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Reich, Michèle. "Le comique de l'hybridation et l'exhibition du comique dans les formes dramatiques et paradramatiques contemporaines." Paris 3, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA030075.
Full textOur purpose is to study the comicality of hybridization and exhibition through the dramatic and paradramatic contemporaneous works. Our analytical investigations does not respect literal chronology. It will not be reduced to a period or some French or French speakers playwrights. First, we will study the comicality in question. Then we will try to focus on the poetics of laughter. The third part will deal with the principal forms of modern comicality. The fourth part defines hybridization in the grotesque comic style and the burlesque modalities of exhibition. The fifth one will focus on how hybridization and exhibition appear through the plays, how the spectator is confronted with the Actor as a Fool who makes him laugh hilariously. So will be drawn the major features of the mutations of the theatral contemporaneous comicality
Bara, Olivier. "Le théâtre de l'Opéra-comique entre 1822 et 1827 : la difficile recherche d'un genre moyen." Paris 3, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA030084.
Full textDuring the French Restoration, the opera comique revived when a new generation of librettists and composers appeared: the six years between 1822 and 1827, centring on Boieldieu La dame blanche (1825), were those of the first successes of auber, Hérold or Carafa, with libretti by Scribe, Planard or de Kock. A very close analysis underlines the institutional, sociological, ideological, theoretical and aesthetic tensions at play within opera comique during this short period of transition. The concept of "genre moyen" helps to apprehend this proteiform theatre at the fringe of the consecrated lyrical and dramatic genres, of the opera and the theatre, of the royal and secondary playhouses, of the popular shows and the so-called noble arts. The established bodies, thanks to the management of pixerecourt, tried to develop an honest artistic average; hesitating between a conservative and a creative theatre without ceasing to fight against the competition of vaudeville, melodrama and italian opera. The opera comique audiences and ideologies mirror the upheavals of the restoration; a compromise appeared between the extremist discourse of the first romanticism and the bourgeois world image. In the press, the theorists themselves hesitated between nostalgia for the pure genre of the ancien regime and annoyance for undemanding musical compositions. An aesthetic approach shows that the opera comique made use of a combinatorial art mixing various consecrated drama techniques, assimilating vaudeville, melodrama and rossinian vocality, and making use of both ornamental and dramatic musical forms in each work. Laughter, in opera comique, is based in fact on desacralization of forms and ironic distancing: the "genre moyen" does not carry out its aesthetic choices; as a stage for entertainment, the opera comique refused to be fully what it could have become
Alainmat, Miniconi Marianne. "La folie, thème dramatique dans le théâtre comique et tragi-comique au dix-septième siècle : l'ambigui͏̈té." Aix-Marseille 1, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986AIX10053.
Full textMahmoud, Maher Taha Hosnah. "Masque et pouvoir : les techniques du camouflage dans le théâtre comique." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012LYO20023.
Full textThere would be constant interaction between comic theater, mask, and power that we examine through a comparative and intertextual reading of French francophone, and egyptian plays from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; focusing on the techniques of camouflage and their targets, which affirm continuity between cultures. We show that “distanciation”, although attached to the serious world of Brechtian dramaturgy, excels in the comic theater of the mask. This project comprises of three parts. In the first chapter of the initial part, we review the metamorphoses of the mask with its processes, by matching comic theater and concept of power. Then we put in a second chapter ,the theoretical basis and methodology, used as the basis for our study; addressing the theater of the mask as a dramatic process of “distanciation”. Firstly we examine the distance through the zones of the text (stage directions, prologue, & embedded shows), where the theater is presented alike. We devote the second part to the exploration of all the processes employed by the playwrights, in order to distance the character wearing the mask of power, highlighting its comic and carnivalesque aspects. The travesty in its various facets imposes a balance of power (relationship of power) between the characters. Which is manifested through verbal and non verbal exchange behind the mask ,space, and time which are vectors of distanciation (as seen in the third part). The spatio-temporal framework, being the holder of a game of make-believe, rooted the relationship of domination caused by the mask. The fictitious emerges an image of reality
Narvaez, Annelise. "Plaute et la question du genre comique." Thesis, Normandie, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017NORMR144.
Full textPlautus is one of the only two Roman playwrights whose plays have been preserved. However, the Plautinian corpus remains a problematic object : among the 130 plays that circulated under Plautus' name in the Antiquity, only 21 have been transmitted to us – those identified by the grammarian Varro in the 1st century BC as characteristic of Plautus. No doubt that these plays belonging to the Plautinian corpus are comedies, for the poet had them performed as comedies in the ritual context of the ludi. Moreover, the text of the plays themselves, on various occasions, mentions them as belonging the the genre of the comoedia. For those reasons, it can be interesting to question the dramatic genre : Plautus claims it as a framework for his plays, but the comic genre seems to play a further part in his comedies. This work aims at questionning Plautus' relationship to comedy : to do so, it lights up the various means through which Plautinian comedy shows itself as theatre in general, and as comedy in particular. Metatheatre – the explicit self-consciousness of being theatre – thus appears as a ludic process which tries to play with the audience and to trigger laughter. This works also aims to demonstrating that some of Plautus' comedies draw their comic specificity from playing on the epic and tragic genres. One could talk about Plautus of a metapoetics of the comic genre
Pangop, Kameni Alain Cyr. "Le discours du théâtre comique au Cameroun : approche sémiologique d'une communication socioculturelle." Cergy-Pontoise, 2003. http://biblioweb.u-cergy.fr/theses/03CERG0187.pdf.
Full textShi, Yeting. "L'adaptation des pièces comiques du théâtre français au cinéma." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015BOR30013/document.
Full textEvery year in France, plenty of new movies are adapted from literary works, among them, we can often notice the films adapted from comic plays. Indeed, since its invention, the cinema is closely related to the theater, especially to the comic plays. The filmmakers try to find their inspiration in classic plays (The Miser, La Fausse suivante, Cyrano de Bergerac, etc.) as well as modern plays (La Cage aux Folles, Dinner of Fools, The First Name, etc.) but also in vaudeville (Un chapeau de paille d’Italie, Love on the Rack, etc.), in dinner theater (the plays of the Splendid) and in the plays of Sacha Guitry and Marcel Pagnol, who experienced the boom period of « théâtre filmé ». As two performing arts, theater and cinema share a lot of common points but have also many differences. They influence each other. The audience, unconsciously, watches the theatrical performance with a « cinématisée » vision. Conversely, we deploy theatricality in each sequence of the film. In the comic plays, what is the relationship between cinema and theater? Are the comic elements of theater the same as those in cinema? What effects do they give? The study of the adaptation of comic plays to the cinema in the period defined by our corpus lets us see the principles of adaptation and know the change in the relationship between theater and cinema. This change shows us the maturing process of a young art —the art of cinema. The aesthetic values that we have reveald in this work will help us understand the performing arts in a deep way, and the social value of an adapted film will let us realize the need of this adaptation
Ruberry-Blanc, Pauline. "La vision tragi-comique de William Shakespeare et ses précédents dans le théâtre Tudor." Lyon 2, 2000. http://theses.univ-lyon2.fr/documents/lyon2/2000/ruberry_p.
