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Lochert, Véronique. "L'écriture du spectacle : formes et fonctions des didascalies dans le théâtre européen des XVIe et XVIIe siècles." Paris 4, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA040201.
Full textThis study investigates the modes of writing and reading performance in the dramatic text through the forms and functions of stage directions and through their variations in France, Italy, Spain and England, from the sixteenth to the seventeenth century. It analyses the development of a specific notation of performance in the practices of playwrights, actors and editors, which are brought into light by the theory of theatre. Stage direction is approached in its double function, serving both performance and reading, in relation with style and typography which ensure its efficiency for actors as well as for readers. Whether redundant or complementary, stage direction plays an essential role in the economy of dramatic dialogue and the diversity of its uses in Europe reveals the status of dramatic text in the different national aesthetics
Dautrey, Jehanne. "Dispositifs musicaux et dispositifs de pensée à l'âge classique : sensation et idée confuse à l'œuvre dans le théâtre lyrique du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle." Lille 3, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005LIL30018.
Full textCormouls-Houlés, Sylvie. "Le théâtre religieux de langue française (1550-1630) : dramaturgie et thématique." Paris 3, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA030045.
Full textThe Renaissance brought a new beginning to dramatic work. With it came new genres and new subject matter that were inspired by those from antiquity. Religion as a theme did not disappear, but rather was adapted. This study wants to uncover these religious plays. This body of work is composed of many plays, authors and subjects but also of many religious thinkings. Religious theater during the Renaissance regularly used unearthly characters or actions : they became direct intermediaries for the hands of God. God's intervention was also felt through the character of the "Chosen One" who became the agent of religious morality. When his faith was tested, the "Chosen One's" reactions set the example for the public who emulated such religious figures. This study emphasizes these wrongly-forgotten plays and the richness from a dramatic, theological and political point of view, thus revealing an age when France tore itself apart over a divergence of opinion on identical values
Marciak, Dorothée. "La place du prince : perspective et pouvoir dans le théâtre des Médicis : Florence 1539-1600." Paris, EHESS, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001EHES0099.
Full textBouhaïk-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
Jouenne, Tatiana. "Le théâtre des mystères à Rouen (XVe-XVIe siècles)." Rouen, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016ROUEL042.
Full textThis study is about the theatre in Rouen, especially the mystery plays, during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. At that time, the city of Rouen was in development, ran by powerful burghers allied to an omnipresent archdiocese in the province of Normandy. They played an important part in the cultural life of the city, staging, financing or supporting performances. Of course, we should not omit the crucial role of charitable confraternities that organized and staged most mystery plays. I have chosen to focus this study on mystery plays. First, mystery plays are regularly performed in Rouen during this period, that constitute its peaks. Secondly, there is no recent study on Rouen mystery plays. Indeed, it is important to raise the question of organizational arrangements, but also about the places where the performances were staged (churches, cemeteries, public places or monasteries). In addition, many performances like the Passion or the mystery play of St. Romain, staged in 1476, needed to be studied. Actually, the mystery play of St. Romain benefits from a rich documentation in the archdiocese’s archives, but it has never been really analyzed yet. The objective of this study is not to make a list of all mystery plays staged in Rouen (this has already be done by Hippolyte Gosselin and Louis Petit de Julleville despite some errors), but analyzing the sources, to search for what performances are actually attested, and to place this events in both city and society
Louvat-Molozay, Bénédicte. "Poétique de l'introduction musicale : le statut de la musique dans le théâtre français entre 1550 et 1680." Paris 4, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA040400.
Full textThis dissertation aims at articulating a theoretical reflection on the status of music in French theatre with an analysis of the practices of musical insertion in drama from the renaissance to the creation of the Comédie-Francaise. Because it depends on the definition of theatre as a spectacle and concerns all dramatic genres, the question of music is marginalized by the theoreticians. The second part of this study propounds therefore a poetics of musical introduction in relation to a poetics of the dramatic genres : in the renaissance and throughout the first third of the seventeenth century, the presence of music in humanist tragedies, protestant drama and dramatic pastorals is linked to the conception of a lyrical theatre, which postulates a kind of union between theatre and poetry. From the 1630s, music is submitted to the requirements of action. The second half of the seventeenth century is then characterized by a reflection on the conditions of possibility for a theatre in music to exist, and by a resistance to the Italian model: against it, the “tragédie à machines” and the “comédie-ballet” offer a model of total spectacle, which favors alternation over simultaneity. The dramatic pastoral evolves towards an operatic pastoral, while sacred drama and the comedy remain faithful to the pattern of theatre with music
Guinle, Francis. "Accords parfaits : les rapports entre la musique et le théâtre de l'avènement des Tudors au début de la carrière de Shakespeare, c. 1485-1592." Paris 7, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986PA070138.
