Revolutionary Acts: Theater, Democracy, and the French Revolution

by Susan Maslan

In Revolutionary Acts Susan Maslan shows how theater played a pivotal role in Revolutionary France, positioning the theatrical stage as a battleground on which Parisian audiences, actors and playwrights, and political authorities fought to shape the newly emerging democracy.

Examining the production, performance, and reception of Parisian plays between 1789 and 1794, Maslan sheds new light on two issues central to the political cultures...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421416948
• ISBN13: 9781421416946
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher