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Histoire de l'art dramatique en France depuis vingt-cinq ans (5e Serie)

Histoire de l'art dramatique en France depuis vingt-cinq ans (5e Serie)

Gautier, Théophile

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Literary CriticismFrench HistoryPlays

ISBN10: 9353800226
ISBN13: 9789353800222
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jul 1 2019
Pages: 330
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.74 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Step into the gaslit auditorium of nineteenth century France, where reputations rose or fell on a single night. Paris takes the spotlight here. In Histoire de l'art dramatique en France depuis vingt-cinq ans (5e Serie), Theophile Gautier gathers theatre criticism essays with the immediacy of reportage and the polish of a major stylist. This literary journalism collection ranges across french stage reviews, tracing how taste shifts, genres collide, and new voices press against tradition. Expect sharp performance and repertoire analysis: what worked on the boards, why certain plays endured, and how audiences, managers, and actors shaped the season. Along the way Gautier offers vivid playwright and actor portraits, a critics eye for gesture and diction, and a sense of Paris theatre culture as lived experience rather than abstract history. More than a period curiosity, these pages are a dramatic arts history in motion, essential to french romanticism criticism and to Moliere theatre studies alike, showing how the canon was argued over in real time. Gautier writes as poet and eyewitness, balancing generosity with bite, and turning nightly judgement into lasting testimony for anyone curious about acting, staging, and theatre-making. For readers who love the theatre, it is absorbing criticism; for scholars and collectors, a theatre studies reference and a public domain classic edition with enduring authority. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.

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