Full textThe evolution of drama in England in the 16th century is linked to the social, political and religious evolution. Drama evolves from well-established forms and structures. Under the influence of classical drama, the French farce and Italian comedy, it integrates new elements, but also retains the essential components of its own native traditions, adapting them to the new modes and conditions of performance met by the adult professional actors and the children's troupes. The use of the vernacular and the constant presence of music with well-defined functions are permanent aspects of this drama. Through established patterns and conventions, the musical element is closely linked to the structure and themes of the plays. It is analyzed here in its context throughout the repertoire of adult and children's troupes. The concept of a distortion and misappropriation of celestial harmony by the vices of the moral plays constitutes a basic element in the use and function of music, and in particular some forms of songs often associated with servants, pages, and in general low characters in pre-shakespearean court comedies
Coulomb, Olivia. "Stases et statues : l’art de l’immobile dans le théâtre élisabéthain et jacobéen." Thesis, Université Clermont Auvergne (2017-2020), 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017CLFAL004/document.
Full textThe art of statuary in the Elizabethan and Jacobean era has suffered from the repercussions of several centuries of political and religious instability. However, early modern England proved particularly interested in, if not totally fascinated by, Italian and Flemish artists famous for their artistic and theoretical approach to sculpture. Although many studies have already been made on painting and the problematic place of images in Reformation England, only a few books have focused on three-dimensional images and on their reception.My dissertation therefore seeks to analyze the political, religious and cultural context in which the statues were inscribed at the time, on the one hand, and to precisely reassess the ways in which they appeared on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage, on the other hand.First, I pay attention to the historical events and texts in which statues have had a prominent place, taking into account the legal aspect related to the production of early modern images. This leads me to study from a more literary perspective major plays from the Shakespearean corpus such as Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and The Winter's Tale. Finally, I seek to highlight the art of stasis and statuary in the Jacobean drama by focusing on the moments of immobility and petrification of the characters in George Chapman’s Bussy d’Ambois, John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi, and Thomas Middleton’s A Game at Chess.The double objective of this thesis is, in fine, to compare the impact of the statue and its representations on stage on two different types of audience both belonging to the early modern era (one Elizabethan, the other Jacobean), and to prove the importance of the statuary within the dramatic universe of Shakespeare and his contemporaries
Thibault, Gaëlle. "Stratégies de l'image dans les cycles religieux XVème-XVIème siècles : Etude de quelques scènes liminaires." Tours, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003TOUR2013.
Full textFouassier, Frédérique. "Représentations de la transgression sexuelle féminine dans le théâtre anglais de la Renaissance." Tours, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005TOUR2005.
Full textGoursolas, Marie-Hélène. "« La société des idolâtres ». L’idolâtrie dans la polémique contre le théâtre en France et en Angleterre, XVIe-XVIIe siècles." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020SORUL108.
Full textThis thesis considers the meaning and scope of idolatry in the french and english polemics against the stage in the 16th and 17th centuries. Because the condemnations of the early Church Fathers were aimed at spectacles closely related to pagan worship, the argument of idolatry is discussed in debates on the status of these authorities in the modern controversy. It questions the evolution of the stage and the possibility of its "conversion" to Christianity. Idolatry also supports the assimilation of the theatre to a "devil's church", as it has been understood as a deviation of divine worship to its benefit. It echoes the religious controversies of the time: the Puritan or Calvinist association of theatre and papism, as well as the Augustinian condemnation of passions, find in the idea of idolatry a significant rhetorical motif. Articulating discourse analysis and the history of ideas, this study follows the ramifications of a grievance that combines the Platonic disqualification of illusion with the Biblical condemnation of vanity. It illustrates the propensity of polemics to redirect arguments that it seems to repeat. An examination of plays that stage idolatry (whether amorous or religious) also shows the dramatic interest of this theme, whereby theatre can face the attacks launched toward it
Tin, Louis-Georges. "Tragédie et politique en France au XVIe siècle." Paris 10, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA100138.