Full textThis doctoral thesis takes the medieval and late-medieval theatre as a starting-point for its exploration of the aesthetic and cultural matrix which shaped Shakespeare's tragic-comic vision. The character known as the Vice", who appears in many Tudor plays, and who is often considered to be an incarnation of the English tragi-comic spirit, provides a useful pointer to the theatrical conventions which Shakespeare transmutes in the process of creating his own plays. The second part of this study centres on Richard III and Falstaff necessitating frequent comparisons between Shakespeare's dramaturgy and that of his predecessors in order to underline the diachronic continuities as well as the embryonic developments. In the third section, the ethical-literary-philosophical background of the Elizabethan age is explored, along with an examination of the manner in which some of the most prominent myths of classical antiquity are adapted to the aristocratic and public stages from 1594 to 1616. These elements are seen to contribute to the formation of a separate theatrical genre, bearing much resemblance to Guarini's "tragi-comedy," which occupied the Jacobean stage. Throughout this analysis of the eclectic nature of Shakespeare's tragi-comic vision emphasis is laid upon his transcendence of inherited traditions and conventions
Dumas, Catherine. "Du gracioso au valet comique : contribution à la comparaison de deux dramaturgies (1610-1660)." Paris 10, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA100124.
Full textRoumilhac, Henri. "L'influence de la morale dominante sur le théâtre comique en France entre 1875 et 1881." Paris 10, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA100057.
Full textThe thesis is a study of the relations between the various aspects of comic theatre and moral order in France between 1875 and 1881. Aesthetics, the history of comedy and the themes, studied in the first part, are stamped with a serious and bourgeois ethic; the second part shows how the carrier of comic authors and the power of mentalities confirm the influence of social values (those included in their norms and in the transgressions that they allow). The corpus is made up by the whole of comic types: light comedy, vaudeville, "bouffes" as well as the important production of comic-opera libretti. The main problematic of the work is made up by the relations between aesthetics and morals, the wide range of comic types, the presentation to the public of works often judged as minor ones. The contributions of the research can be found in the fields of theatrical censorship, in the hierarchy between the different theatres and types of play, in the evolution of dramatic writing during the period studied. The contents of theatrical seasons, the biography of the main authors and a comparison (made up from specific works) between the thought of the second empire and the early third republic can be found in the annexes. After the bibliography comes an index of the different sound documents which exist
Fournier, Stéphanie. "Rire au théâtre à la fin du XVIIIe siècle : portée sociale, littéraire, philosophique, morale et politique." Thesis, Paris 4, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA040070.
Full textDuring the 1760’s years, new small theatres are setting up on the “boulevard du Temple” in Paris, in competition with the three official theatres of the Capital: the Opéra, the Comédie-Française and the Comédie-Italienne. Their institutionalization during the Revolution brings about their proliferation but also implies a new conception of the theatre, which is not anymore a subsidized art in the service of the King, but a real company which intend to survive by making profits, trying to attract more and more audience. This thesis first intends to analyse the performances in their totality and to understand how were created success plays or star actors embodying theatrical characters. It tries to understand the theatre of this period as a society phenomenon inferring new modes of creation focused on the audience’s reception. This study is centred on laughter, as a supposed effect of the theatrical comic but also as an effective audience’s demonstration during performances, attesting the success of dramas performed in these theatres and revealing, by its diverse meanings and its evolution, tense relations between theatres, intellectual elite, moral and political authorities, during a period of major historic upheaval. Beyond, this work aims at revalue a whole piece of a neglected funny theatrical heritage at the end of the eighteenth century, that nonetheless could boast important comedy writers, plays and actors
Arac-Kocaman, Sengul. "Les sources du comique chez Ionesco." Paris 8, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA081772.
Full textScandarolli, Inacio Denise. "Scènes négligées ou vaudeville, opéra-comique et la transformation du théâtre à Rio de Janeiro, dans les années 1840." Thesis, Paris 4, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA040121.
Full textIn the 1840s, the French theater companies Compagnie Française Dramatique, and Compagnie Française Lyrique arrived in Rio de Janeiro. They settled in the Brazilian court with a specific repertoire composed mostly by vaudeville and opéra-comiques, and even though little was known about the story of these two group, their actions impacted theatrical practices of the court. This thesis addresses the story of these French companies. They were fundamental in the development of multiple axes, and remarkably connected with regiments of spectacle rooms, artistic criticism, censorship, to structure a national theater and confronted with the meanings of "civilized" and French values. One can therefore understand the cultural dialogues established with French art by the mechanisms of action of these artists in Rio de Janeiro, and the relationships established among the different entities related to the Art
Glinska, Klementyna Aura. "La "comédie latine" du XIIe siècle : rhétorique et comique." Thesis, Paris 4, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA040163.
Full textThe corpus of ‘elegiac comedies’, or 12th and 13th-century ‘Latin comedies’, was perceived as an anthology of some curious texts, the literary tradition of which was, nevertheless, clearly defined. Indeed, the notion of 'elegiac comedy’ designates the theatrical tradition as a point of reference, which is essential for the formation of' the ‘genre’. The objective of this thesis is to deconstruct the concept of ‘elegiac comedy’ and to describe the 12th-century texts of the corpus in exact accordance with their historicity. The word ‘comic’ refers here to comoedia as a historical phenomenon and not to some categories of anthropological, philosophical or psychological nature; the ‘laughter’ is not but one of the possible answers. The revision of the sources fundamental for the formation of medieval knowledge of ancient comedy as well as the interpretation of 12th- and 13th-century poetriae help to shed light on the meaning of the term comoedia employed both by the authors of comoediae from the Loire Valley and by their readers. The study of the relations of the elegiac comedies with the tradition of ancient comedy involves, moreover, the examination of their paratexts and co-texts, the body of which is determined by the preserved manuscripts. Thus, the analysis of the historical, ideological and theoretical context, as well as the study of manuscripts of the elegiac comedies, define these compositions as the texts that form and embody the rhetorical and ethical rules exhibited in the poetriae
Giuffrè, Gabriele. "Le bestiaire de la violence sur la scène : métaphores animales dans le théâtre attique tragique et comique." Thesis, Paris 1, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA01H092.
Full textThe thesis analyzes the animal metaphors in the tragic drama and comedy. In tragedy metaphor represent the history and the cruel murders of ciolent women who have forgotten their role as mothers and wives. These poetic images thus represent ideologically the violence of anti-mothers of the tragedy, Clytemnestra, Medea, Hecuba. In comedy instead many animal metaphors relate to the character of Cleon, meaning that they assume a clear political value and want to denounce the demagogue. Each image is analyzed in a comparative manner and according to reports of intertextuality between comedy and tragedy
Berger, Cécile. "Le "forestiero" dans le théâtre comique de Carlo Goldoni : l'oeil persan, la lunette d'astronome et le miroir." Paris 8, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA081424.
Full textAfter the profusion of goldoni criticism following the 1993 bicentennial of his death, it was not so easy to find new ways of studying the playwright and his work. But these recent studies had shown how much of a european goldoni was at his time (1707-1793). So our choice of the character of the "foreigner" (forestiero in italian) could underline an interesting aspect of the goldonian theatre: the cryptic link between "us" and "them", the "same" and the "different", "here" and "there". . . First, the foreigner's presence would often show the venetian reality through his "persian" eyes. Second, he allows to emphasize the dialectic aspect of goldoni's dramaturgy through his presenceabsence on the stage and his isolated outlook upon the other characters. And finally, he is the "different" one who is also ambivalently the "same": he stands for goldoni himself, when he is turned into the mirror of a subtle stage autobiography, which parallels the memoires written in paris after 1784. Numerous aspects of the foreigner come from goldoni's own literary knowledge. The figure of the wandering actor is a follow-up from scarron's roman comique, the "persian" eyes that look out on venice strongly resemble montesquieu's in the lettres persanes. Goldoni himself forever foreigner - in venice too - seems to write his own autobiography in the manner of his century's travel novels. The errant pilgrim's analytical vision might come from goldoni's interest in alchemy (his father was a doctor): the foreigner is like the doctor of the diseased venetian stage (corrupted by the commedia dell'arte's obscenity) whose progressive transformation the dramatist is to oversee over a series of scenic experiments from 1750 to 1753. And finally, the foreigner is an avatar of the 18 th century new journalists: he is a precursor of the caffe of milan (1764-66) and their outside and ironical vision of italian reality
Dia, Makhmouth. "Comique et tragique : la dramaturgie de Wole Soyinkia à l'épreuve d'une problématique théâtrale africaine." Caen, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009CAEN1560.
Full textThis research is a study of the comic and the tragic in the theatrical work of Wole Soyinka. It analyses, on one hand, the depiction and the dramaturgical relations between the comic and the tragic in his drama and, on the other hand, relates them to the sociological and ideological context of modern Africa. The association of the tragic and the comic is one of the most important pillars of contemporary African drama, according to critics. The aim of this research is to examine the nature, the forms and the meaning of this association in Soyinka’s drama. From the same viewpoint, the aim is to determine the place of comedy in African tragedy. The Nigerian dramatist has proposed an African tragedy based on Yoruba cosmogony, rituals and metaphysics. However, as it is usually the case with propositions of African tragedy, Soyinka has underestimated the comic in the process. Yet, the complexity of this comic invites to a different approach. Broadly speaking, critics seem to have misjudged the comic aspect in African tragedy. Although it is less researched area, it is known that African audiences laugh during representations of tragedies. It is also said that laughter and festivity are part of daily life, including during its tragic moments. On this respect, the aim of this research is to identify an African tragedy through the drama of comic. Soyinka’s drama shows that this comic aspect, this laughter, and this festivity are at the expression of man’s modern tragedy. The dramatic text, the historical and aesthetic process, and the poetics of its reception are the pillars of this expression
Winkler, Jean-Marie. "Le théâtre de Thomas Bernhard : formes et structures." Paris 10, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988PA100067.
Full textThis work analyses the first fourteen plays written by Thomas Bernhard (Austrian playwright born in 1931) which were written from 1970 to 1984. The method chosen here uses notions of formalism and structuralism and tries to provide an interpretation for the observed structures. In the first part, the systematic opposition between expectation and "divertissement" in the pascalian sense determines a theatre of negativity and immobility which makes any action impossible. The second part is a study of "words", of the opposition between speech and muteness as well as of the different forms of speech. Theatrical writing becomes a musical and logical score. The third part deals with the opposition between tragedy and comedy: tragy-comedy implies a grotesque vision of man and universe which makes that theatre shift to the ridicule and derision. As a conclusion, this theatre belongs to a modern dramatically trend which discards illusion and which aims at making a puzzled spectator active. Confronted with nothingness, the author fights his own darkness by means of an obstinate search for form and for the work of art
Bouhaïk-Gironès, Marie. "La Basoche et le théâtre comique : identité sociale, pratiques et culture des clercs de justice (Paris, 1420-1550)." Paris 7, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA070036.
Full textThe Basoche du Palais, likely formed towards the end of the XIVth century, is the trade community of the law clerks, "lawyers", "procureurs" and "conseillers" of the Paris Parliament. It defends their professional rights and organises apprenticeship. The law clerks have their own specific community, professional and cultural practices, among which theatre takes a major role. It is necessary to consider the Basoche theatre as an extension of the didactic practices of this corporation. Their judiciary practices (especially the "causes grasses") and their theatre practices are linked, and are transmitted among their trade community, warrant of the cultural heritage of the legal professions. The farces and sotties played by the law clerks reveal a proper basochial culture, where a carnivalesque spirit thrives, where the political satire takes a prime place, nurturing a strong "esprit de corps", a pronounced inclination towards intellectual reasoning, a certain degree of anti-clericalism and an obvious form of materialism. These theatre representations are controlled by the Paris Parliament, which nonetheless takes a benevolent and protecting attitude towards the "Basochiens" at the beginning of the XVlth century. Among the authors connected with the Basoche one counts Guillaume Coquillart, Martial d'Auvergne, Pierre Gringore, Jehan Bouchet, Jehan d'Abondance, André de la Vigne, Roger de Collerye, François Habert and Clément Marot
Galanes, Georgios. "Le comique dans les comédies de la Renaissance crétoise et l'influence des comédies italiennes du XVIe siècle." Paris, INALCO, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999INAL0002.
Full textThe comic characters, situations and expressions found in the three Cretan Renaissance comedies are compared to those of the sixteenth century Italian "commedie erudite", which are a revival of New comedy (NEA). Cretan comedies follow the evolution of Italian comedies under the influence of Commedia dell'Arte, by using some popular theatre elements
Deforge, Liselotte. "Les expressions du comique dans les tragédies grecques, du texte à la scène contemporaine." Thesis, Nantes, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018NANT2031/document.
Full textTalking about comic elements among ancient Greek tragedy, specially the tragic ones, might seem paradoxical ; however the text’ arrengement, the dialogues’composition, and the multiplicity of characters provide many opportunities for the comic expression to set down : joyful when it is driven by popular characters, offensive when it is driven by the tyrannical kings, or even the tragic irony itself. Comic elements set the mythos on different tonalities and complicate the connection with the spectators so that the story performed on the stage become a truly show. Comic thus is not a foreign object from tragedy. On the contemporary scene, stage directors process those comic elements in different way according to the aesthetic they put forward ; when they choose to use them, their rendering are always different. The study of the staging of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon directed by Olivier Py (2008) and Cyril Cotinaut (2015), Sophocles’ Antigone directed by Farid Paya (1998), Jacques Nichet (2003), Paulo Correia (2009), Olivier Broda (2012) and Adel Hakim (2013), as well as Euripides’ Bacchae directed by Coralie Pradet (2013) and Philippe Brunet (2015), reveal either an ≪ assumed ≫ comic, a funny one, either a ≪ suggested ≫ comic which creates detachment. Ludicrusness and grotesque take different shape and carry out several functions which enrich and nourrish the tragic show
Jaziri, Anissa. "Drôlerie et noblesse : l'esthétique et l'éthique du corps des aristocrates à l'épreuve des dramaturgies comiques et tragi-comiques du XVIIe siècle français." Thesis, Paris 10, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA100004/document.
