Popular theatres of nineteenth-century France /

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This is the only book to provide an account of how popular theatre developed from the fairground booths of the eighteenth century to become a vehicle of mass entertainment in the following century. Whereas other studies offer a traditional approach to the theatres of high culture, John McCormick tak...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McCormick, John, 1938-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Theater > France > History > 19th century.
Theater and society > France.
Théâtre > France > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Théâtre et société > France.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > History & Criticism.
Theater
Theater and society
France
Theatre > History
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter INTRODUCTION
  • part Part I
  • chapter 1 LES THEATRES SECONDAIRES
  • chapter 2 EQUESTRIANS AND ACROBATS
  • chapter 3 AWAY FROM THE CENTRE--THE SUBURBS AND THE PROVINCES
  • chapter 4 'FORAINS' AND FIT-UPS
  • chapter 5 AUDIENCES
  • chapter 6 ECONOMICS AND ECONOMIC PROBLEMS
  • chapter 7 CENSORSHIP
  • part Part II
  • chapter 8 THE VAUDEVILLE
  • chapter 9 PANTOMIME
  • chapter 10 THE FEERIE
  • chapter 11 THE EARLY MELODRAMA
  • chapter 12 THE SOCIAL MELODRAMA
  • chapter 13 POPULAR FICTION AND THE THEATRE.

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