Abstract: Based on a corpus of French literature approached in a multidisciplinary manner, this work interrogates censorship and criticism as forms of textual reception, their function in structuring the literary field in their treatment of texts and authors, and the discourse they maintain on them.
Keyword: Théâtre, histoire de la critique, liberté de penser, liberté d’expression, littérature et droit, jugement, norme, littérature et institution, opinion, presse