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The Contested Parterre - Public Theater and French Political Culture, 1680-1791 (Paperback)
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The Contested Parterre - Public Theater and French Political Culture, 1680-1791 (Paperback)
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In the playhouses of eighteenth-century France, clerks and
students, soldiers and merchants, and the occasional aristocrat
stood in the pit, while the majority of the elite sat in loges.
These denizens of the parterre, who accounted for up to two-thirds
of the audience, were given to disruptive behavior that culminated
in full-scale riots in the last years before the Revolution.
Offering a commoner's eye view of the drama offstage, this
fascinating history of French theater audiences clearly
demonstrates how problems in the parterre reflected tensions at the
heart of the Old Regime.Jeffrey S. Ravel vividly depicts the scene
in the parterre where the male spectators occupied themselves
shoving one another, drinking, urinating, and confronting the
actors with critiques of the performance. He traces the futile
efforts of the Bourbon Court and later its Enlightened opponents to
control parterre behavior by both persuasion and force. Ravel
describes how the parterre came to represent a larger, more
politicized notion of the public, one that exposed the inability of
the government to accommodate the demands of French citizens. An
important contribution to debates on the public sphere, Ravel's
book is the first to explore the role of the parterre in the
political culture of eighteenth-century France."
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