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Staging civilization : a transnational history of French theater in eighteenth-century Europe / Rahul Markovits ; translated by Jane Marie Todd.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Description: 1 online resource (x, 364 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813945552
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN2044 .S734 2021
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I: FRENCH THEATER AND THE EUROPEAN COURTS -- 1: The European Space of French Theater -- 2: A Europe-Wide Labor Market -- 3: Onstage -- 4: Behind the Scenes -- PART II: FROM THE ARMY THEATER TO CULTURAL IMPERIALISM -- 5: Gallantry and Soft Power -- 6: A Theater in Geneva? -- 7: Exporting Revolution? -- 8: Theater and Acculturation in the Annexed Departments -- EPILOGUE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- APPENDIX -- NOTES -- INDEX -- Recent Winners of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize
Subject: "By examining the presence of French companies of actors in a wide set of courts and cities throughout Europe, this book uncovers the complex mechanisms underpinning the dissemination of French culture during the long eighteenth century"--
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Translated from the original French into English.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Intro -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I: FRENCH THEATER AND THE EUROPEAN COURTS -- 1: The European Space of French Theater -- 2: A Europe-Wide Labor Market -- 3: Onstage -- 4: Behind the Scenes -- PART II: FROM THE ARMY THEATER TO CULTURAL IMPERIALISM -- 5: Gallantry and Soft Power -- 6: A Theater in Geneva? -- 7: Exporting Revolution? -- 8: Theater and Acculturation in the Annexed Departments -- EPILOGUE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- APPENDIX -- NOTES -- INDEX -- Recent Winners of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize

"By examining the presence of French companies of actors in a wide set of courts and cities throughout Europe, this book uncovers the complex mechanisms underpinning the dissemination of French culture during the long eighteenth century"--

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