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Undead Dindenault: economics, theatre, and economic theatre in Rabelais's Quart livre and beyond

Eastop, Zak

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Zak Eastop zachary.d.eastop@durham.ac.uk
PGR Student Doctor of Philosophy



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This article is primarily concerned with the Dindenault episode (chapters V-VIII) of François Rabelais’s Quart livre, which deals with economic and theatrical themes simultaneously. While previous studies have tackled these themes separately, I outline how they ought to be considered in tandem and, indeed, rely on one another for significance. I argue that in the Dindenault episode, Rabelais’s use of common theatrical structures and motifs serves as a stage upon which to mount socio-economic critique, constituting a performance of theatrical economics, in the context of a broader example of economic theatre. I then turn to one of the nineteenth-century afterlives of Rabelais’s texts – Théodore Labarre’s and Henri Trianon’s 1855 opera Pantagruel – claiming that the interdependence of the Dindenault scene’s economic and theatrical themes is retroactively confirmed by its move into one of its ‘downstream contexts’: the shepherd’s scandalous afterlife on the musical stage of Second Empire France.

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Eastop, Z. (2022). Undead Dindenault: economics, theatre, and economic theatre in Rabelais's Quart livre and beyond. Early Modern French Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/20563035.2022.2065062

Journal Article Type Article
Online Publication Date May 5, 2022
Publication Date 2022
Deposit Date May 6, 2022
Publicly Available Date Jul 5, 2022
Journal Early Modern French Studies
Print ISSN 2056-3035
Electronic ISSN 2056-3043
Publisher Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/20563035.2022.2065062

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