Moliere, the French Revolution, and the Theatrical Afterlife

Informationen zum Autor Mechele Leon is an assistant professor in the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Kansas. She has published essays in French Historical Studies! the European Studies journal! Theatre Journal! and L'Autre au XVIIIeme siecle. Klappentext Demonstrates how revolutionaries challenged the ties that bound Moliere, a comic playwright to the Old Regime and provided him with a place of honor in the nation's new cultural memory. This book analyzes the performance of Moliere's plays during the Revolution. Zusammenfassung Demonstrates how revolutionaries challenged the ties that bound Moliere! a comic playwright to the Old Regime and provided him with a place of honor in the nation's new cultural memory. This book analyzes the performance of Moliere's plays during the Revolution.

Product details

• Authors: Mechele Leon
• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.09.2009
• EAN: 9781587298219
• ISBN: 978-1-58729-821-9
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Studies in Theatre History and Culture; Studies in Theatre History & C; Studies Theatre Hist & Culture; Studies in Theatre History and Culture; Studies in Theatre History & C
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies