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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “yann robert”
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  • The Last Judgment of Kings / Le Jugement dernier des rois

    A Bilingual Edition

    Translated by Yann Robert ...
    by Sylvain Maréchal (1750-1803) ...
    Series series Scènes francophones: Studies in French and Francophone Theater
    First performed the day after Marie-Antoinette’s beheading, Le Jugement dernier des rois stages the burlesque trial of the remaining kings and queens of Europe—paraded in chains like animals, made to brawl over a barrel of crackers, and finally obliterated by a spectacular volcanic eruption. Such is the shocking context—at once tragic and farcical—of the most infamous play of the French Revolution ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Modes of Play in Eighteenth-Century France

    by Rori Bloom, Jean-Alexandre Perras, Zeina Hakim, Masano Yamashita, Erika Mandarino, Katharine Hargrave, Maria Teodora Comsa, Annelle Curulla, Yann Robert, Jeffrey M. Leichman ...
    Series series Scènes francophones: Studies in French and Francophone Theater
    Collecting diverse critical perspectives on the topic of play—from dolls, bilboquets, and lotteries, to writing itself—this volume offers new insights into how play was used to represent and reimagine the world in eighteenth-century France. In documenting various modes of play, contributors theorize its relation to law, religion, politics, and economics. Equally important was the role of “play” in ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Dramatic Justice

    Trial by Theater in the Age of the French Revolution

    by Yann Robert ...
    For most of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, classical dogma and royal censorship worked together to prevent French plays from commenting on, or even worse, reenacting current political and judicial affairs. Criminal trials, meanwhile, were designed to be as untheatrical as possible, excluding from the courtroom live debates, trained orators, and spectators. According to Yann Robert, ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Dramatic Justice

    Trial by Theater in the Age of the French Revolution

    by Yann Robert ...
    For most of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, classical dogma and royal censorship worked together to prevent French plays from commenting on, or even worse, reenacting current political and judicial affairs. Criminal trials, meanwhile, were designed to be as untheatrical as possible, excluding from the courtroom live debates, trained orators, and spectators. According to Yann Robert, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • The Sentimental Theater of the French Revolution

    by Cecilia Feilla ...
    Smoothly blending performance theory, literary analysis, and historical insights, Cecilia Feilla explores the mutually dependent discourses of feeling and politics and their impact on the theatre and theatre audiences during the French Revolution. Remarkably, the most frequently performed and popular plays from 1789 to 1799 were not the political action pieces that have been the subject of much ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-Century France

    Mastering Memory

    by Faith E. Beasley ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    The first half of the book is a detailed study of how the salons influenced the development of literature. Beasley argues that many women were not only writers, they also served as critics for the literary sphere as a whole. In the second half of the book Beasley examines how historians and literary critics subsequently portrayed the seventeenth century literary realm, which became identified with ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Amorous Restoration

    Love, Sex, and Politics in Early Nineteenth-Century France

    by Andrew J. Counter ...
    When Louis XVIII returned to the throne in 1814, and again in 1815, France embarked upon a period of uneasy cohabitation between the old and the new. The writers of the age, who included Chateaubriand, Stendhal, Balzac, and Mme de Duras, agreed that they lived at a historical turning point, a transitional moment whose outcome, though still uncertain, would transform the French way of life- ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Monsieur Proust's Library

    by Anka Muhlstein ...
    Reading was so important to Marcel Proust that it sometimes seems he was unable to create a personage without a book in hand. Everybody in his work reads: servants and masters, children and parents, artists and physicians. The more sophisticated characters find it natural to speak in quotations. Proust made literary taste a means of defining personalities and gave literature an actual role to play ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Great Cat Massacre

    And Other Episodes in French Cultural History

    by Robert Darnton ...
    **The landmark history of France and French culture in the eighteenth century, a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.“Robert Darnton has the inquisitiveness of an investigative reporter, the thoroughness of a rigorous scholar, and the sensitivity of a novelist.” —New Republic**When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730s held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Denis Diderot 'Rameau's Nephew' - 'Le Neveu de Rameau'

    A Multi-Media Bilingual Edition

    by Denis Diderot, Marian Hobson (Editor), Kate E. Tunstall (Translator), Caroline Warman (Translator), Pascal Duc (Music editor) ...
    Series Book 4 - Open Book Classics
    In a famous Parisian chess café, a down-and-out, HIM, accosts a former acquaintance, ME, who has made good, more or less. They talk about chess, about genius, about good and evil, about music, they gossip about the society in which they move, one of extreme inequality, of corruption, of envy, and about the circle of hangers-on in which the down-and-out abides. The down-and-out from time to time is ... Read more

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  • A Revolution of the Mind

    Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy

    by Jonathan Israel ...
    Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of peoples, sexual and racial equality--these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. But if these ideals no longer seem radical today, their origin was very radical indeed--far more so than most ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Incident at Antioch / L’Incident d’Antioche

    A Tragedy in Three Acts / Tragédie en trois actes

    by Alain Badiou ...
    Translated by Susan Spitzer ...
    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    The Incident at Antioch is a key play marking Alain Badiou's transition from classical Marxism to a "politics of subtraction" far removed from party and state. Written with striking eloquence and extraordinary poetic richness, and shifting from highly serious emotional and intellectual drama to surreal comic interlude, the work features statesmen, workers, and revolutionaries struggling to ... Read more

    $20.89 USD