Full textWhile the body of the common people has inspired many sociological and anthropological approaches, our research has focused on the study of the body image of aristocratic characters in french seventeenth century comic and tragic dramaturgies.Although the often heroic presence of this social category is part of the so-called "noble" genre of tragedy, it is, and according to a long Aristotelian tradition, banned from the comic genre considered more susceptible to the mediocre, even the ugly, physical and moral, and to consider things of the body. Based on a corpus of sixty comedies and tragicomedies dating from 1629 to 1690, our study of the physical images of the nobles then leads to a particular aesthetic that makes us question the compatibility between the often idealizing representation of the "honest men" and laughter. However, to highlight the pleasant presence of the noble body on stage, we referred to a more subtle notion than the comic, that of the drollery which lies between the approval of the celebration of the beauties of the aristocrats concerned by the action and the pleasant awareness of the excesses of this perfection, between the disconcerting inventiveness, even the grandeur, of the nobles who disguise themselves and the bursts of laughter inspired by some of their bodily or natural defects or failures, between the amused spectacle of their sensuality little annoyed or casual, the exultation aroused by their militant libertinism, which makes you think, and a kind of unease in front of the cynicism of the few, between the admiration of the talents of actors allowing good tricks, thanks to a beautiful gestural dexterity, and the jubilation inspired by the success of well-born protagonists. The stakes become even higher when it comes to the desire for freedom that the bodies express on stage, especially those of women when violent excesses or hypocritical behavior are represented. So many rich impressions that amplifies the setting in space and in voice by actors who also let hear a kind of mystery of the words. All the shades of drollery, of a comic that we perceive as a little strange, seem to have been experienced by our dramatic poets to bring the nobles to the comic scene and, at one time, to the mixed genre of tragi-comedy
Toulze, Thierry. "Le sacrifice comique de Valère Novarina : étude rhétorique de la période 1975-2010." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010LYO20093/document.
Full textAt once comic, tonic, rhythmic, inventive, chaotic, aesthetic and utterly incomprehensible, the language used by Novarina is here considered on a formal level. Through a panoramic and subtle description of the rhetorical “Novarinian” arsenal, this work intends to establish a comprehensive evaluation of the work the playwright has done to this day. A systematic study of the most recurrent figures of speech amounts to exploring this new domain ; if there is novelty, there is also a subtle reneval of age-old traditions (farce, carnival, mystery) which does not prevent Novarina from being at the very heart of modernity. The plays will be selected and put forward according to the formal aspect studied : variations on biblical themes, critical of the media and other institutions, tribute to Shakespeare, circus, food, emptiness, kénôse, “pantinity”, etc. In sum, this study aims to achieve the following objectives : emphasizing the incredible rhetorical variety found in this plays and highlighting their comic dimension, finding new ways of exploring Novarina works (sport, bestiary, “logodynamic”, science-fiction, Taoism, childhood, Pataphysic, connections with Lewis Carroll), mapping this labyrinthine imagination, setting up a work-structure and marking out the path with pebbles as did Tom Thumb, attempting to define the adjective “Novarinian” and trying to explore the mystery of his sphinx-like work, accepting as our own one of the demiurge’s war cries : “What we cannot speak about, is precisely what we must say”
Ramat, Christine. "La comédie du verbe : le comique et le sacré dans l'œuvre de Valère Novarina." Grenoble 3, 2007. http://accesdistant.bu.univ-paris8.fr:2048/login?url=https://www.dawsonera.com/abstract/9782296228832.
Full textThe work of Valère Novarina is an astonishing, anxious and funny enigmatic literary object. It favours the stage but develops a dramatic art of the excess which cultivates the nonsense, the improper, the incongruity and the absurd. The philosophy makes the metaphysical questions on airs of operetta circulate, the theology turns into derisory gossips. Conversely, the author revives the theological frames of the biblical Word to place the stakes of his theater at the crossroads of the reality and the spiritual, of the human and the inhuman. Of this oscillation is born a grotesque comic, which does not hesitate to recycle the old carnival receipts to propose what the author names a cure of idiocy, which is skilfully insignificant and funny. But this strange gaiety must not deceive. Iconoclastic, the novarinian comedy reinvests what Bataille named the "sacré impur", so as to reconquer the mystery of speech ruined by the technical words of the media. For the novarinian comedy is neither godless, nor non-believer. Far from joining the destructive vein of the modern mockery, it develops inversely an inspired comic, which reconciles, in a singular way, the atheist and the mystic, the Fathers of the Church and the pataphysicians to excite, in negative, the poetic power of the Word. Rooted on M. Bakhtine and W. Kayser theories of grotesque, this thesis has the purpose to study the paradoxical relation which links the laughter and the sacred, the incongruity and the mystic, the meaning and the nonsense, the writing and the Word, through the farcical disguise of the biblical text and the work of the theatrical forms of the comic tradition : circus, operetta, music hall, puppets
Headland, Garry. "Arthur Murphy (1727-1805) : sa contributinon à la tradition comique anglaise de la deuxième moitié du dix-huitième siècle." Bordeaux 3, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007BOR30005.
Full textThe son of a wealthy Dublin merchant, Arthur Murphy was, on the accidental death of his father, precipitated at an early age into an adventure which would take him onto the European continent to study under English Jesuits before entering into an apprenticeship as an accountant in the City of London. Attracted by a taste for literature and under the influence of a group of young « bloods », he abandoned the counting houses of the capital to try his luck firstly as a periodical journalist in the style of Steele and Addison, then briefly as a professional actor and finally as a dramatist. In order to gain financial security or through vocation or both, he enrolled in a law society to become a barrister. From then on, Murphy led a parallel existence divided between the stage and the law courts in search of a respectability which would lead him to become a leading playwright and a successful barrister. The interest of Murphy’s dramatic output, especially in the realm of comedy, is to be found in his contribution to ending the « dearth » in comedy existing between the end of the 1740s and the beginning of the 1760s through the continuation of an « eternal » comic tradition in the face of competition from other dramatic forms such as the pantomime and the so-called « sentimental » comedy, and that as a result of his mastery of both stage-craft and of dramatic theory. Though not possessed of the je ne sais quoi which differentiates his work from that immortalised by the names of Goldsmith and Sheridan, his plays were popular not only before a contemporary audience but beyond into the early nineteenth century and deserve a consideration which places his comic art alongside that of Farquhar and Vanbrugh on the one hand and Goldsmith and Sheridan on the other and which, if we are to believe Samuel Johnson, makes him the leading dramatist of his generation
Reea, Goenda. "Le comique dans la tradition orale et la littérature contemporaine tahitiennes - vision du rire, vision du monde." Thesis, Polynésie française, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016POLF0005.
Full textIn Tahiti, no research has been done about “comic words” in Tahitian language, demonstrating a way to consider the world. The relevance of this study is to reveal a reality in an internal point of view as well as unconscious processes which govern the laughter of and in the Tahitian society. The purpose of the present Thesis is to define the characteristics of Comic in the Tahitian oral tradition and contemporary literature, through the 'ūtē 'ārearea (traditional funny songs), in the context of July’s cultural celebrations in Tahiti, from 1986 to 2014, and through two plays, "Te pe'ape'a hau 'ore o Pāpā Pēnū 'e o Māmā Rōrō" by Maco Tevane (1972, played again in 2011) and “E'ita ïa” by John Mairai (1989). Placing this analysis into a conceptual and methodological as well as a semiolinguistical and psychocritical frameworks, makes us suppose that it is possible to abstract, by the superposition of the texts from the corpus of research, a substratum made of invariables, which contribute to the meaning of words
Al, Iftaihat Mareim. "Le comique problématique dans l'œuvre d'Eugène Ionesco." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LYO20058.
