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Rousseau on Stage: Playwright, Musician, Spectator 2017 (Paperback)
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Rousseau on Stage: Playwright, Musician, Spectator 2017 (Paperback)
Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2017:09
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Following his opposition to the establishment of a theatre in
Geneva, Jean-Jacques Rousseau is often considered an enemy of the
stage. Yet he was fascinated by drama: he was a keen theatre-goer,
his earliest writings were operas and comedies, his admiration for
Italian lyric theatre ran through his career, he wrote one of the
most successful operas of the day, Le Devin du village, and with
his Pygmalion, he invented a new theatrical genre, the Scene
lyrique ('melodrama'). Through multi-faceted analyses of Rousseau's
theatrical and musical works, authors re-evaluate his practical and
theoretical involvement with and influence on the dramatic arts, as
well as his presence in modern theatre histories. New readings of
the Lettre a d'Alembert highlight its political underpinnings,
positioning it as an act of resistance to external bourgeois
domination of Geneva's cultural sphere, and demonstrate the work's
influence on theatrical reform after Rousseau's death. Fresh
analyses of his theory of voice, developed in the Essai sur
l'origine des langues, highlight the unique prestige of Italian
opera for Rousseau. His ambition to rethink the nature and function
of stage works, seen in Le Devin du village and then, more
radically, in Pygmalion, give rise to several different discussions
in the volume, as do his complex relations with Gluck. Together,
contributors shed new light on the writer's relationship to the
stage, and argue for a more nuanced approach to his theatrical and
operatic works, theories and legacy.
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