Full textThe rebirth of tragedy in Renaissance France is linked to two phenomena: first, humanists eager to discover the writings of Antiquity; second, civil wars leading to the widespread impression that the kingdom's entire political life was itself a tragedy. Thus, new dramatists felt that in dealing with the past, they also dealt with the present. The political engagement of French tragedies in the 16th century is quite conspicuous, but after the Wars of Religion, the plays tend to express a sort of political consensus: they become less radical and are slowly replaced by pastoral, elegiac or courtly tragedies. On the whole this reflection is a contribution to the history of French Tragedy. It restores some of the elements missing from histories of the genre (tragedy during medieval times, during and after the Wars of Religion) and explains the political implications of the various Jewish, Greek, Roman or French tragedies written during the Renaissance
Sabatier, Armelle. "Mort et résurrection dans le théâtre élisabéthain et jacobéen." Paris 10, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA100153.
Full textResurrection lies at the heart of Christianity – it epitomizes the triumph over death and symbolizes the hope for eternal life. Despite underlying changes, the varied representations of death and resurrection are imbued with medieval patterns in early modern England. Elizabethan and Jacobean drama integrates the different funerary codes. Drama is also aware of its power of resurrection in so far as it brings the past back to life. Before the final reunion of the body and soul, resurrection is linked to death. English Renaissance drama explores all the aspects of the first resurrection and questions the meaning of all the rituals celebrating the passage from life to death and preserving memory. Apparent death and false resurrections become a comical pattern in Jacobean comedies. The return to life in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale praises the dramatist's divine gift
Rivère, de Carles Nathalie. "Entre texte et scénographie : théâtralité de la toile à la Renaissance." Montpellier 3, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005MON30051.
Full text“Let's place our selues within the Curtaines, / for good faith the Stage is so very little we shall wrong / the generall eye els very much”. John Marston's stage directions for his play What you Will stresses that the Renaissance playing space is hardly thought about without curtains as material landmarks. Yet, this prop is constantly denied its existence and its impact on the Shakespearean stage. . . Despite textual evidence as the murder of Polonius behind the arras in Hamlet, there are still doubts about the role of curtains in Renaissance scenography. The purpose of this study is not only to reassert the existence of curtains thanks to archaeological data but to assess the impact of the material culture on the writing and the performance of dramatic texts. Since the Middle Ages, acting troupes have used a varied amount of cloths, tapestries and veils on stage. Those props are keys to the scenographical consciousness of the 16th and 17th centuries playwrights and actors. We will consider the flexibility and the complexity of the theatrical space and practices through an object belonging to both the domestic and the dramatic worlds
Lavéant, Katell. "Théâtre et culture dramatique d'expression française dans les villes des Pays-Bas méridionaux (XVe-XVIe siècles)." Rennes 2, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007REN20014.
Full textThis PhD-research centers on drama and the dramatic culture in the French-speaking cities of southern Low Countries (regions of Artois, Picardie, Flanders and Hainaut) at the end of the Middle Ages (15th and 16th centuries). Archive documents of various nature as well as literary texts (both manuscript and printed) have been studied, thanks to an interdisciplinary approach combining a study of cultural history with a literary focus on some theatre plays. First, the different theatrical groups and the structures of this dramatic culture are presented, which allows to show the specificities of this culture, such as the importance of the joyful companies, the question of the professional practices of the actors, the existence of a specific festive calendar and of interesting links with the Dutch dramatic culture of the time. A second part studies the relations between drama and power. In this culture of symbolic exchange, drama has a political meaning for the cities as well as for the religious, royal and Burgundian/imperial powers. The role of drama in propaganda (during the 16th century especially) is also investigated, through several instances of plays staged by the supporters of the Reformation in order to spread their ideas despite censorship. Finally, the study focuses on the dramatic production of the region, presenting not only the texts that are still available today, but also archival evidences that allow us to extend our knowledge about plays that have been staged but not kept. This allow us to question the traditional classification of theatrical texts according to dramatic genres, as well as the limits of the actual corpus of preserved texts
Karsenti, Tiphaine. "Le détour troyen : formes et fonctions de la matière troyenne dans le théâtre français des guerres de religion et la fin du règne de Louis XIV." Paris 10, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA100183.
Full textThe myth of Troy provided more subject matter to 16th and 17th century French playwrights than any other ancient fable. The exceptional scope of this legend, the multitude of its scenes and characters, and the variety of available themes and viewpoints can partly explain this phenomenon. Yet this study seeks to demonstrate how the Trojan myth, through its unique legacy and structure, served as a model for exploring the problematics of an era marked by massive political and cultural transformation : the second half of the 16th century saw the birth of both the modern State and the modern theatre. Throughout the 150-year period which followed this simultaneous development, the use of the Trojan theme in different dramatic contexts can be understood in the light of the progression of aesthetic, political, ethical and theological ideas that accompanied the cultural transition at hand
Chiari-Lasserre, Sophie. "L'image du labyrinthe dans la culture et la littérature de la Renaissance anglaise : origines, diffusion, appropriations et interprétations." Montpellier 3, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003MON30086.
