LEADER 05273nam 2200781Ia 450 001 9910453155503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-6820-5 010 $a0-8014-6821-3 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801468216 035 $a(CKB)2550000001038544 035 $a(OCoLC)829452684 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10645968 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000820444 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11470580 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000820444 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10862217 035 $a(PQKB)10953740 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001499245 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138413 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28741 035 $a(DE-B1597)478435 035 $a(OCoLC)979684433 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801468216 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138413 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10645968 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681586 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001038544 100 $a20120812d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aStagestruck$b[electronic resource] $ethe business of theater in eighteenth-century France and its colonies /$fLauren R. Clay 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (353 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-50304-4 311 $a0-8014-5038-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tList of Illustrations -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: The Making of a French Theater Industry -- $t1. Investing in the Arts -- $t2. Designing the Civic Playhouse -- $t3. The Extent and Limits of State Intervention -- $t4. Directors and the Business of Performing -- $t5. The Work of Acting -- $t6. Consumers of Culture -- $t7. The Production of Theater in the Colonies -- $tEpilogue: Culture, Commerce, and the State -- $tAppendix: Timeline of Inaugurations and Significant Renovations of Dedicated Public Theaters in France and the French Colonies, 1671-1789 -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography of Primary Sources -- $tIndex 330 $aStagestruck traces the making of a vibrant French theater industry between the reign of Louis XIV and the French Revolution. During this era more than eighty provincial and colonial cities celebrated the inauguration of their first public playhouses. These theaters emerged as the most prominent urban cultural institutions in prerevolutionary France, becoming key sites for the articulation and contestation of social, political, and racial relationships. Combining rich description with nuanced analysis based on extensive archival evidence, Lauren R. Clay illuminates the wide-ranging consequences of theater's spectacular growth for performers, spectators, and authorities in cities throughout France as well as in the empire's most important Atlantic colony, Saint-Domingue.Clay argues that outside Paris the expansion of theater came about through local initiative, civic engagement, and entrepreneurial investment, rather than through actions or policies undertaken by the royal government and its agents. Reconstructing the business of theatrical production, she brings to light the efforts of a wide array of investors, entrepreneurs, directors, and actors-including women and people of color-who seized the opportunities offered by commercial theater to become important agents of cultural change.Portraying a vital and increasingly consumer-oriented public sphere beyond the capital, Stagestruck overturns the long-held notion that cultural change flowed from Paris and the royal court to the provinces and colonies. This deeply researched book will appeal to historians of Europe and the Atlantic world, particularly those interested in the social and political impact of the consumer revolution and the forging of national and imperial cultural networks. In addition to theater and literary scholars, it will attract the attention of historians and sociologists who study business, labor history, and the emergence of the modern French state. 606 $aTheater and society$zFrance$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aTheater and society$zWest Indies, French$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aTheater$xEconomic aspects$zFrance$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aTheater$xEconomic aspects$zWest Indies, French$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aTheater management$zFrance$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aTheater management$zWest Indies, French$xHistory$y18th century 607 $aFrance$xSocial life and customs$y18th century 607 $aWest Indies, French$xSocial life and customs$y18th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aTheater and society$xHistory 615 0$aTheater and society$xHistory 615 0$aTheater$xEconomic aspects$xHistory 615 0$aTheater$xEconomic aspects$xHistory 615 0$aTheater management$xHistory 615 0$aTheater management$xHistory 676 $a792.0944/09033 676 $a792.0944/09033 700 $aClay$b Lauren$01031366 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453155503321 996 $aStagestruck$92448708 997 $aUNINA