Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
A New History of Theatre in France, Hardback Book

A New History of Theatre in France Hardback

Edited by Clare (Goldsmiths, University of London) Finburgh Delijani

Hardback

Pre-Order

Description

Theatre in France was the first in Europe to be written in the vernacular as opposed to Latin.

It has provided the English language with the medieval word farce, the early-modern word role, and the modern term mise en scène.

Molière is single-handedly responsible for launching European-style playwriting in North Africa.

Today, it is only a slight exaggeration to say that it's harder to get tickets for the Festival d'Avignon, one of the world's largest theatre festivals, than for the Rolling Stones' farewell tour.

Containing chapters by globally eminent theatre experts, many of whom will be read in English for the first time, this collaborative history testifies to the central part theatre has played for over a thousand years in both French culture and world culture.

Crucially, too, it places centre-stage the genders, ethnicities and classes that have had to wait in the wings of theatres, and of theatre criticism.

Information

£95.00

Pre-Order
Pre-Order
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information