Michel-Jean Sedaine: Théâtre de la Révolution

Author:   Senior Lecturer in French Mark Darlow (University of Cambridge)
Publisher:   Modern Humanities Research Association
Volume:   63
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Pages:   190
Publication Date:   29 September 2017
Format:   Paperback
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Au début de la Révolution, Michel-Jean Sedaine a 70 ans et a fait représenter une trentaine d'oeuvres de théâtre. On sait cependant peu de choses sur les dernières années de sa carrière, au cours desquelles le librettiste, membre de deux Académies, a également participé à la Société des auteurs dramatiques, mais a dû se défendre contre des accusations de modérantisme, voire de royalisme. Après une introduction qui replace sa carrière dans le contexte de la culture de la Révolution, ce recueil procure l'édition critique de deux livrets faits pour le compositeur André-Modeste Grétry: Raoul, Barbe-bleue (1789) et Guillaume Tell (1791, remanié sous la Terreur). Les mythes ainsi réactualisés (Barbe-bleue, dérivé de la Bibliothèque bleue; Guillaume Tell de l'histoire suisse) sont étudiés dans le contexte de la politique de l'époque, et les diverses sources sont confrontées pour étudier la genèse des oeuvres. Les enjeux éditoriaux que présente un recueil de livrets d'opéra-comique sont également étudiés. En outre le recueil tente, à partir de sources inédites ou peu connues, de reconstruire les autres projets fragmentaires entrepris par Sedaine au cours de cette période, jusqu'à sa mort en 1797, pour donner une vue d'ensemble de son théâtre pendant la Révolution.

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Author:   Senior Lecturer in French Mark Darlow (University of Cambridge)
Publisher:   Modern Humanities Research Association
Imprint:   Modern Humanities Research Association
Volume:   63
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.272kg
ISBN:  

9781781886052


ISBN 10:   1781886059
Pages:   190
Publication Date:   29 September 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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Language:   French

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The a tre de la Re volution is an impeccably researched edition of Michel-Jean Sedaine's last operatic works... Sedaine's The a tre de la Re volution will be required reading for scholars of eighteenth-century theatre and music. Thanks to Darlow's introduction, the work is also an essential contribution to scholarship on cultural production and policy during the Revolution... Overall, eighteenth-century French musical theatre, ignored by dix-huitie mistes for generations, has a champion in Mark Darlow and a welcome new title in his edition of Sedaine's last librettos. -- Logan Connors, H-France 18.95, April 2018 This is another admirable critical edition from Darlow which sheds new light on a playwright's transition from Ancien R gime to Revolution. - Clare Siviter, MLR, 114 (2019), 145.


"""Théâtre de la Révolution is an impeccably researched edition of Michel-Jean Sedaine's last operatic works... Sedaine's Théâtre de la Révolution will be required reading for scholars of eighteenth-century theatre and music. Thanks to Darlow's introduction, the work is also an essential contribution to scholarship on cultural production and policy during the Revolution... Overall, eighteenth-century French musical theatre, ignored by dix-huitièmistes for generations, has a champion in Mark Darlow and a welcome new title in his edition of Sedaine's last librettos."" -- Logan Connors, H-France 18.95, April 2018 ""This is another admirable critical edition from Darlow which sheds new light on a playwright's transition from Ancien Régime to Revolution."" - Clare Siviter, MLR, 114 (2019), 145."


The a tre de la Re volution is an impeccably researched edition of Michel-Jean Sedaine's last operatic works... Sedaine's The a tre de la Re volution will be required reading for scholars of eighteenth-century theatre and music. Thanks to Darlow's introduction, the work is also an essential contribution to scholarship on cultural production and policy during the Revolution... Overall, eighteenth-century French musical theatre, ignored by dix-huitie mistes for generations, has a champion in Mark Darlow and a welcome new title in his edition of Sedaine's last librettos. -- Logan Connors, H-France 18.95, April 2018 This is another admirable critical edition from Darlow which sheds new light on a playwright's transition from Ancien Regime to Revolution. - Clare Siviter, MLR, 114 (2019), 145.


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