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Dramatic Justice - Trial by Theater in the Age of the French Revolution (Hardcover)
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Dramatic Justice - Trial by Theater in the Age of the French Revolution (Hardcover)
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For most of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, classical
dogma and royal censorship worked together to prevent French plays
from commenting on, or even worse, reenacting current political and
judicial affairs. Criminal trials, meanwhile, were designed to be
as untheatrical as possible, excluding from the courtroom live
debates, trained orators, and spectators. According to Yann Robert,
circumstances changed between 1750 and 1800 as parallel evolutions
in theater and justice brought them closer together, causing
lasting transformations in both. Robert contends that the gradual
merging of theatrical and legal modes in eighteenth-century France
has been largely overlooked because it challenges two widely
accepted narratives: first, that French theater drifted toward
entertainment and illusionism during this period and, second, that
the French justice system abandoned any performative foundation it
previously had in favor of a textual one. In Dramatic Justice, he
demonstrates that the inverse of each was true. Robert traces the
rise of a "judicial theater" in which plays denounced criminals by
name, even forcing them, in some cases, to perform their
transgressions anew before a jeering public. Likewise, he shows how
legal reformers intentionally modeled trial proceedings on dramatic
representations and went so far as to recommend that judges mimic
the sentimental judgment of spectators and that lawyers seek
private lessons from actors. This conflation of theatrical and
legal performances provoked debates and anxieties in the eighteenth
century that, according to Robert, continue to resonate with
present concerns over lawsuit culture and judicial entertainment.
Dramatic Justice offers an alternate history of French theater and
judicial practice, one that advances new explanations for several
pivotal moments in the French Revolution, including the trial of
Louis XVI and the Terror, by showing the extent to which they were
shaped by the period's conflicted relationship to theatrical
justice.
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