• 0
  • 0 Items - £0.00
    0
    • No products in the cart.

Author

Janice Best is professor emerita of French at Acadia University in Canada. She is the author of three books and two critical editions of plays by Eugène Labiche. Her first book is about naturalist theatre: Adaptation et expérimentation: essai sur la méthode naturaliste d’Émile Zola. The second examines theatre censorship: La Subversion silencieuse: censure, autocensure et lutte pour la liberté d’expression. In Les monuments de Paris sous la Troisième République: contestation et commémoration du passé, she explores a series of 150 commemorative statues to demonstrate how the government of France’s Third Republic used the decoration of public space to create a new founding myth of the republic.

Janice Best

Janice Best is professor emerita of French at Acadia University in Canada. She is the author of three books and two critical editions of plays by Eugène Labiche. Her first book is about naturalist theatre: Adaptation et expérimentation: essai sur la méthode naturaliste d’Émile Zola. The second examines theatre censorship: La Subversion silencieuse: censure, autocensure et lutte pour la liberté d’expression. In Les monuments de Paris sous la Troisième République: contestation et commémoration du passé, she explores a series of 150 commemorative statues to demonstrate how the government of France’s Third Republic used the decoration of public space to create a new founding myth of the republic.

Author's books

9781527539594-2
View more This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page

Power and Propaganda in French Second Empire Theatre

Playing Napoleon
By: Janice Best
From £34.99

In Second Empire France, authorities used the stage for propaganda. This book explores how Napoléon-themed dramas, intended for a working-class audience, were censored to strengthen the regime, shaping collective memory and myths of national identity.

View more This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page