Full textIn the Elizabethan period, the image of the labyrinth was being re-appropriated in several ways, all based on an ideal first championed by Horace : discordia concors. Throughout Antiquity, the story related to Theseus and the Minotaur had been retold many times, by authors such as Pliny, Ovid, Plutarch, whose texts were to be digested by translators. Renaissance England could boast, too, of an impressive medieval heritage, which favoured the didactic transmission of the myth : the influence of clerical writings linked to the idea of the unicursal maze, one way leading to God, contributed to the popularization of the legend. Gradually, the symbol was secularized during the sixteenth century. Although mythic multicursal paths proliferated in gardens, representations, danse and poetry, they reached their climax on stage. As an obsessional motif, the labyrinth is a hermeneutic key revealing new interpretative tracks exploring a multisemic theatre, whose possibilities remain to be exploited
Niayesh, Ladan. "Aux frontières de l'humain : figures du cannibalisme dans le théâtre anglais de la Renaissance." Montpellier 3, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000MON30014.
Full textStawarz-Luginbühl, Ruth. "La tragédie biblique d'inspiration huguenote en France dans la seconde moitié du XVIe siècle (1550-1573) : un théâtre de l'épreuve." Thesis, Paris Est, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PEST0015.
Full textBayouli, Tahar. "L'image de l'orient dans le théâtre élisabéthain." Paris 10, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA100033.
Full textIn this thesis, the image of the eastern world in the Elizabethan theatre is first studied in relation with its historical background. Trade with the eastern countries and the war against the Turk are pointed out as the factors which most contributed in shaping the Elizabethan image of the eastern world and its expression on the stage. The vision of the east as the realm of passion, violence and sensuality and as a land of marvels and stupendous wealth can be seen through the different evocations of the eastern world. Strangeness and exoticism are the characteristics which mark the oriental life and customs portrayed by the dramatists. The images of a violent, sensual and thoroughly wicked oriental have their expression particularly in the plays centered on the theme of the confrontation with the Turk or through the figures of the oriental villains such as alcazar (lust's dominion: Th. Dekker) and mulleasses (the Turke: J. Mason ). In Mustapha (Greville, the image of the oriental is less stereotyped because it takes its psychological and thematic depth in the tragedy. The evaluation of the images in the third part shows the value and the importance of Marlowe’s Tamburlaine in the tradition of orientalism in the Elizabethan drama and the distinction of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra
Ruiz, Soto Héctor. "Apariencia ou l’instant du dévoilement : théâtre et rituels dans l’Espagne du Siècle d’or." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Sorbonne université, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019SORUL161.
Full textThe apariencia, a typically Iberian special effect, is defined in 1611 as ‘a mute representation shown by drawing a curtain in front of people, and immediately hiding it again’ (Covarrubias, Tesoro lexicográfico). In other words, it is a performance of unveiling, used mostly in theatre, but also in liturgy – where it displays relics and sacred images – and in royal ceremonies – both in public pageant and inside the royal chapel. Apariencia also innervates private collections of paintings, where some masterpieces or cultural images are shown by pulling a curtain and closing it soon thereafter. A topic coming from the Naturalis Historia by Pliny the Elder gives a model of interpretation: the victory of Parrhasios against Apelles is the result of the illusionism of a painted curtain, that everyone would want to unveil. In his definitions of apariencia and cortina (curtain), Covarrubias describes this visual device, and he mentions spectacular unveilings both in theatre and in the royal chapel. He also reveals that the common language associates the unveiling with something that produces wonder. The theatrical apariencias, which sometimes imitate ritual, also open to the fields of painting, royal ritual and liturgy. Therefore, a concept emerges : the apariencia becomes a visual effect used to unveil something striking for a few moments, in the fields of theatre, painting, royal ritual and liturgy. This PhD dissertation deals with these spheres, and it combines history of the theatre and cultural history in order to understand the emotional and symbolic connotations of this act of unveiling in the early modern Iberian peninsula
Roger, Christine. "La réception de Shakespeare en Allemagne de 1815 à 1850 : propagation et assimilation de la référence étrangère." Metz, 2003. http://docnum.univ-lorraine.fr/public/UPV-M/Theses/2003/Roger.Christine.LMZ0319_1.pdf.
