Le Theatre de Louis Lemercier entre Lumieres et romantisme

by Vincenzo De Santis

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Extent: 728 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Music & Performing Arts

Series: L'Europe des Lumieres

Series volume number: 35

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(June 2015)

ISBN: 9782812433122

Price: $83.00

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Followed by editions of Agamemnon and Pinto, this work is dedicated to Nepomucene Lemercier, a fascinating but little-known playwright who worked from the Revolution to the July Monarchy and whose hybrid aesthetics and political dissidence exemplifies the complexity of the transition from Enlightenment to Romanticism.


Followed by editions of Agamemnon and Pinto, this work is dedicated to Nepomucene Lemercier, a fascinating but little-known playwright who worked from the Revolution to the July Monarchy and whose hybrid aesthetics and political dissidence exemplifies the complexity of the transition from Enlightenment to Romanticism.

  • By (author) Vincenzo De Santis

Review - French Dramaturge actif de la Revolution a la monarchie de Juillet, academicien erudit et adversaire de Victor Hugo, Nepomucene Louis Lemercier est l'inventeur du genre de la comedie historique, protoforme du drame romantique. Connu pour ses succes de scandale, sa posture rebelle le rend l'ennemi des regimes politiques et une victime privilegiee de la censure. Son esthetique metissee et sa dissidence politique sont bien revelatrices d'une ambiguite caracterisant l'ensemble de la periode de transition entre Lumieres et romantisme. L'analyse de l'oeuvre theatrale de Lemercier et du contexte de sa reception est suivie de l'edition critique de deux pieces,AgamemnonetPinto, qui temoignent de son double penchant classique et romantique.
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