Revolutionary acts : theater, democracy, and the French revolution /
Maslan, Susan,1963-author.
Susan Maslan demonstrates how theatre played a pivotal role in revolutionary France, positioning the theatrical stage as a battleground on which the people of Paris and the government fought for municipal control.
Originally published: 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-266) and index.
Resisting representation: theater and democracy in revolutionary France -- The comic revolution: Molire, Rousseau, Fabre d'Eglantine, and revolutionary antitheatricalism -- Robespierre's eye: revolutionary surveillance and the modern republican subject -- The home and the world: domestic surveillance and revolutionary drama.
Susan Maslan demonstrates how theatre played a pivotal role in revolutionary France, positioning the theatrical stage as a battleground on which the people of Paris and the government fought for municipal control.
Theater
French drama