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Pierrots on the Stage of Desire: Nineteenth-Century French Literary Artists and the Comic Pantomime
By (Author) Robert F. Storey
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
History
792.30944
Paperback
410
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
567g
This book, a companion to the author's Pierrot: A Critical History of a Mask (Princeton, 1978), provides a detailed history of nineteenth-century French pantomime, from the feeries of Jean-Gaspard Deburau at the Theatre des Funambules to the cabaret entertainments of Georges Wague at the height of la Belle Epoque. Originally published in 1985. Th