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The theater of law :Performing justice in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French drama (Moliere, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The theater of law :
Reminder of title:	Performing justice in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French drama (Moliere, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais).
Author:	Pruvost, Valerie Celine Agnes.
Description:	151 p.
Notes:	Director: Carol Sherman.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-03, Section: A, page: 0965.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-03A.
Subject:	Literature, Romance.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3047057
ISBN:	0493610308

The theater of law :Performing justice in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French drama (Moliere, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais).
Pruvost, Valerie Celine Agnes.

The theater of law :Performing justice in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French drama (Moliere, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais). [electronic resource] - 151 p.

Director: Carol Sherman.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002.

In this dissertation I propose that law and theater are intimately connected, and I offer evidence from several French plays of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In reading plays such as <italic>Le Cid</italic>, <italic> Les Plaideurs</italic>, <italic>Le Tartuffe</italic>, and <italic>Le Mariage de Figaro</italic>, one may observe a criticism of the legal system. Characters' actions, speeches and even costumes can serve to represent, mock or reinforce the representation of the law on the stage. It is through the trial's visual form and theatrical qualities that the playwrights express their opinions on justice, politics and power. They provide commentary on the law and its impact on society as well as an opportunity for the audience to identify with the characters' struggles. The trial is easily represented on stage because it unfolds as drama. Though the interpretations of Law can vary, the trial process follows a preset order with a given set of rules and policies that require strict adherence; the same can be said about theater. For this reason the legal system was commonly portrayed in the past and remains a popular theme within the realms of literature and of visual entertainment today.

ISBN: 0493610308Subjects--Topical Terms:

212836
Literature, Romance.

The theater of law :Performing justice in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French drama (Moliere, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais).
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