Revolutionary acts
Subtitle: theater, democracy, and the French revolution
By: Susan Maslan.
Series: Parallax, re-visions of culture and society; Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
Subjects: Theater -- France -- History -- 18th century; French drama -- 18th century -- History and criticism; France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Theater and the revolution
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-266) and index.
Table of contents: title: Resisting representation: theater and democracy in revolutionary France; title: The comic revolution: Molire, Rousseau, Fabre d'Eglantine, and revolutionary antitheatricalism; title: Robespierre's eye: revolutionary surveillance and the modern republican subject; title: The home and the world: domestic surveillance and revolutionary drama.