Molière, the French revolution, and the theatrical afterlife [[electronic resource] /] / by Mechele Leon

• Autore: Leon Mechele <1958->
• Pubblicazione: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (198 p.)
• Disciplina: 842.4; 842/.4
• Soggetto topico: French literature - 17th century - History and criticism
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Repertory: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Molière, the French revolution, and the theatrical afterlife
• ISBN: 1-58729-891-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791135203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in theatre history and culture.