Full textThe reception of Shakespeare in Germany between 1815 and 1850 has, until recently, attracted little sustained critical attention. Modern research on the poet-playwright's 19th century reception has thus far focused principally on its aesthetic and literary aspects before 1830. The present study aims to shed new ligth on the coexistence of several Shakespeares during the Vormärz period, i. E. Before the institutionalized German discourse on the Shakespeare - supported mainly by the newly founded Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft (1864) - determined the ways he entered German national consciousness. Between 1815 and 1850 debates on the dramatist continued to have a bearing on the fashioning of German national theatre and appearance of a "second" Shakespeare on the scene. But because of the political, and cultural divisions which characterize te Vormärz period, the traditional aesthetical discussions inherited from the 18th century were enriched with a new, more political dimension : the Vormärz saw Shakespeare's promotion from a literary authority to a more moral and ethical one that his supporters could use in the working out of a German national identity. The rising numbers of editions of his complete works, his presence in literary journals, almanacs, "galleries", anthologies of the time alongside the publication of the first critical monographs devoted entirely to his life and works attest the astonishing breadth of this cultural transfer. Moreover
Oiry, Goulven Hervé. "L' Iliade parodique : la comédie française et la ville 1550-1650." Paris 7, 2012. http://ezproxy.normandie-univ.fr/login?url=https://www.classiques-garnier.com/numerique-bases/garnier?filename=GoyMS01.
Full textThis study stands at the crossroads of arts and town planning. It analyses French comedy from the period 1550-1650 in the light of its relationship to the town. Poetic and architectural arts both assign to the theatre of laughter the representation of everyday city life. What best characterises farce and comedy is not as much their classification as literary genres as the fact that they are both urban shows. The first two parts of our study show that the relationship between theatre and town go both ways. On the one hand, the town of comedy can be defined as a show-town and, on the other hand, society itself was undergoing a process of "dramatisation". Laughter and the town echo each other; comedy both reveals and catalyses the process of "urbanisation". The third part considers the interlocking planes of the town and shows how 1550-1650 comedy plays with the limits of the town. As they unfold the metaphor of siege and conquest, these plays spin a web of connections between city gates, house doors and the genitals of female protagonists. By probing the foundations of this metaphor we can simultaneously clarify the meaning of the art of comedy and reflect on the symbolic foundations of the town. The imaginative world of the theatre-town examines the relationship that connects libido with war. Considering the way it uses space, comedy can be said to stage a parody of a siege. It involves reflection on genealogy in order to present the foundations of the law
Ntantinakis, Konstantinos. "Femmes et pouvoir dans le théâtre tragique crétois (1590-1647)." Paris 3, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA030020.
Full textThe Cretan Theatre (1590-1647) is the only theatre existing in Crete following the ancient classic theatre and is also the only theatrical sign in the Greek Renaissance. The question "Women and authority" in the tragic plays (Erophile and Delivered Jerusalem of G. Chortatzis, The Abraham's sacrifice of anonymous author, Rodolinos of I. A. TroÔlos) presents a great interest on women's situation in Crete, during that period, facing the multiple sides of authority. Despite the universality of that theatre and its influences from the Italian theatre, women's characters are absolutely Greek and they also bring the echo of a forgotten world, the matriarchal period. The rhetoric of women's characters doesn't only lead the reader into the mere problem of love but also into a sociopolitical problem: the heroines allow the authors to personify ideas that they cherish, in a serious historical reality, under the Venetian occupation and the Turkish threat. The heroines' exhortations against the varied machinery of the power they suffer from reflect the soul of a people without hope under the burden of a tyrannical power
Gallégo, Josée. "Le mythe des Argonautes dans le théâtre du Siècle d'or espagnol." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCA041.
Full textThe story of Jason is a most ancient myth and survives in various forms. A more widespread interpretation relates the myth of the fleece to a method of washing gold from streams. More often, the Golden Fleece represents royal power, the spring-hero or a book on alchemy. According to Apollonius of Rhodes, a flying golden ram rescued Phrixus and Helle as their stepmother wantedto kill them. Phrixus safely reached Colchis where he sacrificed the ram and gave its skin to Aetes. Meanwhile, Pelias had usurped the throne of Eson and as his son reclaimed it, sent him to fetch the Golden Fleece. Jason assembled a remarkable group of heroes on board the Argo. At Colchis, the witch Medea helped Jason to complete the mortal tasks. Upon returning, she plotted the death of Jason's uncle, so both took refuge with their children in Corinth. There, the hero betrayed her as he fell in love with Creusa. The witch got rid of this rival, burnt the palace and slaughtered their chidren.In 1430, the Duke of Burgundy founded the Order of the Golden Fleece. As a shield, a sheepskin was suspended from a jeweled collar of firesteel linked by flints. But the choice of Jason caused controversy, so Bishop of Chalon linked it to the fleece of Gideon. As part of the Burgundian inheritance, the Order was a welcomed instrument to the ambitious Habsburgs to strengthen the bonds and Charles V added as a motto « Plus Oultre ».Performances of the Spanish Golden Age Theater were used to develop the ideology of the Catholic Monarchy. When Lope de Vega published el “Arte nuevo”, he introduced the tradition of the « Mirror for Prince » giving opportunity to express one's point of view, despite the censure
Peyré, Yves. "La mythologie dans la tragédie élisabéthaine." Paris 4, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA040013.
