Tableaux Vivants: Presenting the Past on the French Restoration Stage

Provides a scholarly discussion of the tension between representations of the past and present in the theater of the French Restoration. Considers how the prevailing spirit of the culture was that of a generation who viewed themselves as "violently and irrevocable severed from their political and social past in a way that no generation before them could have been." Offers analysis of several reviews of Restoration plays in order to show the attitudes towards the presentation of historical facts on the French stage.