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Censorship and the Double Portrait of Disorder in Lemercier's La Démence de Charles VI
Author(s) -
Cooper Barbara T.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
orbis litterarum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.109
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1600-0730
pISSN - 0105-7510
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0730.1985.tb00840.x
Subject(s) - portrait , tragedy (event) , drama , criticism , subject (documents) , censorship , art , politics , art history , humanities , literature , psychoanalysis , philosophy , psychology , law , theology , political science , library science , computer science
This study uses recently discovered and previously unpublished censors' reports in an attempt to determine why Lemercier's tragedy, scheduled to premiere at the Théâtre de l'Odéon on 25 September 1820, was never allowed to be staged. An examination of the reports, of the text of La Démence de Charles VI , and of the fate of a contemporary piece on the same subject leads to a clearer understanding of the role of politics in the production and criticism of drama in France in the 1820s.