Dramatic justice : trial by theater in the age of the French Revolution /

For most of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, classical dogma and royal censorship worked together to prevent French plays from commenting on, or even worse, reenacting current political and judicial affairs. Criminal trials, meanwhile, were designed to be as untheatrical as possible, exclud...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Robert, Yann (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]
Subjects:
1700-1799
Justice, Administration of > France > History > 18th century.
Theater > Political aspects > France > History > 18th century.
Théâtre > Aspect politique > France > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Justice > Administration > France > Histoire > 18e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
Justice, Administration of
Theater > Political aspects
France
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Fixing the law: reenactment in Diderot's Fils naturel
  • The many faces of Aristophanes: the rise of a judicial theater
  • Players at the bar: the birth of the modern lawyer
  • Judges, spectators, and theatrocracy
  • From Parterre to Pater: dreaming of domestic tribunals
  • Performing justice in the early years of the revolution
  • The curtain falls on judicial theater and theatrical justice

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