TY - BOOK AU - Falaky,Fayçal AU - McGinnis,Reginald AU - Bloom,Rori AU - Perras,Jean-Alexandre AU - Hakim,Zeina AU - Yamashita,Masano AU - Mandarino,Erika AU - Hargrave,Katharine AU - Comsa,Maria Teodora AU - Curulla,Annelle TI - Modes of Play in Eighteenth-Century France T2 - Scènes Francophones: Studies in French and Francophone Theater Series SN - 9781684483440 AV - PQ265 U1 - 840.9357909033 PY - 2021/// CY - New Brunswick PB - Bucknell University Press KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Playing with Dolls in Old Regime Fairy Tales -- 2. The Morality of Bilboquet, or the Equivocations of Language -- 3. Fiction as Play: Rhetorical Subversion in Alain-René Lesage's Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane -- 4. Playthings of Fortune: Lots, Games of Chance, and Inequality in l'Abbé Prévost -- 5. Boundless Play and Infinite Pleasure in the Chevalier de Béthune's Relation du monde de Mercure -- 6. The Politics of Orientalist Fantasy in French Opera -- 7. Playing at Theater: Modes of Play in Théâtre de Société -- 8. Between Play and Ritual: Profane Masquerade in the French Revolution -- 9. The Return of Play, or the End of Revolutionary Theater -- 10. Video Games as Cultural History: Procedural Narrative and the Eighteenth-Century Fair Theater -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index N2 - No detailed description available for "Modes of Play in Eighteenth-Century France" UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=6707619 ER -