TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bernède,Arthur
AU  - Cropper,Corry
AU  - Delacour,Alfred
AU  - Desvallières,Maurice
AU  - Dubarry,Albert
AU  - Flood,Christopher M.
AU  - Leroy,Louis
AU  - Mars,Antony
TI  - Mormons in Paris: Polygamy on the French Stage, 1874-1892 
T2  - Scènes francophones: Studies in French and Francophone Theater
SN  - 9781684482405
AV  - PQ1240.E7 M67 2021
U1  - 842/.809382 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Lewisburg, PA : 
PB  - Bucknell University Press, 
KW  - French drama (Comedy)
KW  - Translations into English
KW  - French drama
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Mormons in literature
KW  - Polygamy in literature
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Mormonism, polygamy, French theater, marriage and divorce, plays, translation, French vaudeville, French operetta, French plays, novels, cartoons, Art, Art works, Mormons, Literary Studies, Religion, Cultural Studies, Music, Architecture, Film, Media Studies, Communications, French, 19th Century, Modern
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; MORMONS IN PARIS --; BERTHELIER MEETS THE MORMONS --; JAPHETH’S TWELVE WIVES --; STEPHANA’S JEWEL --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; NOTES --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX --; ABOUT THE EDITORS; restricted access
N2  - In the late nineteenth century, numerous French plays, novels, cartoons, and works of art focused on Mormons. Unlike American authors who portrayed Mormons as malevolent “others,” however, French dramatists used Mormonism to point out hypocrisy in their own culture. Aren't Mormon women, because of their numbers in a household, more liberated than French women who can't divorce? What is polygamy but another name for multiple mistresses? This new critical edition presents translations of four musical comedies staged or published in France in the late 1800s: Mormons in Paris (1874), Berthelier Meets the Mormons (1875), Japheth’s Twelve Wives (1890), and Stephana’s Jewel (1892). Each is accompanied by a short contextualizing introduction with details about the music, playwrights, and staging. Humorous and largely unknown, these plays use Mormonism to explore and mock changing French mentalities during the Third Republic, lampooning shifting attitudes and evolving laws about marriage, divorce, and gender roles. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press
UR  - https://doi.org/10.36019/9781684482405
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781684482405
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781684482405/original
ER  -