Politics and Theater: The Crisis of Legitimacy in Restoration France, 1815-1830 Volume 40

by Sheryl Kroen

Book Overview

Moli re's anticlerical comedy Tartuffe is the unique prism through which Sheryl Kroen views postrevolutionary France in the years of the Restoration. Following the lead of the French men and women who turned to this play in the 1820s to make sense of their world, Kroen exposes the crisis of legitimacy defining the regime in these years and demonstrates how the people of the time made steps toward a democratic resolution to this crisis. Moving from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520222148
• ISBN13: 9780520222144
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"