Rousseau on Stage: Playwright, Musician, Spectator

List of illustrations Jean-Jacques Rousseau: a theatre and music chronology Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Maria Gullstam and Michael O'Dea, Introduction: 'La verite est que Racine me charme' Part I. Rousseau as theorist of theatre and opera 1. The anthropological foresight of the Lettre sur les spectacles, Felicity Baker 2. The dramaturgy of Rousseau's Lettre a d'Alembert and its importance for modern theatre, Patrick Primavesi 3. The voice of nature in Rousseau's theatre: reconstructing a dramaturgy, Jorgen Langdalen 4. Rousseau's Pygmalion and the limits of (operatic) expression, Jacqueline Waeber Part II. Rousseau as playwright 5. Pygmalion's power struggles: Rousseau, Rameau and Galathee, Maria Gullstam 6. Rousseau and his early comedies: the concept of the comic, Marie-Emmanuelle Plagnol-Dieval 7. Rousseau's Pygmalion and the theatre of autobiography, David Marshall Part III. Rousseau's operatic and theatrical posterity 8. The melodic language of Le Devin du village and the evolution of opera-comique, David Charlton 9. Rousseau's ghost: Le Devin du village at the Paris Opera, 1770-1779, Michael O'Dea 10. A theatrophobic dramatist: J.-J. Rousseau's position in theatre historiography and on today's stage, Willmar Sauter 11. The judgement of Rousseau: Paride ed Elena by Gluck and Calzabigi (Vienna, 1770), Magnus Tessing Schneider Summaries Bibliography Index

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• Estudos literários: c 1500 a c 1800
• Filosofia ocidental: Iluminismo