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The comedians of the king : opéra comique and the Bourbon monarchy on the eve of revolution
- Title
- The comedians of the king : opéra comique and the Bourbon monarchy on the eve of revolution / Julia Doe.
- Author
- Doe, Julia
- Publication
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.
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- Description
- 314 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
- Summary
- "In The Comedians of the King, Julia Doe traces the impact of Bourbon patronage on the development of French lyric comedy. The book presents the history of an understudied genre and the institutional structures that supported it, determining how changes in royal sponsorship, especially under Marie Antoinette, contributed to the genre's rapid evolution. The stylistic shift, coming at a time of tremendous cultural change, had sizeable political implications. Drawing on both musical and archival evidence, Doe demonstrates how comic theater was exploited in (and worked against) the construction of the monarchy's carefully cultivated public image. In essence, this book examines the aesthetic, institutional, and political tensions that arose when a genre with popular roots was folded into the Bourbon propaganda machine-and when actors trained at the Paris fairs became official representatives of the sovereign, or comédiens ordinaires du roi"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-303) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction. Institutional history ; Dialogue opera and the cosmopolitan "revolution" ; The politics of genre -- Opéra comique and the legacy of Colbert. Comic theater and the Querelle des Bouffons ; Theater and the nation ; La Nouvelle Troupe ; New rivalries -- Character, class, and style in the lyric Drame. Bienséance in ancien régime opera ; Opéra comique and the Drame ; Romance and Refinement; Recitative for the Peuple ; Lyric Drame at the Opéra -- The musical revolutions of Marie Antoinette. The musical patronage of a Habsburg Queen ; Tragédie Lyrique and its parodies ; Italian opera at the French court ; Despotism and privilège -- The decadence of the pastoral. Pastoral living at the Petit Trianon ; "Private" pastorals : The Troupe des Seigneurs ; Ceremonial pastorals for court and capital ; The pastoral as adaptation : C. S. Favart's Ninette à la cour -- "Heroic" comedy on the eve of 1789. Opera and revolution at the Salle Favart ; The development of "Heroic" Comedy ; The "Heroic" Sargines ; Continuity and rupture -- Epilogue. the foundation of a "People's" art ; Richard Coeur de Lion : the first fifty years ; Richard Coeur de Lion : the first hundred years -- Conclusions. Richard Coeur de Lion and the revolutionary centennial.
- Call Number
- JME 21-309
- ISBN
- 9780226743257
- 022674325X
- LCCN
- 2020032134
- OCLC
- 1192303871
- Author
- Doe, Julia, author.
- Title
- The comedians of the king : opéra comique and the Bourbon monarchy on the eve of revolution / Julia Doe.
- Publisher
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-303) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1700-1799
- Research Call Number
- JME 21-309