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Revolutionary acts : theater, democracy, and the French revolution

Susan Maslan demonstrates how theatre played a pivotal role in revolutionary France, positioning the theatrical stage as a battleground on which the people of Paris and the government fought for municipal control
Print Book, English, ©2005
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, ©2005
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780801881251, 0801881250
56905101
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