Full textThe analysis of mythological expression in Elizabethan tragedy rests on a study of the functions and conceptions of mythology in the culture of the English Renaissance. A diversity of mythographic approaches led to multiple, simultaneous readings of each myth, while inviting reflection on the problems of interpretation. At the same time, mythology contributed to literary and religious controversies. The emergence of a fashion for mythical elaboration centred on the sovereign paralleled that of scientific scepticism. Tragedy, which explores the magnifying and belittling potentialities of mythological rhetoric, and sets in play symbolic structures that progress from allegory to irony, raises questions about the nature and role of signs. Mythology, a language of stimulating syntheses also expressive of deep fractures, is used to create dramatic tension or ironic effects of anamorphosis in which it may be possible to apprehend what the Elizabethan mind viewed as tragic, that is to say, whatever undermined the combined ideals of renovatio and integratio. Finally, in exploring the expressive potentialities of mythology, the Elizabethans may have arrived at an intuitive inkling of what would become the concept of myth, as related to tragedy
Neimon, Delphine. "Le surnaturel dans le théâtre élisabéthain." Paris 3, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA030145.
Full textHausermann, Christophe. "Apprentis et apprentissage dans les comédies citadines élisabéthaines." Thesis, Paris 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA030110.
Full textIn Elizabethan times, apprenticeship marked the beginning of a long professional journey. After completing his training, the young craftsman was granted his freedom and became a full member of the livery company that had hired him. This status of freeman gave him London's citizenship and compelled him to exert his civic rights and duties. Every apprenticeřs ambition was to become in his turn a master and a householder. His upward mobility depended on his ability to comply with his master's judgment until he obtained his freedom. Many Elizabethan playwrights staged the training of apprentices, thus making the apprentice a stock character, criticising his excesses and praising his high deeds. Through the representation of apprenticeship, city comedies have faithfully described the life of the City and that of its livery companies
Coffin, Charlotte. "Echanges mythologiques dans le théâtre de shakespeare." Paris 4, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA040052.
Full textShakespearean drama is permeated with mythological references, with more than 850 allusions disseminated throughout the 38 plays in the canon. While critics have deployed a sophisticated approach to these references, they can also be understood as a commonplace discourse, made up of conventions shared by the general public. Thus it is necessary to reconstruct the conventions that shaped popular mythological culture, as well as to explore the poetic implications of the convention. Romantic theory introduced an antithesis between creation and convention which has resulted in the dismissal of the latter in favour of the former. Yet convention is not rigid but dynamic, as is shown by the exchanges that constitute the main axis of this work. With both concrete and symbolic implications, the concept encompasses the notions of mobility (displacing and adapting ) and negotiation (giving and gaining). The analysis unfolds on the three districts planes of context, text and stage. The fisrt part assesses the range of Elizabethan mythological culture, and shows how cheap prints and familiar images contributed to spreading conventional myths throuhout society. The central part is dedicated to textual references : inscribed within a specific dramatic situation, they participate in rhetorical persuasion, as well as in poetic reformulation. Though they may sond like "dead metaphors", trivialized by commonplace-books and transplanted from one text to another, mythological commonplaces function as exploratory tools in the world of the play. Finally, the analysis of gods and heroes on stage details the relationships between the conventional and the spectacular
Brailowsky, Yan. "Divination et prophétie dans le théâtre de Shakespeare : herméneutique et poétique." Paris 10, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA100106.
