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Literary Sociability and Literary Property in France, 1775-1793 - Beaumarchais, the Societe des Auteurs Dramatiques and the Comedie Francaise (Paperback)
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Literary Sociability and Literary Property in France, 1775-1793 - Beaumarchais, the Societe des Auteurs Dramatiques and the Comedie Francaise (Paperback)
Series: Studies in European Cultural Transition
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The first full-length, scholarly study of the Societe des auteurs
dramatiques (SAD), this book describes the form, the meaning, the
achievements, and the failures of the first professional
association for creative writers in European history. Founded by
the well-known playwright Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais in
1777 under the protection of prominent aristocrats at the court of
King Louis XVI, the SAD comprised the playwrights most closely
associated with the royal theater of the kingdom, the Comedie
FranAaise. Its two dozen members discussed and worked to advance
both their collective interests under the royal theater regulations
(which governed such issues of literary property, creative control,
and remuneration) and to promote their public image as playwrights
and men of letters more broadly - while at the same time competing
with each other, sometimes intensely, for control over that image.
Gregory Brown traces the story of the SAD from its conception in
the mid-1770s through to the French Revolution, exploring first the
Society's founding in 1777, then its trajectory until its
dissolution at the end of 1780, and finally discusses a revival of
the group during the Revolution. In each chapter, Brown analyzes
the strategic efforts of Beaumarchais and his associates, to shape
regulations and legislation concerning droits d'auteur (authorial
remuneration and literary property) and their efforts to reshape
the public status and identity of playwrights through
correspondence, print and face-to-face encounters with the troupe
of the Comedie FranAaise, the theater's aristocratic supervisors at
court, its lawyers and government administrators, its commercial
publics, and other, authors. Brown argues against previous
treatments of the SAD, which have presented it as a spontaneous,
dissident challenge to constituted social and political authority
under the Old Regime. He demonstrates instead how the SAD emerged
from within existing lines of authority in e
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