Staging The French Revolution
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Author | : Mark Darlow |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2012-05-03 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0199773807 |
Over the last decade, the theatre and opera of the French Revolution have been the subject of intense scholarly reassessment, both in terms of the relationship between theatrical works and politics or ideology in this period and on the question of longer-scale structures of continuity or rupture in aesthetics. Staging the French Revolution: Cultural Politics and the Paris Opera, 1789-1794 moves these discussions boldly forward, focusing on the Paris Opéra (Académie Royale de Musique) in the cultural and political context of the early French Revolution. Both institutional history and cultural study, this is the first ever full-scale study of the Revolution and lyric theatre. The book concentrates on three aspects of how a royally-protected theatre negotiates the transition to national theatre: the external dimension, such as questions of ownership and governance and the institution's relationship with State institutions and popular assemblies; the internal management, finances, selection and preparation of works; and the cultural and aesthetic study of the works themselves and of their reception. In Staging the French Revolution, author Mark Darlow offers an unprecedented view of the material context of opera production, combining in-depth archival research with a study of the works themselves. He argues that a mixture of popular and State interventions created a repressive system in which cultural institutions retained agency, compelling individuals to follow and contribute to a shifting culture. Theatre thereby emerged as a locus for competing discourses on patriotism, society, the role of the arts in the Republic, and the articulation of the Revolution's relation with the 'Old Regime', and is thus an essential key to the understanding of public opinion and publicity at this crucial historical moment. Combining recent approaches to institutions, sociability, and authors' rights with cultural studies of opera, Staging the French Revolution takes a historically grounded and methodologically innovative cross-disciplinary approach to opera and persuasively re-evaluates the long-standing, but rather sterile, concept of propaganda.
Author | : Mark Darlow |
Publisher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2012-05-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199773726 |
In Staging the French Revolution, author Mark Darlow offers an unprecedented opportunity to consider the material context of opera production, combining in-depth archival research with a study of the works themselves. He argues that a mixture of popular and State interventions created a repressive system in which cultural institutions retained agency, compelling individuals to follow and contribute to a shifting culture. Theatre thereby emerged as a locus for competing discourses on patriotism, society, the role of the arts in the Republic, and the articulation of the Revolution's relation with the 'Old Regime', and is thus an essential key to the understanding of public opinion and publicity at this crucial historical moment.
Author | : George Taylor |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0521630525 |
This 2001 book looks at how British drama and popular entertainment were affected by the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars.
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Features a database of plays and operas performed in Paris from 1789 to 1799, presented by Mark Olsen as part of the Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language of the University of Chicago. Notes that authorization is required to use the database.
Author | : Michael Burden |
Publisher | : Bodleian Library |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : PERFORMING ARTS |
ISBN | : 9781851244560 |
"In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, historical subjects became some of the most popular topics for stage dramas of all kinds on both sides of the Atlantic. The medium of drama ensured that the telling of these histories--the French Revolution and the American War of Independence, for example, or the travels of Captain Cook and Christopher Columbus--were brought to life through words, music and spectacle. The scale of the productions was often ambitious: a water tank with model floating ships was deployed at Sadler's Wells for the staging of the Siege of Gibraltar, and another production on the same theme used live cannons which set fire to the vessels in each performance. Exploring contemporary theatrical documents and images including playbills, set designs, musical scores and prints, this illustrated collection of essays examines a number of extraordinary dramatic productions and casts light on their role in shaping a popular interpretation of historical events."--
Author | : Hilaire Belloc |
Publisher | : Prabhat Prakashan |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2023-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
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The French Revolution - Volume 1 by Hippolyte Taine: Hippolyte Taine's seminal work on the French Revolution offers a comprehensive analysis of this transformative period in history. In Volume 1, Taine delves into the historical events and sociopolitical factors that led to the revolution's outbreak. He examines the conditions of French society, the influence of Enlightenment ideas, and the role of key figures. With meticulous research and insightful commentary, Taine's work remains a significant resource for understanding the complexities and impact of the French Revolution. Key Aspects of the Book "The French Revolution - Volume 1 by Hippolyte Taine": Historical Context: Taine provides readers with a thorough examination of the social, economic, and political context that set the stage for the French Revolution. In-depth Analysis: The book presents a detailed analysis of the events leading up to the revolution and the factors that shaped its course. Impact and Legacy: Hippolyte Taine's work offers valuable insights into the consequences and lasting effects of the French Revolution on France and the world. Hippolyte Taine was a prominent French historian and philosopher of the 19th century. His research and writings focused on cultural history and the analysis of social phenomena. As a keen observer and scholar, Taine's work on the French Revolution remains influential in the study of this pivotal period in European history.
Author | : Malcolm Boyd |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1992-04-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521402873 |
Rouget de Lisle's famous anthem, La marseillaise, admirably reflects the confidence and enthusiasm of the early years of the French Revolution. But the effects on music of the Revolution and the events that followed it in France were more far-reaching than that. Hymns, chansons and even articles of the Constitution set to music in the form of vaudevilles all played their part in disseminating Revolutionary ideas and principles; music education was reorganized to compensate for the loss of courtly institutions and the weakened maitrises of cathedrals and churches. Opera, in particular, was profoundly affected, in both its organization and its subject matter, by the events of 1789 and the succeeding decade. The essays in this book, written by specialists in the period, deal with all these aspects of music in Revolutionary France, highlighting the composers and writers who played a major role in the changes that took place there. They also identify some of the traditions and genres that survived the Revolution, and look at the effects on music of Napoleon's invasion of Italy.
Author | : Caroline Gleason-Mercier |
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Release | : 2023 |
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Author | : Matthew S. Buckley |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2006-09-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0801884349 |
Author | : Paul Friedland |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2018-08-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501724231 |
From the start of the French Revolution, contemporary observers were struck by the overwhelming theatricality of political events. Examples of convergence between theater and politics included the election of dramatic actors to powerful political and military positions and reports that deputies to the National Assembly were taking acting lessons and planting paid "claqueurs" in the audience to applaud their employers on demand. Meanwhile, in a mock national assembly that gathered in an enormous circus pavilion in the center of Paris, spectators paid for the privilege of acting the role of political representatives for a day.Paul Friedland argues that politics and theater became virtually indistinguishable during the Revolutionary period because of a parallel evolution in the theories of theatrical and political representation. Prior to the mid-eighteenth century, actors on political and theatrical stages saw their task as embodying a fictional entity—in one case a character in a play, in the other, the corpus mysticum of the French nation. Friedland details the significant ways in which after 1750 the work of both was redefined. Dramatic actors were coached to portray their parts abstractly, in a manner that seemed realistic to the audience. With the creation of the National Assembly, abstract representation also triumphed in the political arena. In a break from the past, this legislature did not claim to be the nation, but rather to speak on its behalf. According to Friedland, this new form of representation brought about a sharp demarcation between actors—on both stages—and their audience, one that relegated spectators to the role of passive observers of a performance that was given for their benefit but without their direct participation. Political Actors, a landmark contribution to eighteenth-century studies, furthers understanding not only of the French Revolution but also of the very nature of modern representative democracy.