Theatricality and violence in Paris, 1788 /
"Although densest in theatres, theatricality extended everywhere in eighteenth-century Paris - to the Parlement, where magistrates declaimed like Roman senators; the Châtelet court, where cases were staged like dramas; salons and cafés, where wits put on performances; and street scenes, where f...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
[2022]
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| Series: | Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Although densest in theatres, theatricality extended everywhere in eighteenth-century Paris - to the Parlement, where magistrates declaimed like Roman senators; the Châtelet court, where cases were staged like dramas; salons and cafés, where wits put on performances; and street scenes, where fishmongers, peddlers, organ-grinders and beggars clamoured for the attention of passers-by. In public spaces everywhere, Paris was a comédie humaine." Theatricality and Violence in Paris, 1788 is a lecture conducted by renowned scholar Robert Darnton at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford and extracted from Voltaire: an Oxford Celebration, edition N. Cronk, A. Oliver and G. Pink (Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2022--Publisher's website. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (21 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781802079319 1802079319 |