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Theatre and state in France, 1760-1905 /

Relations between theatre and state were seldom more fraught in France than in the latter part of the eighteenth and during the nineteenth century. The unique attraction of the theatre, the sole source of mass entertainment over the period, accounts in part for this: successive governments could not...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Hemmings, F. W. J. (Frederick William John), 1920-1997
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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Table des matières:
  • 1. The royal theatres of the ancien regime
  • 2. The rise of the commercial theatre
  • 3. Dramatic censorship down to its abolition
  • 4. The liberation of the theatres
  • 5. The royal theatres under the Revolution
  • 6. The theatre in the service of the Republic
  • 7. Re-establishment of the state theatres
  • 8. Curbs on the commercial sector
  • 9. Politics and the pit
  • 10. The theatre in the provinces
  • 11. The licensing system, 1814-1864
  • 12. The state-supported theatres in the nineteenth century
  • 13. The theatre in crisis: competition from the cafe-concert
  • 14. Dramatic censorship in the nineteenth century
  • 15. The private sector.