Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press, 1973.
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Jeanne Becu comtesse Du Barry
Standard Name: Du Barry, Jeanne Becu,,, comtesse
Used Form: Jeanne Becu, comtesse Du Barri
Used Form: Jeanne Rancon, Madame DuBarry
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary Setting | Catherine Gore | Any relation to Jonathan Swift
's A Tale of a Tub is indirect and inexplicit. The tub in this case is the working tool of Jeannette, stocking-mender, launderer, and cousin of du Barry
(who herself... |
| Performance of text | Christopher St John | CSJ
's play Du Barri (whose protagonist was well known as a mistress to Louis XV
) was first performed at the Savoy Theatre
, London. |
| Textual Features | Hélène Barcynska | The eponymous heroine of The Activities (officially named Lavinia but always called Lavie) is an American railroad heiress, whose father arranges for her to be introduced into English high society by Lady Loamington, who badly... |
| Textual Production | Catherine Gore | CG
continued her mining of the pre-revolutionary French period in her next play, A Tale of a Tub, in which a central figure is the royal mistress Madame Du Barry
. Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, 1999, pp. 1-34. 22 |
| Textual Production | Dorothy Richardson | During the later phase of her career, DR
translated about five monographs from German and French into English; these texts were published between 1932 and 1934. They include The Dubarry [sic], a biography of... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Grace Elliott | GE
concentrates on her Revolution experiences; the rest of her life-story remains untold. Her work bears the marks of its birth as oral history. She presents the French Revolution in black and white moral terms... |
Timeline
30 May 1771: A letter to the Gazetteer attributed all...
Building item
30 May 1771
A letter to the Gazetteer attributed all the faults of French absolutist government to the influence of madame Du Barry
(1746-93, mistress to the former monarch Louis XV) and to Marie Antoinette
.
Clark, Anna. “The Chevalier d’Eon and Wilkes: Masculinity and Politics in the Eighteenth Century”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
32
, No. 1, 1998, pp. 19-48. 31
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
under Du Barry
Texts
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