Pierrots on the Stage of Desire : : Nineteenth-Century French Literary Artists and the Comic Pantomime / / Robert F. Storey.

This book, a companion to the author's Pierrot: A Critical History of a Mask (Princeton, 1978), provides a detailed history of nineteenth-century French pantomime, from the feeries of Jean-Gaspard Deburau at the Theatre des Funambules to the cabaret entertainments of Georges Wague at the height...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1985
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 20
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Physical Description:1 online resource (410 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • I. Deburau
  • II. Paul Legrand, Champfleury, and Pantomime after Deburau
  • III. In Pursuit of Colombine: Charles Nodier and Charles Baudelaire
  • IV. Pierrot posthume: Théophile Gautier
  • V. Pierrot narcissique: Théodore de Banville
  • VI. Pierrot emmerdant: Gustave Flaubert
  • VII. Pierrot glacé: Edmond de Goncourt
  • VIII. Pierrot oedipien: J.-Κ. Huysmans
  • IX. Pierrot pubère: Paul Verlaine
  • X. Pierrot Vanishes: Paul Margueritte and Stéphane Mallarmé
  • XI. Epilogue: Eclipse
  • Handlist of Pantomime Scenarios
  • Index