Popular Theatres of Nineteenth Century France

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Autorentext
John McCormick

Klappentext
Provides an account of how popular theatre developed in France from the fairground booths of the 18th century to become a vehicle of mass entertainment in the following century. This text focuses on the social and economic context in which vaudevilles, pantomimes and melodramas were performed.

Zusammenfassung
Provides an account of how popular theatre developed from the fairground booths of the eighteenth century to become a vehicle of mass entertainment in the following century.

Inhalt
List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Part I 1. Les theatres secondaires 2. Equestrians and acrobats 3. Away from the centre - the suburbs and the provinces 4. 'Forains' and fit-ups 5. audiences 6. Economics and economic problems 7. Censorship Part II 8. The vaudeville 9. Pantomime 10. The Feerie 11. The early melodrama 12. The social melodrama 13. Popular fiction and the theatre Conclusion Notes Index

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