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Tragedy walks the streets : the French Revolution in the making of modern drama / Matthew S. Buckley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buckley, Matthew S., 1965-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- European drama--18th century--History and criticism.
- European drama.
- European drama--19th century--History and criticism.
- France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Literature and the revolution.
- France.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (204 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Surveying this expanded field of inquiry, Buckley weaves together a coherent formal genealogy of the drama during this period and offers a new, more continuous generic history of modern drama in its first and most turbulent phase of development.
- Contents:
- The theatre of the Revolution
- The drama of the Revolution
- The Revolution and British theatrical politics
- The fall of Robespierre (1794) and the tragic imagination
- Strategies of embodiment: Dantons Tod (1835).
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-183) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-9239-2
- 1-4356-9187-3
- OCLC:
- 646769589
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