Catalog of the Theatre and Drama Collections: Non-book collection. 30 v
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Published: 1967
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Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Published: 1967
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 614
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 964
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 248
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Published: 1977-04
Total Pages: 860
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Author: Library of Congress
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 32
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 232
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Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 1610
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Publisher: 清华大学出版社有限公司
Published: 1933
Total Pages: 344
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas Wynn
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2024-01-10
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0198895348
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReading Drama in Eighteenth-Century France is the first book-length study of how plays were read in eighteenth-century France and, relatedly, of closet drama: excessive plays that cannot be performed within the playhouse's confines and which thus appeal to the reader's imagination. This period in France was characterized by 'théâtromanie', a craze that encompassed the page as well as the stage. The book's first part surveys the historical context in which plays were read and offers a theoretical model for understanding this practice. The eighteenth-century closet was valued as a privileged site of reading. Although scholars routinely present this room as a place of calm reflection, Thomas Wynn develops a framework (derived in part from queer theory) to argue that it fosters passionate and disruptive pleasures that elude the coercive normativity of the playhouse. To explore the multipositional experience of reading plays in this period, Wynn turns to the journal Mercure de France, whose extensive reviews help us to think about geographies of reading, coercion, and autonomy. The second part examines how dramatists exploited the critical, imaginative, and formal potential of the reading experience. It offers close analysis of several closet plays: comedies depicting the dispute between Jesuits and Jansenists in the 1730s; Hénault's historical drama François II, roi de France (1747); and erotic plays from the end of the period. The study concludes with an account of Rétif de La Bretonne's Le Drame de la vie (1793)—an extreme and arguably unsurpassed example of closet drama. Ultimately, this book shows, closet drama is not failed theatre but rather an indisputable part of the lively, passionate, and combative theatrical culture of eighteenth-century France.