Charnow, Sally Debra: Theatre, Politics, and Modernity in Fin-de-Siecle Paris: Staging Modernity.(Book review)

History: Review of New Books, January, 2006 by Arnold, Eric A., Jr.

Charnow, Sally Debra Theatre, Politics and Modernity in Fin-de-Siecle Paris: Staging Modernity New York: Palgrave Macmillan 280 pp., $69.95. ISBN 1-4039-7041-6 Publication Date: December 2005

The current book is a revised dissertation done at New York University under the combined tutelage of Herrick Chapman and Tony Judt; it is difficult to imagine a better or more qualified paring of mentors than these two distinguished scholars. This book is finely crafted as any book I have read in some considerable time. From start to finish. I found it to be a real joy to read.

Charnow's purpose, as she defines it, is to study the origins and early development of modern French theatre from about 1880 to about 1905, when, beginning in Paris, then into Lorraine,...

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