Clare Siviter is lecturer in French theatre and performance at the University of Bristol. Her research focuses on the longer Revolutionary period from 1789 to 1815 in France and Francophone communities, and she is particularly interested in censorship, propaganda, and theatrical encounters between different cultures.

Shortlisted for the Society for French Studies' R. Gapper Book Prize

• List of illustrations and tablesAcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsNote on the textIntroductionReconstructing the nationTracing tragedyResearch aims and structureI. The reimposition of the tragic canon: introductionChapter 1: The tragic inheritanceThe eighteenth centuryThe RevolutionChapter 2: Rewriting the pastAttempts at adaptationInstitutional rewritingsTracing tragedy in performanceThe legacy of the afterlivesChapter 3: Heroic conquerorsCensorshipPropagandaII. New Napoleonic tragedies: introductionTragédieChapter 4: Composition, performance, reception: pulling back the curtain on censorship and propagandaTo the Comédie-FrançaiseThe bureaucratic censorship systemBack at the theatreIn printChapter 5: The ambiguity of antiquityAncient Greece: Pyrrhus, 1807, Polyxène, 1804, and Hector, 1809Ancient Rome: Vitellie, 1809, Tibère, Bélisaire, Scipion, ou l’Africain and Camille, ou le Capitole sauvéChapter 6: Heroes of the EastCyrus, 1804Ninus II, 1813Artaxerce, 1808Omasis, ou Joseph en Egypte, 1806Chapter 7: Fear of the foreignStaging foreign history: Mahomet II, 1811, Pierre le Grand, 1804, and Don Pèdre, ou le Roi et le laboureur, 1802Foreign threats: Jeanne Gray, Marie Stuart, L’Orphelin polonois, Gênes sauvée and WallsteinChapter 8: Meddling in the Middle AgesThe Middle Ages on the stage: Brunehaut, 1810, and Les Templiers, 1805Unperformed medieval tragédies nationales: Charlemagne, Clovis, Baudouin empereur, La Dèmence de Charles VI, La Régence de Charles VII and Arthur de BretagneChapter 9: Testing tragédies nationalesLes Etats de Blois, 1810 and 1814La Mort de Henri IV, 1806Tippo-Saëb, 1813ConclusionAppendix 1Appendix 2Appendix 3BibliographyIndex

Clare Siviter is lecturer in French theatre and performance at the University of Bristol. Her research focuses on the longer Revolutionary period from 1789 to 1815 in France and Francophone communities, and she is particularly interested in censorship, propaganda, and theatrical encounters between different cultures.

Shortlisted for the Society for French Studies' R. Gapper Book Prize

• List of illustrations and tablesAcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsNote on the textIntroductionReconstructing the nationTracing tragedyResearch aims and structureI. The reimposition of the tragic canon: introductionChapter 1: The tragic inheritanceThe eighteenth centuryThe RevolutionChapter 2: Rewriting the pastAttempts at adaptationInstitutional rewritingsTracing tragedy in performanceThe legacy of the afterlivesChapter 3: Heroic conquerorsCensorshipPropagandaII. New Napoleonic tragedies: introductionTragédieChapter 4: Composition, performance, reception: pulling back the curtain on censorship and propagandaTo the Comédie-FrançaiseThe bureaucratic censorship systemBack at the theatreIn printChapter 5: The ambiguity of antiquityAncient Greece: Pyrrhus, 1807, Polyxène, 1804, and Hector, 1809Ancient Rome: Vitellie, 1809, Tibère, Bélisaire, Scipion, ou l’Africain and Camille, ou le Capitole sauvéChapter 6: Heroes of the EastCyrus, 1804Ninus II, 1813Artaxerce, 1808Omasis, ou Joseph en Egypte, 1806Chapter 7: Fear of the foreignStaging foreign history: Mahomet II, 1811, Pierre le Grand, 1804, and Don Pèdre, ou le Roi et le laboureur, 1802Foreign threats: Jeanne Gray, Marie Stuart, L’Orphelin polonois, Gênes sauvée and WallsteinChapter 8: Meddling in the Middle AgesThe Middle Ages on the stage: Brunehaut, 1810, and Les Templiers, 1805Unperformed medieval tragédies nationales: Charlemagne, Clovis, Baudouin empereur, La Dèmence de Charles VI, La Régence de Charles VII and Arthur de BretagneChapter 9: Testing tragédies nationalesLes Etats de Blois, 1810 and 1814La Mort de Henri IV, 1806Tippo-Saëb, 1813ConclusionAppendix 1Appendix 2Appendix 3BibliographyIndex

Clare Siviter is lecturer in French theatre and performance at the University of Bristol. Her research focuses on the longer Revolutionary period from 1789 to 1815 in France and Francophone communities, and she is particularly interested in censorship, propaganda, and theatrical encounters between different cultures.

Shortlisted for the Society for French Studies' R. Gapper Book Prize

• List of illustrations and tablesAcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsNote on the textIntroductionReconstructing the nationTracing tragedyResearch aims and structureI. The reimposition of the tragic canon: introductionChapter 1: The tragic inheritanceThe eighteenth centuryThe RevolutionChapter 2: Rewriting the pastAttempts at adaptationInstitutional rewritingsTracing tragedy in performanceThe legacy of the afterlivesChapter 3: Heroic conquerorsCensorshipPropagandaII. New Napoleonic tragedies: introductionTragédieChapter 4: Composition, performance, reception: pulling back the curtain on censorship and propagandaTo the Comédie-FrançaiseThe bureaucratic censorship systemBack at the theatreIn printChapter 5: The ambiguity of antiquityAncient Greece: Pyrrhus, 1807, Polyxène, 1804, and Hector, 1809Ancient Rome: Vitellie, 1809, Tibère, Bélisaire, Scipion, ou l’Africain and Camille, ou le Capitole sauvéChapter 6: Heroes of the EastCyrus, 1804Ninus II, 1813Artaxerce, 1808Omasis, ou Joseph en Egypte, 1806Chapter 7: Fear of the foreignStaging foreign history: Mahomet II, 1811, Pierre le Grand, 1804, and Don Pèdre, ou le Roi et le laboureur, 1802Foreign threats: Jeanne Gray, Marie Stuart, L’Orphelin polonois, Gênes sauvée and WallsteinChapter 8: Meddling in the Middle AgesThe Middle Ages on the stage: Brunehaut, 1810, and Les Templiers, 1805Unperformed medieval tragédies nationales: Charlemagne, Clovis, Baudouin empereur, La Dèmence de Charles VI, La Régence de Charles VII and Arthur de BretagneChapter 9: Testing tragédies nationalesLes Etats de Blois, 1810 and 1814La Mort de Henri IV, 1806Tippo-Saëb, 1813ConclusionAppendix 1Appendix 2Appendix 3BibliographyIndex