Germaine de Staël
Germaine de Staël (1766-1817) used her prominent position in the salons to question authority and create her own theatre. Her political and feminist writings caused her to be exiled for many years, and she soon became a forerunner of the emerging Romantic movement.[1] While in exile she surrounded herself with the intellectuals of Europe and created her own amateur theatre in Coppet, Switzerland, where some of her own plays where performed, often with de Staël herself on stage.[2]
- ↑ Maria Fairweather, Madame de Staël (London, 2005); Carla Hesse, The Other Enlightenment (New Jersey, 2001); Machteld de Poortere, The Philosophical and Literary Ideas of Mme De Staël and of Mme De Genlis, (New York, 2007).
- ↑ Rougemont, Martine de 'Pour un répertoire des rôles et des représentations de Mme de Staël’, Cahiers Staëliens, no. 19, 1974, p. 79-92; Plagnol-Diéval, M-E, ‘Le Théâtre des familles de madame de Staël’, Cahiers Staëliens, no. 50, 1999, p. 45-65 ; Blandine Poirier, 'Le Théâtre de société de Germaine de Staël: une forme d’engagement ?', in Théâtre et société : Réseaux de sociabilité et représentations de la société, eds. Valentina Ponzetto and Jennifer Ruimi, p. 105-124.