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Reflections on Seventeenth-century Verse ‘Affiches’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2009

William Brooks
William Brooks
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Lecturer in the School of Modern Languages, University of Bath
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In addition to those theatre posters which survive from the seventeenth century, five verse affiches were published. In Dorimond's La Comédie de la comédie (first performed in December 1660 or January 1661), two characters come across an affiche posted on a street corner, and one of them reads it out:

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Theatre Research International , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1985 , pp. 199 - 213
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Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 1985

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