| Description |
1 online resource (291 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies |
|
Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies.
|
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and references -- Introduction -- Deburau and his theatre -- Deburau, other theatres, other actors -- The sources -- Terminology -- 1 Pierrots before Deburau: The history of Pierroterie -- The first Pierrot: Giuseppe Giaratone -- At the Parisian foire theatres: Belloni and Hamoche -- A medley of Pierrots -- Chiarini at the Théâtre des Funambules -- Deburau -- Conclusion -- 2 The images of Deburau: Portrait of the saltimbanque as an artist -- What's in a name? |
|
The first images -- Deburau at the balustrade -- Janin's Deburau. Histoire du théâtre à quatre sous -- Deburau: clown, acrobat or Pierrot? -- Mute mime -- Whiteness -- Greatness -- Comedy -- Deburau the murderer? -- A working-class artist? -- Pierrot-Watteau? -- Conclusion -- 3 Staging and mime at the Théâtre des Funambules -- La Chatte amoureuse -- The appeal of the physical stage -- The appeal of mime -- The needs of 'mise en scène' -- Conclusion -- 4 Laughing at or with colonialism? -- Conquest colonialism -- Slavery -- The noble savage -- Interspecies comparisons -- Conclusion |
|
5 Deburau in the literature of his lifetime -- Théophile Gautier -- Bertrand's Gaspard de la nuit -- Balzac's metaphors and mute scenes -- Balzac's Théorie de la démarche -- Social realism and political engagement -- Conclusion -- 6 Deburau's legacy -- The response to Deburau's death -- Champfleury's Realist pantomimes -- Political pantomime -- Children's literature -- The poet-Pierrot -- Gautier, Banville and Baudelaire -- Fin-de-siècle prose and theatre -- Fin-de-siècle poetry -- Les Enfants du paradis -- Marcel Marceau -- Conclusion -- Select bibliography |
|
Pantomimes performed at the Théâtre des Funambules -- Other primary literature -- Secondary literature -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Deburau, Jean Gaspard, 1796-1846.
|
|
Deburau, Jean Gaspard, 1796-1846 |
|
Pantomimes.
|
|
Romanticism -- France
|
|
Pantomimes
|
|
Romanticism
|
|
France
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| ISBN |
9780429651663 |
|
042965166X |
|
