Revolutionary Acts

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4214-1694-6
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 471 g

Reihe: Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society

In Revolutionary Acts Susan Maslan shows how theater played a pivotal role in Revolutionary France, positioning the theatrical stage as a battleground on which Parisian audiences, actors and playwrights, and political authorities fought to shape the newly emerging democracy.

Examining the production, performance, and reception of Parisian plays between 1789 and 1794, Maslan sheds new light on two issues central to the political cultures of Paris and France: the nature of political representation—specifically the problematic relationship between direct democracy and representative democracy—and the correlative problem of transparency and its relation to theatricality.

While traditional scholarship emphasizes the influence of newspapers and books on the French Revolution, Maslan's erudite analysis reveals the rich and powerful impact of theater on France's fledgling democracy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maslan, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Resisting Representation
2. The Comic Revolution
3. Robespierre's Eye
4. The Home and the World
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Maslan, Susan
Susan Maslan is an associate professor of French at the University of California–Berkeley.