Écrire pour la Foire Astuces et métamorphoses (Louis Fuzelier à la Foire Saint-Laurent 1715)

Fairground theater playwrights in Paris in the eighteenth century had to work fast to adapt the repertoire to the audience’s taste as well as to the circumstances of the time. Playwrights adapted and redesigned their own creations, taking inspiration from the repertoire of the “Ancien Théâtre-Italien.” The comedy entitled Arlequin déserteur, written by Fuzelier and inspired by the “Ancien Théâtre-Italien,” is a good example of such practices: staged in 1715 at the foire St Laurent, it was later turned into Arlequin défenseur d’Homère by its author.