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How did a swashbuckling seventeenth-century opera singer become the heroine of a nineteenth-century novel? What does this tell us about the performance and perception of gender in both eras? And did the mysterious Mademoiselle de Maupin really run away with a nun? This week’s episode of Footnoting History looks at all that... and dueling!
Podcaster: Lucy
Further Reading
J.M.B. Clement and Abbé de Laporte, Anecdotes Dramatiques. Theophile Gautier. Mademoiselle de Maupin: A Romance of Love and Passion. Paris, 1835. C. and F. Parfaict. Dictionnaire des Théatres de Paris. Sadie, Julie Anne. “Maupin.” The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. London: Macmillan, 1992. Music by Kevin MacLeod (www.incompetech.com) Leave a Reply. |