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Jeffrey Ravel
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The Would-Be Commoner: A Tale of Deception, Murder, and Justice in Seventeenth-Century France (Houghton Mifflin, 2008)

The Contested Parterre: Public Theater and French Political Culture, 1680-1791 (Ithaca 1999).

Selected Articles

  • “The Coachman's Bare Rump: An Eighteenth-Century Cover-up," Eighteenth Century Studies, 40 (2007): 279-308.
  • "The Abderitian Folly: Prescriptions for Playing Private theatricals in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France," Colloque CESAR, juin 2006.
  • "Certitudes comiques et doutes judiciaires: le procès La Pivardière (1697-1699)" in Représentations du Procès: Droit, Théâtre, Littérature, Cinéma, eds. Christian Biet and Laurence Schifano (Paris, 2003): 437-43.
  • "Le Théâtre et ses publics: Pratiques et représentations du parterre au XVIIIe siècle," Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine, 49-3 (juillet-septembre 2002): 89-118.

Selected Online Book Reviews

     


 
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