The multi-dimensionality of Les Mauvais Bergers, its many political and artistic interpretations, is testament firstly to the unique capacity of theatre in straddling these realms, and secondly the practical difficulties of representing French anarchism theatrically in Belle Epoque Paris, and so Reg Carr concludes that Les Mauvais Bergers was "inevitably misunderstood by many of his contemporaries who did not appreciate Mirbeau's [anarchistic] position"14. ...

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