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200 10$aMoliere, the French revolution, and the theatrical afterlife /$fby Mechele Leon
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$d2009
215   $a1 online resource (198 p.)
225 1 $aStudies in theatre history and culture
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a1-58729-821-X 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references.
327   $aRepertory: the popularity of Moliere's plays -- Performance: the "high/low" Moliere -- History: rewriting the story of Moliere & Louis XIV -- Function: retooling Molierean laughter -- Life: depicting Moliere in biographical drama -- Death: remembering Moliere -- Epilogue: the future of an afterlife.
330   $aFrom 1680 until the French Revolution, when legislation abolished restrictions on theatrical enterprise, a single theatre held sole proprietorship of Molie?re'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 Molie?re, 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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606   $aFrench literature$y17th century$xHistory and criticism
615  0$aFrench literature$xHistory and criticism.
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