In the glory years of the Parisian ‘café-concert’ music hall, one comedy character above all others was loved by French audiences: the Englishman. Hannah Scott introduces these roast beef-scoffing, beer-quaffing figures of fun from the nineteenth century.

Speaker:
Dr Hannah Scott, British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow, French and Francophone Studies, University of Nottingham

Singing Les Roastbeef: Comic English characters at the French music hall

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