Political Actors: Representative Bodies and Theatricality in the Age of the French Revolution. Paul Friedland

Political Actors: Representative Bodies and Theatricality in the Age of the French Revolution



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Political Actors: Representative Bodies and Theatricality in the Age of the French Revolution Paul Friedland ebook
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Page: 368
ISBN: 9780801488092

From the start of the French Revolution, contemporary observers were struck by the overwhelming theatricality of political events. Examples of convergence between theater and politics included the election of dramatic actors to powerful political and military positions and reports that deputies to the National Assembly were taking acting lessons and planting paid "claqueurs" in the audience to applaud their employers on demand. Meanwhile, in a mock national assembly that gathered in an enormous circus pavilion in the center of Paris, spectators paid for the privilege of acting the role of political representatives for a day. Paul Friedland argues ...

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