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03824aam a2200397 i 4500 001 470E8B94462211E9A3F20F6897128E48 003 SILO 005 20190314012734 008 180419t20192019paua b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2018018632 020 $a 0812250753 020 $a 9780812250756 035 $a (OCoLC)1035218190 040 $a PU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d OCLCF $d DGU $d WLU $d WCM $d MBB $d MNU $d NDD $d GXR $d OBE $d YUS $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-fr--- 050 00 $a PN2633 $b .R63 2019 100 1 $a Robert, Yann, $d 1983- $e author. 245 10 $a Dramatic justice : $b trial by theater in the age of the French Revolution / $c Yann Robert. 264 1 $a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : $b University of Pennsylvania Press, $c [2019] 300 $a viii, 331 pages : $b 1 illustration ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-314) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- Part I. Theater as justice. Fixing the law : reenactment in Diderot's Fils naturel -- The many faces of Aristophanes : the rise of a judicial theater -- Part II. Justice as theater. Players at the bar : the birth of the modern lawyer -- Judges, spectators, and theatrocracy -- From Parterre to Pater : dreaming of domestic tribunals -- Part III. The revolution's performance of justice. Performing justice in the early years of the Revolution -- The curtain falls on judicial theater and theatrical justice. 520 $a "For most of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, classical dogma and royal censorship worked together to prevent French plays from commenting on, or even worse, reenacting current political and judicial affairs. Criminal trials, meanwhile, were designed to be as untheatrical as possible, excluding from the courtroom live debates, trained orators, and spectators. According to Yann Robert, circumstances changed between 1750 and 1800 as parallel evolutions in theater and justice brought them closer together, causing lasting transformations in both. Robert contends that the gradual merging of theatrical and legal modes in eighteenth-century France has been largely overlooked because it challenges two widely accepted narratives: first, that French theater drifted toward entertainment and illusionism during this period and, second, that the French justice system abandoned any performative foundation it previously had in favor of a textual one. In Dramatic Justice, he demonstrates that the inverse of each was true. Robert traces the rise of a "judicial theater" in which plays denounced criminals by name, even forcing them, in some cases, to perform their transgressions anew before a jeering public. Likewise, he shows how legal reformers intentionally modeled trial proceedings on dramatic representations and went so far as to recommend that judges mimic the sentimental judgment of spectators and that lawyers seek private lessons from actors. This conflation of theatrical and legal performances provoked debates and anxieties in the eighteenth century that, according to Robert, continue to resonate with present concerns over lawsuit culture and judicial entertainment."--Dust jacket. 611 27 $a Revolution (France : 1789-1799) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01354514 650 0 $a Theater $x History $z France $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Justice, Administration of $z France $x History $y 18th century. 651 0 $a France $x History $y Revolution, 1789-1799. 650 7 $a Justice, Administration of. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00985154 650 7 $a Theater $x Political aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01149276 651 7 $a France. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204289 648 7 $a 1700-1799 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191211022616.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=470E8B94462211E9A3F20F6897128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search