Dramatic battles in eighteenth-century France
Subtitle: philosophes, anti-philosophes and polemical theatre
By: Logan J. Connors
Contributors: Voltaire Foundation
Series: SVEC -- 2012:07
Publisher: Voltaire Foundation
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780729410472
Subjects: Theater; History
Description: This work provides analysis of how the war of enlightenment ideas between philosophes and anti-philosophes was fought through theatre productions and plays, how theatre productions operated and engendered reactions from theatre-goers, and how this gave rise to modern theories of reception and spectatorship.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-266) and index.

Includes bibliography (p. 255-266) and index.