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- Title
Staging Rousseau's Republic: French Revolutionary Festivals and Olympe de Gouges.
- Authors
Nielsen, Wendy C.
- Abstract
Comments on the issues related to the theatricality and performance in the plays written by Olympe De Gouges and "Letter to M. d'Alembert on Theatre" written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in France. Contribution of the play to the institution of Revolutionary festivals; Influence of Rousseau on the models of performance and gender in the late eighteenth century; Assistance extended by De Gouges to the organization and staging of the Festival of the Law; Significance on the theories of Rousseau on theater, theatricality, performance, and civic identity.
- Subjects
FRANCE; THEATER; DRAMA; ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778; DE Gouges, Olympe, 1748-1793; DRAMA festivals; FESTIVALS
- Publication
Eighteenth Century: Theory & Interpretation, 2002, Vol 43, Issue 3, p268
- ISSN
0193-5380
- Publication type
Literary Criticism