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This is the first study of French theater and war at a time of global revolutions, colonial violence, and radical social transformation. Analyzing France and its largest Caribbean colony (Saint-Domingue), and spanning the Old Regime and Revolution, Logan Connors presents an ambitious, richly interdisciplinary argument, grounded in theater and performance studies, literary analysis of drama, and cultural, military, and gender history. Demonstrating how war and soldiering catalyzed new drama types and fostered theater's expansion into France's geographical and social peripheries, the study also shows how theater emerged as a dynamic space in which military practices could be re-imagined. This major scholarly intervention provides unparalleled insight into theater's engagement with international and domestic war efforts during a transformational period in global history.
Contents
List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction: performance, revolution, and the military-theatrical complex; 1. From tragédie nationale to pièce militaire: Pierre-Laurent de Belloy's Le Siège de Calais; 2. Military masculinities, dramaturgical manipulation, and the desertion play; 3. Performing on the periphery: Military-theatrical experiences at the Théâtre de la Marine (Brest) and the Comédie du Cap (Cap-Français); 4. Total theater for total war: military dramas and performances of the French revolution; 5. Femmes soldats and militarized domesticity: women at war in French revolutionary theater; Conclusion: the military-theatrical complex of revolutionary Saint-Domingue; Bibliography; Index.



