, the Duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt caused Louis XVI to be aroused to inform him of the taking of the Bastille. "It is a revolt, then?" exclaimed the King. "Sire!" replied the Duke; "it is a revolution!" The event was even more serious. Not only had power slipped from the hands of the King, but also it had not fallen into those of the Assembly. It now lay on the ground, ready to the hands of the unchained populace, the violent and over-excited crowd, the mobs, which picked it up like some weapon that had been thrown away in the street. In fact, there was no longer any government; the artificial structure of human society was giving way entirely; things were returning to a state of nature. This was not a revolution, but a dissolution. Two causes excite and maintain the universal upheaval. The first one is food shortages and dearth, which being constant, lasting for ten years, and aggravated by the very disturbances which it excites, bids fair to inflame the popular passions to madness, and change the whole course of the Revolution into a series of spasmodic stumbles. When a stream is brimful, a slight rise suffices to cause an overflow. So was it with the extreme distress of the eighteenth century. A poor man, who finds it difficult to live when bread is cheap, sees death staring him in the face when it is dear. In this state of suffering the animal instinct revolts, and the universal obedience which constitutes public peace depends on a degree more or less of dryness or damp, heat or cold. In 1788, a year of severe drought, the crops had been poor. In addition to this, on the eve of the harvest, a terrible hail-storm burst over the region around Paris, from Normandy to Champagne, devastating sixty leagues of the most fertile territory, and causing damage to the amount of one hundred millions of francs. Winter came on, the severest that had been seen since 1709. At the close of December the Seine was frozen over from Paris to Havre, while the thermometer stood at 180 below zero. A third of the olive-trees died in Provence, and the rest suffered to such an extent that they were considered incapable of bearing fruit for two years to come. The same disaster befell Languedoc. In Vivarais, and in the Cevennes, whole forests of chestnuts had perished, along with all the grain and grass crops on the uplands. On the plain the Rhone remained in a state of overflow for two months.
Revolutionary Acts
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Author : Susan Maslan
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2005-08-26
Revolutionary Acts written by Susan Maslan and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
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Tragedy Walks The Streets
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Author : Matthew S. Buckley
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2006-09-19
Tragedy Walks The Streets written by Matthew S. Buckley and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
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Historical Dictionary Of French Theater
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Author : Edward Forman
language : en
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2010-04-27
Historical Dictionary Of French Theater written by Edward Forman and has been published by Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-27 with Performing Arts categories.
The term "French theater" evokes most immediately the glories of the classical period and the peculiarities of the Theater of the Absurd. It has given us the works of Corneille, Racine, and Moliere. In the Romantic era there was Alexander Dumas and surrealist works of Alfred Jarry, and then the Theater of the Absurd erupted in rationalistic France with Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, and Jean-Paul Sartre. The Historical Dictionary of French Theater relates the history of the French theater through a chronology, introduction, bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, trends, genres, concepts, and literary and historical developments that played a central role in the evolution of French theater.
Moli Re The French Revolution And The Theatrical Afterlife
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Author : Mechele Leon
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2009-10
Moli Re The French Revolution And The Theatrical Afterlife written by Mechele Leon and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10 with Drama categories.
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.