Full textEugene Ionesco is a "new classic" which is both dramatic break with the traditional drama and progress on it, the ionesco's dramatic is so labyrinthine. The components of this dramatic are labyrinthine: the dramatic structure, personages, language, time and space. This total maze leads to the utter nonsense of indecision and imbalance. To consider this absurdity, the ionescien man uses the revolt, indifference and dreams, but he still faces his tragic condition of a rootless wanderer or goals. He is left while laughing, hence the birth of a comic in search of his identity. This is the comic problematic of Eugene Ionesco. The problematic of this comic appearance is due to the following points: first, his birth in a labyrinthine environment creates the absurd makes uncertain even the humanity of man. Second, this new comic inspired by the classic Molière comic, but its essence is not to instruct, correct or pleasing but to reflect. Thirdly, the comic reveals the tragic condition of man by scenes that increase anxiety rather than dissipate. Therefore, this problematic is a comic or tragic compared to or relative to laughter becomes, in turn, an effect of tragedy. It is for this reason that this comic remains open to many assumptions even of its nonexistence
Carreau, Isabelle. "Ni simple ni sot : la "Lustige Person" dans la comédie viennoise (1724-1818)." Paris 4, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA040071.
Full textPetizon-Petit, Florence. "De l'Opéra-Comique russe : naissance et développement en Russie au cours du XVIIIème siècle." Paris, INALCO, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999INAL0007.
Full textAfter speaking about the circumstances and conditions of instauring theatre and music in Russia during the XVIII century, we have drawn our attention to the introduction of comical opera in Russia and its development right through this century. This influence started in Italy and in France bringing immediately a positive result from the Russian public, where by Russian comical opera takes off with success from 1770 with "Anjta" by the librettist Popov and "Rozana and Ljubim" by Nikolev and Kerzelli. His life lasted until the end of the XVIII century. While studying a few of the most outstanding Operas, we can see the importance of folk songs in comical Russian Opera. Librettists and Russian composers take ideas from recently published commections of tales or folk songs, such as those by Trutovskij, or by L'vov and Prač. We study for example "The Miller as Wizard, Deceiver and Marriage-Broker" by Ablesimov and Sokolovskij, speaking of customs in the country. Matinskij and Pas̆kevic̆ are taking us to "The St Petersburg Bazaar" where we attend the ceremony of the young woman who takes one's leave of her set of friends. It's a genuine living picture of Russian customs of this period. Lastly we analyse the comical Opera "The relay coachmen" written by Fomin from the collection of folk songs by L'vov. The comical Russian Opera might have had its musical weaknesses, but however we feel very ethno-sociological enjoyable witness. Our study on Russian music finishes with the unique Russian melodrama "Orphée and Eurydice" by Fomin on a libretto of Knjaz̆nin. Work of first importance of the most talented and famous composer of his generation, this melodrama also introduces the beginning of Russian symphonic music
Marion-Andrès, Claudine. "Etude sur la dramaturgie comique dans le premier théâtre de Lope de Vega : du rire des personnages au rire des spectateurs (1588-1595)." Rouen, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013ROUEL007.
Full textAt the crucial time when the comedia started, the laughter of Lope was one of the pillars of dramatic construction. In this survey of the dramatic art of the comic in the early theatre of Lope, we will consider the causes and consequences of laughter, the ways that it appeared, the characters who convey it and those who are subjected to it. The mechanisms of the comic brought into play are analysed so as to highlight the mysterious and complex bond that may unite the audience, the playwright and the character embodied by the actor. We will thus endeavour to understand how Lope ritualizes laughter and puts it at the core of a shared social act, making a success of it. The first chapter devoted to the laughter of the characters emphasizes the essential part that they play in the structure of the play itself and the working-out of its meaning. In the second chapter, we will be interested in a form of laughter peculiar to the playwright, based upon sharing, which is infectious, erotic, improper and irreverent. We will show how the comedia specifically associates laughter and solemnity and from one cue to another, upsets and bullies the audience. This observation leads us in chapter three, to broach the relationship between laughter and politics. In chapter four, the importance given to spaces representing the people in their spontaneity, their immediate lives reinforces the harmony within the corral and may enable to superimpose the laughter of the characters on the laughter of the audience. In chapter five, we will demonstrate that the laughter is doubled-sided – centripetal as well as centrifugal – and can impose itself through revisited symbols. In the last chapter, we will eventually study the games that associate controled improvisations and dramatic stakes at key-moments
Sajaloli, Cécile. "Le Théâtre-Italien et la société parisienne (1838-1879)." Paris 1, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988PA010524.
Full textBranger, Jean-Christophe. "Manon de Massenet, ou le crépuscule de l'opéra-comique : contribution à l'étude des principes formels dans le théâtre lyrique français du XIXe siècle." Paris 4, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA040281.
Full textCreated on 19 January 1884, Manon is an outstanding piece of work among those produced by Massenet as well as, more generally, in the history of opera. It is in this opera that the composer developed the form which, to diverse degrees, was to be the framework of his later works and that other composers, like Puccini, took up. Manon was, indeed, one of the first operas which form offered an alternative to Wagner’s works even though it is inspired by them: Massenet kept the traditional vocal forms but unified them with recurring themes. Their structure are reminiscent of the Wagnerian style as well as of the composition principles of Grétry, Meyerbeer or Gounod. On this account, Manon belongs to a leading trend of research in the 1880's musical creation. But Massenet stood as a pioneer when he considered spoken language as a key dramatic pattern. He kept spoken dialogues - one of the essential characteristics of opera comique - but underlined them with musical accompaniment. This principle takes up a device called melodrama. Invented by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, but inspired by antique tragedy, that device enabled Massenet not only to rediscover, through the genre of opera comique, the bases of French culture, but also to distinguish himself from Wagner and Verdi, who never showed real interest in melodrama. In Manon, what Massenet anticipated above all were the preoccupations of 20th century opera composers, such as berg, who put spoken dialogues and singing on the same level
Inacio, Denise Scandarolli 1982. "Cenas esquecidas ou Vaudeville, ópera-comique e a transformação do teatro no Rio de Janeiro, dos anos de 1840 = Scénes négligés ou Vaudeville, ópera-comique et la transformation du théâtre à Rio de Janeiro dnas les annéss 1840." [s.n.], 2013. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/280278.
Full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
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Resumo: Nos anos de 1840, chegaram ao Rio de Janeiro duas companhias francesas de teatro, se instalaram em teatros da corte e começaram a apresentar um repertório bastante específico, vaudevilles e opéra-comiques. É da Compagnie Dramatique Française e da Compagnie Lyrique Française que esta tese vai se ocupar. Apesar de haver um verdadeiro silêncio sobre a trajetória desses dois grupos de artistas, o impacto que sua atuação causou nas práticas teatrais da corte brasileira é fundamental no processo de desenvolvimento de vários eixos ligados a essa arte, como a crítica artística, os regimentos das salas de espetáculos, o discurso que buscava a estruturação de um teatro nacional, a censura, o confronto com os significados do "civilizado" e dos valores franceses, etc. Dessa forma, compreender os mecanismos de atuação desses artistas franceses no Rio de Janeiro e as relações que eles estabeleceram entre as diversas instâncias ligadas à arte, possibilita entender os processos de formação cultural da corte e os diálogos estabelecidos com a arte francesa, os quais envolvem muito mais o estranhamento que o reconhecimento
Abstract: In the 1840s, the French theater companies Compagnie Française Dramatique, and Compagnie Française Lyrique arrived in Rio de Janeiro. They settled in the Brazilian court with a specific repertoire composed mostly by vaudeville and opéra-comiques, and even though little was known about the story of these two group, their actions impacted theatrical practices of the court. This thesis addresses the story of these French companies. They were fundamental in the development of multiple axes, and remarkably connected with regiments of spectacle rooms, artistic criticism, and censorship, to structure a national theater and confronted with the meanings of "civilized" and French values. One can therefore understand the cultural dialogues established with French art by the mechanisms of action of these artists in Rio de Janeiro, and the relationships established among the different entities related to the Art
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Porto, San Martin Isabelle. "De l'opéra-comique à la zarzuela : modalités et enjeux d'un transfert sur la scène madrilène (1849-1856)." Thesis, Tours, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013TOUR2008.
