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The Rise of Revolutionary Sentiment in France and Its Impact on the Theater

Theater and Public Opinion.

The sensation that Beaumarchais caused with his Marriage of Figaro was hardly the first or the last time the Parisian theater was to be the center of controversy. Yet his work was ultimately tolerated and performed in the Comédie-Française, the very heart of the theatrical establishment in France, which had been licensed and lavishly supported by the crown for more than a century at the time of Figaro's performance. During the high tide of the Enlightenment the Comédie-Française had frequently fulfilled a dual role......

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