Studies Theatre Hist & Culture: Moliere, the French Revolution, and the Theatrical Afterlife (PDF)
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From 1680 until the French Revolution, when legislation abolished restrictions on theatrical enterprise, a single theatre held sole proprietorship of Moliere's works. After 1791, his plays were performed in new theatres all over Paris by new actors, before...
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From 1680 until the French Revolution, when legislation abolished restrictions on theatrical enterprise, a single theatre held sole proprietorship of Moliere'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 Moliere, 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 honor in the nation's new cultural memory.Leon begins by analyzing the performance of Molire's plays during the Revolution, showing how his privileged position as royal servant was disrupted by the practical conditions of the revolutionary theatre. Next she explores Molire's relationship to Louis XIV, Tartuffe, and the social function of his comedy, using Rousseau's famous critique of Molire as well as appropriations of George Dandin in revolutionary iconography to discuss how Molirean laughter was retooled to serve republican interests. After examining the profusion of plays dealing with his life in the latter years of the Revolution, she looks at the exhumation of his remains and their reentombment as the tangible manifestation of his passage from Ancien Rgime favorite to new national icon.The great Molire is appreciated by theatre artists and audiences worldwide, but for the French people it is no exaggeration to say that the Father of French Comedy is part of their national soul. By showing how he was represented, reborn, and reburied in the new France-how the revolutionaries asserted his relevance for their tumultuous time in ways that were audacious, irreverent, imaginative, and extreme-Leon clarifies the important role of theatrical figures in preserving and portraying a nation's history.
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- Autor: Leon Mechele Leon
- 2009, 196 Seiten, Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1587298910
- ISBN-13: 9781587298912
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.10.2009
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