Prosper Mérimée, La Jacquerie: scènes féodales, suivies de La Famille de Carvajal, drame [The Jacquerie, feudal scenes, followed by The Carvajal Family, drama]

Peter Cogman (University of Southampton)

Ed. by David Williams, University of Sheffield
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.05: French Writing and Culture: The Nineteenth-Century , 1800-1900.
Vol. editors: Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Nigel Harkness (University of Newcastle upon Tyne), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield), Jennifer Yee (University of Oxford)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1828

Places

France (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Play

Resources

The short-lived enthusiasm in France for scènes historiques – prose dramas on historical events, designed to be read – which lasted roughly from Ludovic Vitet's Les Barricades of 1826 to Musset's Lorenzaccio of 1834, sprang from a combination of factors: the publication of memoirs, notably of the sixteenth century; the renewal of historiography by historians such as Prosper de Barante and Augustin Thierry; the revelation of the literary potential of the national past through the translation of Sir Walter Scott's historical novels; and the desire to break free from the constraints of French Classical theatre. Shakespeare's history plays and Goethe's Götz von Berlichingen provided a model for the direct …

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Citation: Cogman, Peter. "La Jacquerie: scènes féodales, suivies de La Famille de Carvajal, drame". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 27 November 2003 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=12330, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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