Full textThis thesis aims at studying the role of prophets, prophecies and divination in Shakespeare's plays, through the analysis of eight plays : two Roman plays (Julius Caesar and Coriolanus), two Romances (The Winter's Tale and Cymbeline), three Histories (2 Henry VI, Richard II, Richard III), and Macbeth. By analyzing ancient and contemporary sources (Cicero, Plutarch, Holinshed, Montaigne and Bacon, among others), I first show that the ``survival” of the gods of yore explains the “survival” of antique divinatory practices. The presence-absence of Mars in the Roman plays evidences the influence of the gods on man's destiny, an influence that works by indirection. The analysis of pagan rituals, notably oneiromancy, augurs and oracles, enables one to compare priests and soothsayers whose role as interpreters is defined by those in power. The study of deviant pagan practices in a Christian context (spiritism and necromancy) makes it possible to see what makes Christian prophecies unique, all the while showing the interpretive problems posed by prophecies uttered by equivocating spirits or apparitions. As for the tetralogies, they serve to understand the role of self-proclaimed prophets in an apocalyptic historical setting. The War of the Roses is as much emblematized by onomastic puns in a series of dynastic prophecies as it is by the claims of rival factions. Lastly, prophecies are not only a temporal, but also a spatial conundrum: the marginal location of Elizabethan playhouses is part and parcel of their prophetic nature, and accounts for Shakespeare's constant double-play on “utterance” and the French “outrance”
Liosi, Marilia. "La maison des Atrides dans le théâtre tragique français du XVIe et du XVIIe siècles : la question du crime." Rouen, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012ROUEL017.
Full textThis research aims to show how and under what conditions is carried out in the French tragic theatre of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries, the transposition of such a horrible and atypical ancient theme as the crimes of the Atreus clan. It presents the various aspects of its evolution which is difficult to define, under an anthropological and dramaturgic angle, due to its size. - It examines the definitions of crime and proposes a typology from texts of the mythical tradition and of the tragic theater, both greco-roman and french. -It remains attentive to the ways and configurations which show the cruelty of the crime and of its authors. -It presents, in a synchronic and historical approach, the French theatre plays that have adapted the theme of the House of Atrides, in order to give the reader the most accurate and complete possible perception concerning their affiliations and their differences
Boyer-Lafont, Agnès. "Visages de Diane dans le théâtre élisabéthain et jacobéen (1560-1616) : réfections poétiques du mythe." Montpellier 3, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003MON30088.
Full textThe mythic image of the triple goddess, Diana, a huntress on earth, Hecate in Hell and Phœbe / Cynthia in heaven, derives from classical and medieval commentaries. In the XVIth century, the allusions to chaste Diana (related to other hunters such as Actaeon or Hippolytus, to her opponent Venus, and also to Endymion) undergo poetic metamorphoses which unveil how the mythical scenario can be changed by the use of structures: parallelisms or oppositions, additions to, shortening or interchangeability of mythic motifs. How does intergeneric refashioning of the myth (transvestitio) intervene in poems, drama, mythography, emblems and political celebrations of Elizabeth I? These uses point to mythological creation and to the working of how the legendary allusion is woven into dramatic and performance text. Linking several levels of the performance, Diana's Body, enticing but forbidden, brings into question human passion for desire, power and knowledge while embodying the quest for an ideal
Mauré, Cécile. "Héritages et réappropriations du mythe d'Écho dans la littérature élisabéthaine." Montpellier 3, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006MON30027.
Full textAt one and the same time an acoustical phenomenon, a mythological figure and a literary device, Echo offers Elizabethan artists many outlets. The Ovidian myth has been adulterated, moralised, synthesised, and appears in a hybrid form in the 1550's and 1560's. Echo captivates and puzzles artists because it involves representing what cannot in fact be represented. Poets and dramatists find their own way round this paradox. Under French and Italian influence, they follow the pastoral trend and place Echo in a new Arcadia where joy and melancholy are mingled. Frequently quoted in elegies and complaints, Echo is also a tragic figure associated with suffering and lamentation, who no longer praises the gods, but bewails the dead. Hidden in the shade, her voice becomes suspect, leading men on false trails, blurring signs in woods which are suddenly transformed into dangerous labyrinths. In Shakespeare's plays and poems, she stands for disorder, bearing witness to a changing world. Echo is considered a minor figure, yet she incarnates the different aspects of a rich and complex style of writing which delights in taking the reader on roundabout detours
Drouet, Pascale. ""Counterfeiting" : le vagabond et sa mise en scène dans l'Angleterre élisabéthaine et jacobéenne." Paris 4, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA040108.
Full textIn the reign of Elisabeth I, the laws against vagabonds grow in number and advocate harsher punishment such as public whipping and infamy, red hot branding. . . : an extensive punitive system is being implemented to castigate vagrants in a conspicuous way before excluding them from society. .
