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The Contested Parterre

Public Theater and French Political Culture, 1680–1791
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In the playhouses of 18th-century France, clerks and students, soldiers and merchants, and the occasional aristocrat stood in the pit, while the majority of the elite sat in loges. These denizens of the parterre, who accounted for up to two-thirds of the audience, were given to disruptive behaviour that culminated in full-scale riots in the last years before the Revolution. Offering a commoner's-eye-view of the drama offstage, this history of French theatre audiences demonstrates how problems in the parterre reflected tensions at the heart of the Old Regime. Jeffrey S. Ravel depicts the scene in the parterre where the male spectators occupied themselves shoving one another, drinking, urinating and confronting the actors with critiques of the performance. He traces the futile efforts of the Bourbon Court - and later its Enlightened opponents - to control parterre behaviour by both persuasion and force. Ravel describes how the parterre came to represent a larger, more politicized notion of the public, one that exposed the inability of the government to accommodate the demands of French citizens.

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Jeffrey S. Ravel is Associate Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Release date Australia
June 15th, 1999
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  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Undergraduate
Pages
272
Dimensions
152x229x25
ISBN-13
9780801435447
Product ID
12683345

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