Joseph Bouchardy, Paris le Bohémien: Drame en cinq actes (Paris the Bohemian: Drama in Five Acts) 1842. Sole Edition. Théatre de la Porte Saint-Martin & Dondey-Dupré: Paris. Softcover Octavo, 36 pp.
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Though virtually forgotten today, Joseph Bouchardy was a co-founder of the Bouzingo group, the first self-declared “avant-garde” collective, blending political radicalism, gothic-horror subculture, experimental literature and art, and the transformation of everyday life. Trained in England as an engraver, back in France he soon turned to playwriting, and produced many blockbuster melodramas full of deception, disguise, double-crossing, violence, and convoluted, labyrinthine plots often taking place in labyrinthine settings--delighted when he was able to construct plots so complex that he even lost track of them himself. Paris the Bohemian is such a play. The first performance, as noted at the head of this paperback script, starred Fréderick Lemaître, the leading Romanticist actor, in the starring role. Incidentally, the chapbook is published by Dondey-Dupré, the extended family of Bouchardy's Bouzingo collaborator Philothée O'Neddy--though this has more to do with the sponsorship of the Théatre de la Porte Saint-Martin than with O'Neddy, for they were not sympathetic to the Romanticist cause.
Though virtually forgotten today, Joseph Bouchardy was a co-founder of the Bouzingo group, the first self-declared “avant-garde” collective, blending political radicalism, gothic-horror subculture, experimental literature and art, and the transformation of everyday life. Trained in England as an engraver, back in France he soon turned to playwriting, and produced many blockbuster melodramas full of deception, disguise, double-crossing, violence, and convoluted, labyrinthine plots often taking place in labyrinthine settings--delighted when he was able to construct plots so complex that he even lost track of them himself. Paris the Bohemian is such a play. The first performance, as noted at the head of this paperback script, starred Fréderick Lemaître, the leading Romanticist actor, in the starring role. Incidentally, the chapbook is published by Dondey-Dupré, the extended family of Bouchardy's Bouzingo collaborator Philothée O'Neddy--though this has more to do with the sponsorship of the Théatre de la Porte Saint-Martin than with O'Neddy, for they were not sympathetic to the Romanticist cause.
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