First performed the day after Marie-Antoinette’s beheading, Le Jugement dernier des rois stages the burlesque trial of the remaining kings and queens of Europe-paraded in chains like animals, made to brawl over a barrel of crackers, and finally obliterated by a spectacular volcanic eruption. Such is the shocking context-at once tragic and farcical-of the most infamous play of the French Revolution, familiar to all specialists of the period. Until now, however, no standalone critical edition or English translation of this historic play existed. This bilingual edition revives Marechal’s play and reveals its centrality to scholarly debates about Revolutionary notions of justice, religion, commemoration, comedy, and propaganda. Provocative, written in accessible prose, and short-perfect for students in a French or history seminar-Le Jugement dernier des rois offers an ideal introduction to the most important and contentious questions of the Revolutionary period.Joue pour la premiere fois le lendemain de l execution de Marie-Antoinette, Le Jugement dernier des rois met en scene le proces burlesque des autres rois et reines d Europe : exhibes et enchaines tels des animaux, contraints de se battre pour un tonneau de biscuits, et finalement aneantis par l eruption spectaculaire d un volcan. Tel est le contexte scandaleux tragedie et farce a la fois de la piece la plus celebre de la Revolution francaise, bien connue de tous les specialistes de cette periode. Jusqu a maintenant, pourtant, il n existait ni edition critique ni traduction anglaise de cet ouvrage historique. Notre edition bilingue fait revivre la piece de Marechal et la replace au centre des plus grands debats chez les historiens de la Revolution, traitant de justice, religion, commemoration, comedie, et propagande. Provocateur, facile a lire, et concis parfaitement adapte aux etudiants d un cours de francais ou d histoire Le Jugement dernier des rois propose ainsi une introduction ideale a la periode revolutionnaire et a ses principales controverses.Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
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