Full textZarzuela is a Spanish lyrical genre which was born in the 17th century and experienced a revival from 1849 on; Indeed, a generation of composers wished to give it a national dimension. The most important ones are Francisco Asenjo Barbieri, Joaquín Gaztambide, Cristóbal Oudrid, Rafael Hernando, José Inzenga and to a certain extent Emilio Arrieta; This dissertation analyses the way some musicians and authors constructed the repertoire which, paradoxically, even though it was supposed to be Spanish, was, in certain ways, inspired by the French lyrical stage and more particularly by comic opera. The transfer occurs through the literary, musical, human and even cultural dimensions. Consequently, what is discussed here is the issue of influences, their characteristics and challenges as the basis for a thorough analysis illustrated by the links between emblematic works on the two sides of the boarder
Kim, Svetlana. "L’Opéra-comique en Russie dans le dernier tiers du XVIIIe siècle : présence et influence du modèle français." Thesis, Lyon, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LYSE2064.
Full textIn the late 18th century there was an interesting phenomenon in the musical life in Russia : the rise of the genre of the French comic opera. Indeed, during the last quarter of the 18th century this kind of opera invaded theatrical scenes–from the popular theatre to the imperial court. Thus, according to different sources, between 1764 and 1800, approximately 100 opéras-comiques written by French composers, notably those by Duni, Grétry, Dalayrac, Monsigny, Dezède, Philidor were successfully represented there. Why did this new genre become so popular in Russia at this time? What sociocultural premises aroused the public interest of a deeply feudal country for Enlightenment ideas; ideas that led to the realistic representation of strong feelings, even sufferings of the third estate?The constant presence of French works on Russian stages predetermined the emergence of the first Russian comic operas. Although they did not escape the Italian opera buffa influence, played extensively on Russian stages, these first national comic operas highlighted specific French features, borrowed by some Russian composers. Without forgetting the Italian influence, it seems important to us to study the determining role of the French comic opera, taken as a model by composers such as Pashkevich, Fomin and Sokolovsky. So, it will be asked : how did these composers use the Frenchmodel and adapt it to the conditions and mentality of their country? In addition to the historical and socio-cultural conditions observing, who governed the new opera genre emergence in the eighteenth century Russia, we will compare the most remarkable Russian comic operas with their French predecessors at the formal, musical and poetic levels
Katagi, Tomotoshi. "Comédies des comédiens et théâtre autoréflexif : 1633-1647." Paris 3, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1989PA030081.
Full textThroughout a study of the "comedies des comediens" on the early seventeenth century's french stage, we try to show their social and esthetical implications
Bassène, Ignace. "Le Tragique dans l'oeuvre d' Eugène Ionesco." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014AIXM3002.
Full textIf some people think that the tragedy died, the tragic as for him rest an always current theatrical category. At Eugène Ionesco, playwright of the second half of the XXth century, we find the sense (direction) of the tragic in its works even if this one differs from the antique time (period).The ionescien tragic is inspired on a vision of the world fundamentally absurd. So, following the example of his contemporaries as Samuel Beckett for example, Eugène Ionesco proposes a tragic humble (cf. Games (sets) of massacre: tragic = absence of outcome (exit)), a tragic political in the measure of the upheavals of the century (cf. Rhinoceros, King is dying, Macbett, etc.). On the place (square) of the heroes fighters, we have at Ionesco the marionettes which gesture, objects which proliferate (cf. Chairs); a human language which is questioned (implicated) (cf. The bald Opera singer "tragedy of the language"). The theater of Eugène Ionesco arises rather from the crisis of the humanism
Paringaux, Céline. "Les autres langues en scène dans la comédie française (1650-1725)." Thesis, Artois, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013ARTO0006.
Full textThis thesis deals with the other languages that were spoken on stage in French comedies from 1650 to 1725; by this we mean to study the various languages that were included such as foreign languages (Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Swiss, German, Polish, Russian, Arabic, Turkish, African, Lingua Franca), dialects (Occitan, Basque, Picard, Francilien), but also dead languages (Latin and Greek), as well as imaginary ones. We will also study other ways of speaking that are unique to a specific group, such as the language of learning used by doctors, men of the law, and pedants. We will study the links between this plurality of languages found in classical theatre and the approach to the French language of that time: there was a wish for a ‘beautiful’ and ‘pure’ language, which was the linguistic counterpart of the dream of a great nation. Next we ask ourselves in what way did the other languages interact with this linguistic approach – and to what extent their being used on stage was the sign that playwrights put language at the heart of ‘classical’ honesty. How did these different sorts of speech, which were intended both to entertain and to educate, contribute to the rise of a highly respected comic genre ? We will first look into the interactions between these other languages and the theoretical approach to the French language, before looking into the pragmatic issues at stake. Lastly, we will study how, at the beginning of the Enlightenment, the use of these different languages impacted the evolution of the comic genre, and how this phenomenon evolved as it was faced with the competition of both street performances held in funfairs and of the Italian theatre
Piqueux, Alexa. "Le corps comique. Représentations et perceptions du corps dans la comédie grecque ancienne et moyenne (étude littéraire et iconographique)." Thesis, Paris 4, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA040273.
Full textAnalysis of the body provides an effective means of capturing comic performances in classical Athens and Magna Graecia. Textual and iconographic sources ought to be considered together to shed light upon the staging of the comic body as it was perceived and imagined. In particular, the conclusions of this work are based upon the comparison of Greek comedies from the 5th and 4th centuries B.C. and South-Italian vase-paintings of comic subjects. The first chapter presents the two corpuses and the questions raised by their comparison. Chapter two describes the material characteristics of the comic costume. The third and fourth chapters focus on the semiotics of the costume ; the signs of the genre are treated first, followed by a discussion of the social and moral characterization of the personages. The final chapter pertains to the dramatic function of the comic gesture
Pradère-Ascione, Clémentine. "La fantaisie noire dans la fiction en prose de Boris Vian (Romans, nouvelles, pièce de théâtre)." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015USPCA076.
Full textBoris Vian's literary work calls to mind by the feelings it arouses. For a long time it nevertheless remained unknown concealed by its author's protean talents. Boris Vian, whose texts were mostly published posthumously, wasn't at the beginning seen as a writer to finally get in the Pléiade in 2010, 51 years after his death. To analyse his work it appears natural to consider the idea of fantasy. The fictional world he created remains a fantasist one where imagination and inventiveness prevail. Yet, opposing worlds get mixed up: fairy and cruelty, casualness and anxiety, indifference and seriousness, fantasy and reality. Considering only the fictional texts in prose (novels, short stories and plays) we questionned the legitimity of the fantasy notion. Does its obviousness withstand a further analysis? This questioning drove us to the idea of 'fantaisie noire'. Sometimes magical, incredible, linguistic, comical or parodic, the fantasy collides with the inwardness of the characters and with an anxiety that contaminates both beings and objects. The fantasy defers to an oppresive world where the dream reveals itself in all its power. The come back to fantasy is then only possible by comical detachments and a linguistic inventiveness that contributes to let the work opened
Mandon, Natalie. "Poétique du comique dans le théâtre de William Congreve : 1670-1729 : The old batchelour, 1693, The double-dealer, 1693, Love for love, 1695, The way of the world, 1700." Lyon 3, 2004. https://scd-resnum.univ-lyon3.fr/in/theses/2004_in_mandon_n.pdf.
Full textCette thèse vise à une réévaluation de la poétique du comique telle que la définit le dramaturge anglais William Congreve (1670-1729) et telle qu'elle est reflétée dans ses quatre comédies. Sont étudiés le contexte social et théâtral ainsi que le rapport qu'entretient le théâtre avec la société londonienne à la fin du dix-septième siècle. Si le comique de Congreve se nourrit des particularités de la société à laquelle il est destiné, l'écriture est façonnée par une volonté de concilier des idéaux artistiques propres au dramaturge et les contraintes du genre. Elle tend vers une forme nouvelle. La façon dont Congreve exploite son héritage théâtral et l'utilisation qu'il réserve aux procédés propres au théâtre comique font aussi apparaître la spécificité de sa démarche. De cette étude émerge la prépondérance d'un comique qui transcende l'univers de la comédie : la mise en scène du verbe et du discours sur le monde permet à l'œuvre de s'affranchir des limites du théâtre de la Restauration
Poulet, Françoise. "L'extravagance : enjeux critiques des représentations d'une notion dans le théâtre et le roman du XVIIe siècle (1623-1666)." Thesis, Poitiers, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012POIT5020/document.
Full textThe purpose of our research is to define extravagance by looking at this notion in context when it experienced its first literary successes, that is from 1623 (with L'Histoire comique de Francion by Sorel) to 1666 (Le Misanthrope by Molière and Le Roman bourgeois by Furetière). We therefore aim at showing how it illustrated sociocultural, literary and esthetical issues in the early seventeenth century. Our research is carried along pluridisciplinary lines: extravagance deals at the same time with medicine, the history of cures and the imprisonment of the insane and the philosophical question of reversible links between madness and wisdom, and this is why I am studying these fields while analysing literary representations of madness. The extravagant's disorder disturbs his imagination without really impairing his understanding. Uncontrolled knowledge and noxious readings, which are often novels, are responsible for his madness. Unlike the fool, his mind is not empty, but it blurs the way in which he perceives the world. Such mental confusion also makes him move away from accepted social behaviours. As opposed to the model of the honest man as defined by treatises of courtesy, the extravagant man cannot abide by proprieties and polite codes. This perspective leads me to formulate a new interpretation of the comic characters we can find in comedies and comic novels from the 1620-1660 era, such as the braggart, the pedant, the countryman, and so on
Pasquet, Laetitia. "Le rire de l’horreur sur la scène anglaise contemporaine : vers une nouvelle poétique de la comédie ?" Thesis, Paris 4, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA040087.
Full textParadoxical as it may be, laughing at horror is a major feature of the contemporary theatrical experience. It emerges from a shift in the comic mode which now expresses violence instead of muffling it. In the aftermath of the abolition of censorship in the United Kingdom (1968), this comic mode has held a mirror up to society’s fears and horror has been staged in a more and more naturalistic way, so as to make the audience laugh while unsettling them, questioning the very position of the spectators. However, in a converse and even more disturbing way, humour has become a way to appal them, subduing horror instead of underlining it and thereby deeply questioning them on the humanity of laughter. Those aesthetic shifts take part in a general process of undermining comedy’s humanistic optimistic ideology; even though some subgenres (namely farce, city comedy, comedy of manners or parody) easily stage horrible scenes, comedy is structurally defaced when it includes an ontology of horror, when its shape does not express progress but arbitrariness and when its ending is explicitly unhappy. Playing on the structure of comedy to the point of defacing it, horror becomes a poetic principle that renews the genre and especially the comic archetypes, making them dreadful instead of harmless. It is indeed tragedy’s failure that becomes the measure of this renewal of comedy, as laughter gets stifled by the tragic consciousness that tinges many laughs with guilt, caused by the way tragic values are ridiculed and tragic absoluteness belittled by humour. In those conditions, laughing turns into a means for the spectator to surreptitiously feel the power of tragic emotions; the experience redefines catharsis, no longer a purification of emotions but a new way to reach their humanising power
Belmonte, Sophie. "La réception de Rossini au théâtre-italien de 1830 à 1878 : causes et manifestations d'un déclin." Paris, EHESS, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010EHES0028.
Full textAfter a hegemony period in the 1820s in Paris, Rossini's works are maintained in the repertoire of the "Théâtre-Italien" alongside other lyrical aesthetics until the closure of the"Ventadour" hall in 1878. Despite their bias, the press reviews report on performances and represent incontrovertible sources to understand how this art is perceived by an era. Through extensive research, we tried to identify the various matters which arise around the production of Rossini, at the perception and representation level. Several aspects emerge from the chronics and highlight the way of the reception of these operas. We will therefore focus on how these works from 1830 to 1878 had been received as weIl as on the parameters on which this reception depended. The work, the libretto and the piace reserved to the Rossini's repertoire at the "Théâtre-Italien" are apprehended differently according to the different periods and different critics. Furthermore, the performance comments allow to understand ti). E main role of the singers and their ability to maintain the bel canto despite the aesthetic imperatives of romanticism which generate a new view of the master's works and create some new expectations. We tried to understand how the operas resist to time and what are the mechanisms involved in their graduaI decline, the press aI\d the public being both actors and witnesses of this phenomenon
Dang, Benjamin. "Bouffons des temps modernes : figures de morosophes dans les oeuvres théâtrales d'Alfred Jarry, Michel de Ghelderode, Samuel Beckett, Roland Dubillard & Alain Badiou." Thesis, Normandie, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020NORMC013.
Full textEven if jesters are very popular characters, the very concept barely exists in critical vocabulary. Jesters, which play an important role in every society, can be defined throughout the history of madness, implicating a sociological and anthropological approach, as well as throughout the history of theater, located at the cross-section of arts and literature. This research sheds light on the characteristics and functions of jesters in the 20th century. The 20th century was a post-metaphysical age marked by two significant transformations. First, a “crisis of purpose” defined by Jean-François Mattéi as a loss of meaning in life. Since jesters invite us into a socio-political and a metaphysical critique, it only makes sense to question their role in that matter. Secondly, the 20th century was home to a revolution in drama, seen through linguistic experimentations, the introduction of space in theatrical theory and practice, and the exploitation of new electrical technologies that advanced the art of scenography. As natural explorers of new aesthetic forms, jesters had a great role to play in this revolution. This research questions the use of jesters in the modern times, showing how they echo the dramatic revolution, and therefore help society to overcome the crisis of purpose. The corpus is a selection of theatrical works from Alfred Jarry, Michel de Ghelderode, Samuel Beckett, Roland Dubillard and Alain Badiou. The period of investigation stretches from 1896, the year in which Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi premiered, to 2018, marked by the debut of the final segment of Alain Badiou’s saga Ahmed. This study is primarily based on textual analysis, relying heavily on stage performances documented through interviews and press articles. The first section deals with the history of jesters, from Antiquity to the beginning of the 20th century, in order to understand their role in modernity, in contrast. It allows us, in the second part, to show how jesters reappropriated symbolic attributes in modern times, under the form of a typology. The third part returns to the fundamentals of madness, insisting on linguistic creativity and on a complex form of humour, a mix of burlesque and tragic effects. Only with this understanding of jesters can we begin to uncover how they came to be named “morosophs”, meaning “wise fools”, and how they can provide solutions to the crises of modern times
Obert, Julie. "Les traductions françaises de Die Entführung aus dem Serail et Die Zauberflöte de W. A. Mozart sur les scènes parisiennes de 1798 à 1954." Thesis, Tours, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013TOUR2023.
Full textThe two German operas of Mozart, Die Entführung aus dem Serail and Die Zauberflöte were performed primarily in French from the end of the 18th century until the middle of the 20th century. Cultural conventions and market conditions required that the libretti of German operas be translated into French. In consequence, translation was a vital element in the diffusion of Mozart’s operatic corpus in France. This dissertation is the first to focus on all four sequential translations of Die Entführung aus dem Serail and the five of Die Zauberflöte, performed in Paris between 1798 and 1954. Based on a number of unpublished manuscripts and unknown publications, this scholarly study of the process of translation discloses the transformations of the original works into new versions of Mozart’s operas, not only in the libretti but also in the music. What matters most is to understand how these translations were made and how they evolved over time, as well as exploring the way translators approached the particular difficulties presented by the need to translate texts meant to be sung. What we see is not only a set of changes in the nature of translations, but also a shift in the professional and popular understanding of what constitutes a work of art. Translation both transmitted and framed the meanings of Mozart’s operas at the same time as they made them available to the French musical world. In this context we can see how fruitful it is to braid together musicological research and the insights of literary scholarship in German studies
In Frankreich wurden Mozarts Opern vom Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts bis in die zweite Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts hinein in erster Linie auf Französisch aufgeführt. Um kulturellen Konventionen Genüge zu tun und Markttauglichkeit zu sichern, mussten deutsche Opernlibretti ins Französische übertragen werden, damit das Publikum die Werke verstehen konnte. Folglich waren Übersetzungen eine unumgängliche Voraussetzung für die Verbreitung von Mozarts Opernschaffen in Frankreich. Die vorliegende Dissertation untersucht zum ersten Mal alle Übersetzungen der beiden bekanntesten deutschsprachigen Opern Mozarts, Die Entführung aus dem Serail und Die Zauberflöte, die zwischen 1798 und 1954 auf Pariser Bühnen zu hören und zu sehen waren. Die Studie zieht eine Reihe unveröffentlichter Handschriften und in Vergessenheit geratener Veröffentlichungen heran und zeigt, dass die Übersetzer nicht nur am Text, sondern auch an der Musik Veränderungen vornahmen, die die neuen Fassungen gleichsam zu eigenständigen Werken machten. Das vorrangige Ziel der Arbeit besteht darin zu verstehen, wie die jeweilige Gestaltung der Übersetzungen zustande kam, und wie sie sich im Lauf der Zeit entwickelten. Dabei wird nicht nur ein Wandel in der Übersetzungsart festgestellt: vielmehr wird auch sichtbar, dass sich bei den Übersetzern wie beim Publikum die Auffassung verändert von dem, was ein Kunstwerk ist, und wie man mit ihm umgehen sollte. Indem sie Mozarts Opern der französischen Musikwelt zugänglich machten, bestimmten die Übertragungen das Verständnis der Werke mit, so dass sie aufschlussreiche Quellen zur französischen Mozart-Rezeption darstellen. Um diesen Verschiebungen und wechselseitigen Wirkungen nachzugehen, werden die Methoden der Übersetzungskritik mit den Grundlagen historischmusikwissenschaftlicher Forschung zusammengeführt
Manenti-Ronzeaud, Claudia. "Édition de HARNALI, N, I, ni OH ! QU'NENNI : Les parodies d'Hernani sur les scènes des théâtres secondaires en 1830." Thesis, Aix-Marseille 1, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011AIX10113.
Full textThe study of procedures used in parodies of Hernani in 1830, together with an edition of manuscripts of Harnali, N, I, ni and Oh! Qu’Nenni, of censors’ reports, and of different printed versions, show that parodies of Hernani are at the same time informed by the play that serves as an initial model and by cultural intertexts with which they establish a dialogue. Performance conventions of the time, as well as public taste, create a paradoxical situation in which parodies act as subversive imitation in the service of a norm. Indeed, parodic deconstruction becomes a source of construction of plays which, pointing out the incoherencies and improbabilities in Hernani, create their place in a type of performance that is unique to them. Beyond simple criticism, satire, or imitation of an earlier play through style, intertextuality, and genre, parodies also reflect an image of the context of the times and of plays performed on secondary theatres. These parodies are thus plays in their own right, a part of contemporary style of acting and of the use of airs and refrains in Parisian secondary theatres in 1830
Burtin, Tatiana. "Figures de l’avarice et de l’usure dans les comédies : The Merchant of Venice de Shakespeare, Volpone de Jonson et L’Avare de Molière." Thesis, Paris 10, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA100136/document.
Full textThe emergence of a capitalist ‘spirit’ (Weber) in England and France at the turn of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries played a leading role in reconfiguring the relation between avaritia and cupiditas which determine the whole semantic field of usury and interest. This thesis postulates that this evolution is perceptible in French and British comedy at that time, in particular for some of the playwrights who staged miserly characters imprinted in our collective imagination. Starting from a comic type as common in Greek and Roman drama as it was in the well-established religious canon in the Christian West, a new understanding of money as object and as sign leads to the construction of a truly modern figure of avarice.Shylock, Volpone (Mosca) and Harpagon, hang on to a almost divine idea of gold and the more or less known world of money, medium they think they control through their treasure, and which is about to become the universal equivalent of any good. Those characters fit perfectly into this modern dynamic of economic, cultural and social exchanges, but they also contribute, with their strictly usurious speech, to its depreciation. Their entourage tries to tame this « lability » of values (Simmel) generated by the economy of the usurer-miser to a new order – a cosmic, ethical or political order. Conflicts are resolved by a court of law, external discriminatory authority and pretext for the mise-en-abyme of social judgment. The analysis of these denouements allows one to understand the work of each author in the comic form and function, through the text, the genres, or an aesthetic of space. It shows how much each author strived to value the contribution of his art to the public, in a time of socio-economic crisis
Poirson, Martial. "Comédie et économie : argent, moral et intérêt dans les formes comiques du théâtre français (1673-1789)." Paris 10, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA100146.
Full textDi, Profio Alessandro. "L'opera buffa à Paris : le cas du Théâtre de Monsieur et du Théâtre Feydeau (1789-1792)." Tours, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999TOUR2022.
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