Theatre, Politics, and Markets in Fin-De-Si鐵le Paris: Staging Modernity (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781403970411)

Since the Enlightenment, French theatre has occupied a prominent place within French thought, society and culture, but as a subject of study it has remained a purview of theatre historians, literary scholars and aestheticians. They focus on the emergence of the modern theatre as change generated from within bourgeois literary drama but ignore theatre as a complex social practice. Theatre, Politics, and Markets in Fin-de-Si鐵le Paris investigates the dynamic relationships among the avant-garde, official culture and the commercial sphere, arguing against the neat divide of 'high' and 'low' culture by showing how cultural forms of varying social origins influenced each other.

Author: S. Charnow
ISBN-10: 1403970416
ISBN-13: 9781403970411
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 12/13/2005
Pages: 268
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.78w x 0.80d