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Mapping Theatrical Paris
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This chapter begins a recontextualization of Goldoni’s Comédie-Italienne career with a panoramic view, analysing the position of the Italian theatre in the contemporary Parisian theatrical field. Original archive work provides the most comprehensive existing account of the theatre’s audiences and finances across the 1760s, and this account is compared to existing work on the Comédie-Française and the Opéra to create a clearer picture of the symbolic and commercial hierarchies within which the various Parisian theatres operated. In particular, the chapter explores the tension between symbolic and commercial status in the theatres of the period, and reveals that in contrast to the long-standing assumption that the Comédie-Italienne was less successful than the Comédie-Française, the Italian theatre was on a par with its rival.
Title: Mapping Theatrical Paris
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This chapter begins a recontextualization of Goldoni’s Comédie-Italienne career with a panoramic view, analysing the position of the Italian theatre in the contemporary Parisian theatrical field.
Original archive work provides the most comprehensive existing account of the theatre’s audiences and finances across the 1760s, and this account is compared to existing work on the Comédie-Française and the Opéra to create a clearer picture of the symbolic and commercial hierarchies within which the various Parisian theatres operated.
In particular, the chapter explores the tension between symbolic and commercial status in the theatres of the period, and reveals that in contrast to the long-standing assumption that the Comédie-Italienne was less successful than the Comédie-Française, the Italian theatre was on a par with its rival.
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