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Molière, the French Revolution, and the theatrical afterlife /
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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
©2009.
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| Series: | Studies in theatre history and culture.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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 hon. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 184 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-178) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781587298912 1587298910 |