Stage Door by Edna Ferber
Louis I de Bourbon (1621-86), known as Le Grand Conde, stood alongside Richelieu and Mazarin as one of the key figures who shaped the reign of Louis XIV In response to profound upheavals in their world, his contemporaries looked to him to satisfy their need for a hero. Originally the warrior-hero par excellence, Conde was redefined by sucessive generations as the ideal subject of the absolutist state, as the epitome of civilized behaviour, and finally, as the exemplar of the triumph of faith over reason. In this first detailed study in English of Le Grand Conde's significance for his contemporaries, Mark Bannister reveals the complexity of the ideological patterns forming and reforming in seventeenth-century France, and the perennial need to believe in the existence of an iconic figure, incarnating new values as they emerge.
George Simon Kaufman (1889-1961) was an award-winning playwright, theatre director and producer, humorist, and drama critic. Laurence Maslon, editor, is an associate arts professor at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and a former associate artistic director at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. He was senior consultant and co-writer for two episodes of the six-part PBS series Broadway: The American Musical, as well as coauthoring, with Michael Kantor, the companion volume for the documentary.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780822210696 |
| ISBN 10 | 082221069X |
| Title | Stage Door |
| Author | Edna Ferber |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Josef Weinberger Plays |
| Year published | 2002-03-15 |
| Number of pages | 106 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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