The Contested Parterre : : Public Theater and French Political Culture, 1680–1791 / / Jeffrey S. Ravel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Ravel, Jeffrey S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 1 chart, 1 map, 1 table, 11 halftones

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 beha...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Introduction: Political Culture, Print, and Performance
• 1. Parterre Practices in Eighteenth-Century Paris
• 2. Origins of the Contested Parterre, 1630-80
• 3. "The Parterre Becomes an A~tor," 1680-1725
• 4. Policing the Parisian Parterre, 169/-1/51
• 5. Policing the Parterre in Paris and the Provinces, 1751-89
• 6. The Parterre and French National Identity in the Eighteenth Century
• Afterword
• Appendix: List of Spectators in Paris Parterres by Social Category and Theater, 1717-68
• Bibliography
• Index