Jouer à la scène et à la bourse : L’agioteur dans La Bourse de François Ponsard
Stock Exchange in Ponsard’s La Bourse: Taking Risk and Playing Money on Stage
Author(s): Florence FixSubject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Language and Literature Studies, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Studies of Literature, French Literature
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: comedy of manners; money on stage; virtual money; stock exchange and financial crisis in 19th century theatre
Summary/Abstract: The 1850 financial crisis of the French economy woke the curiosity for investors who took risks at the newly opened Bourse, the Paris stock exchange. It provided the Parisian stage with a new character, the “agioteur” or “boursicoteur”, and with it many successful comedies. The term might be new, but the typology is not: the role is clearly linked to the comedy of manners and the morality of the melodrama. As can be seen in the 1856 comedy La Bourse by Ponsard, financial investments are condemned as a loss of value and games of chance.
Journal: Roczniki Humanistyczne
- Issue Year: 66/2018
- Issue No: 5
- Page Range: 23-35
- Page Count: 13
- Language: French