L’Ennui du spectateur

Thermique du theatre (1716-1788)

by Charline Granger

Book cover: L’Ennui du spectateur

Extent: 947 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Eighteenth-Century Studies, Music & Performing Arts

Series: Etudes sur le theatre et les arts de la scene

Series volume number: 20

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(October 2021)

ISBN: 9782406119166

Price: $75.00

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Hardback (Published)

(October 2021)

ISBN: 9782406119173

Price: $124.00

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Would a theatregoer have gotten bored in the eighteenth century? Our grasp of text, performance, and audience is reinvigorated by a thermics of the theater, based on a lexicon of hot and cold then in vogue to describe an audience’s reaction, and adapted from the scientific theories of the time.

  • By (author) Charline Granger