Dramatic Justice : : Trial by Theater in the Age of the French Revolution / / Yann Robert.
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, exclud...
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| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- PART I. Theater as Justice
- Chapter 1. Fixing the Law: Reenactment in Diderot’s Fils naturel
- Chapter 2. The Many Faces of Aristophanes: The Rise of a Judicial Theater
- PART II. Justice as Theater
- Chapter 3. Players at the Bar: The Birth of the Modern Lawyer
- Chapter 4. Judges, Spectators, and Theatrocracy
- Chapter 5. From Parterre to Pater: Dreaming of Domestic Tribunals
- PART III. The Revolution’s Performance of Justice
- Chapter 6. Performing Justice in the Early Years of the Revolution
- Chapter 7. The Curtain Falls on Judicial Theater and Theatrical Justice
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments