Author: Joseph Abraham Bénard
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Category : Actors, French
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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The French stage and the French people, as illustrated in the memoirs of m. Fleury, ed. by T. Hook
Author: Joseph Abraham Bénard
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Category : Actors, French
Languages : en
Pages : 822
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Actors, French
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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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.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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The French Stage and the French People
Author: Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Lafitte
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Molière, the French Revolution, and the Theatrical Afterlife
Author: Mechele Leon
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
The New Monthly Magazine and Universal Register
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register
Author: Thomas Campbell
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Languages : en
Pages : 590
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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France, Social, Literary, Political
Author: Henry Lytton Bulwer Baron Dalling and Bulwer
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Shakespeare and the French Borders of English
Author: Michael Saenger
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137357398
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
This study emerges from an interdisciplinary conversation about the theory of translation and the role of foreign language in fiction and society. By analyzing Shakespeare's treatment of France, Saenger interrogates the cognitive borders of England - a border that was more dependent on languages and ideas than it was on governments and shorelines.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137357398
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
This study emerges from an interdisciplinary conversation about the theory of translation and the role of foreign language in fiction and society. By analyzing Shakespeare's treatment of France, Saenger interrogates the cognitive borders of England - a border that was more dependent on languages and ideas than it was on governments and shorelines.