Theaters of Error Problems of Performance in German and French Enlightenment Theater /

• Main Author: LaFountain, Pascale (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
• Subjects: Theater-History.; Performing arts.; Theater.; Literature, Modern-18th century.; Theatre History.; Performing Arts.; National/Regional Theatre and Performance.; Eighteenth-Century Literature.

This book offers provocative readings of canonical Enlightenment dramas that reflect and shape the period's changing understanding of error. With striking interdisciplinary connections to theater treatises as well as works from the philosophical, legal, and medical discourses, it tracks the rel...