Theatre, Opera, and Audiences in Revolutionary Paris: Analysis and Repertory

Emmet Kennedy

Feb 1996 · Greenwood Publishing Group

About this ebook

This comprehensive inventory is the result of a study of all performances of plays and operas announced in two Parisian newspapers during the decade of the French Revolution. The research conducted by a team of French and American historians tests the two-century-old assumption that Parisian theatre during the French Revolution was nothing more than a forum for political debate. This work will be an important resource for scholars of French theatre, opera, and literature, as well as for historians of the French Revolution.

About the author

EMMET KENNEDY is Professor of European History at the George Washington University./ee is author of A Cultural History of the French Revolution, A Philosophe in the Age of Revolution: Destutt de Tracy and the Origins of 'Ideology', and coeditor of The Shaping of Modern France: Writings on French History Since 1715. MARIE-LAURENCE NETTER is researcher at the Centre de Recherches Historiques, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. In addition to numerous articles on education, theatre, and the French Revolution, she is author of La Révolution francaise n'est pas terminée. JAMES P. McGREGOR is senior policy officer at the Office of Policy, United States Information Agency. He is author of numerous articles on Eastern Europe, Slavic studies, and political science. MARK V. OLSEN is assistant director of the ARTFL Project at the University of Chicago. He is author of numerous articles on French history and computer science.