Bouteille-Meister, Charlotte. "Représenter le présent : formes et fonctions de "l’actualité" dans le théâtre d’expression française à l’époque des conflits religieux (1554-1629)." Thesis, Paris 10, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA100133.
Full textDisplaying contemporaneous events on the theatre stage does not necessarily need to involve mythological or historical transposition. Often neglected or even despised by theatre critics, the representation of contemporaneousness, however, offers a particularly fertile field of study when it comes to analysing how individuals reflect on their own existence in Time.During times of religious conflict in Europe, both Catholics and Protestants alike used the stage as a powerful vehicle to stir controversy; situated at the crossroads between multiple forms and influences, theatre can provide its public with a re-presentation of present time both entertaining and critical, designed to strengthen a community’s actual and intellectual unity. What is more, forms and functions of “topicality” on stage evolve and develop further as religious conflict shifts from the theological to the political battleground and hope for reconciliation is overshadowed by escalating armed conflicts.Whilst Protestant topical theatre finds numerous concurrent signs of the imminent end of the world, the topical theatre created and represented at the Catholic Valois court tries desperately to maintain the illusion of a Golden Age of concord; soon thereafter, however, an Age of Iron is acknowledged, in which theatre reflects the violence and bloodthirstiness of its time and calls on the audiences to take action. When the compromise of the edict of Nantes imposes peace and amnesty, this pragmatism is substituted by a drive towards memorialisation: performing the present on stage becomes a matter of remembrance, at a time when the Bourbon monarchy tries to turn the recent past into a legend
Vahedian, Bahram. "Shakespeare et le "livre du destin" dans richard ii, hamlet, macbeth, kinglear, the tempest." Caen, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993CAEN1137.
Full textThe aim of this thesis is to study the problem of destiny in shakespeare's five plays selected for this end. These plays correspond in fact to different stages of the poet's evolution. The first chapter looks at the intellectual background of the tine. In this chapter we find a recurrent imagery concerning the notions which define the word-destiny. The poet turns into his art in order to clarify the mysteries : he compares the world to playhouse where man-actor is called by a divine power to play his part. The second chapter goes down into a more detailed study of the plays. It finds that shakespeare conveys his ideas through dramatic means such as imagery and the structure of his plays
Coulaud, Sandra. "Crime, histoire et politique : la représentation du régicide dans le théâtre anglais et français au tournant du XVIe et du XVIIe siècle." Thesis, Paris 4, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA040070.
Full textThe regicide is a topical crime between the sixteenth and the seventeenth-century. It is an object of many reflections and an actual event for french and english people. In both kingdom, there are debates on this issue while the schism has begun a reality. Because of the controversy, it is possible to speack about régicide as a punishment. Playwrighters perform this problematic subject. Jacques de Fonteny represent the murder of Henri Ird, Claude Billard de Courgenay represent Henri IVrth’s one, Antoine de Montchrestien represent the execution of Marie Stuart, Shakespeare and Marlowe perform the murders of Richard IInd et Edward IInd. A priori, such subject can move the audience. Nevertheless, such a performance isn’t an evidence. How, indeed, can a playwrighter show such an enormous crime during troubled period ? How can he justify the show in a crisis context ? Playwrighters have to consider ideological and aesthetic restrictions, which are sometimes in contradiction, to perform the murder of the sovereign. In many cases, they rewright history. Because the crime is usually ineffective as a politic action, it is effective for dramatic art. Tyranny justify that the prince is murdered. Some moral failures make this one acceptable. And because the king is falling, he appears as a pathetic victim for the spectators. When it is difficult to show the crime scene, the regicide is described by a messenger
Kapitaniak, Pierre. "Spectres, fantômes et revenants : phénomène et représentation dans le théâtre de la Renaissance anglaise." Paris 4, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA040156.
Full textWith the rejection of Purgatory by the Reformed Church, the ghosts became a fashionable subject in demonological debates, just as the rediscovery of Seneca encouraged spirits to haunt the European stages. The study of the relations between these two fields shows some similitude but mostly underlines the differences in apprehending the phenomenon itself : for the demonologists, the Devil always lurked behind apparitions of the souls, whereas the playwrights developed a paradoxical ghost figure insisting on its authority but questioning its reality. Beyond this contradiction, drama better than any other genre reflects the ghost's essential ambivalence, both human and supernatural, but also the ambivalence of its perception as a phenomenon, oscillating between credulity and scepticism
Krawczyk, Dariusz. "Dialectique de la parole : étude de la poésie et du théâtre de Marguerite de Navarre." Paris 10, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA100018.
Full textThe study is based on the analysis of the works of Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1591) and its purpose is to show their exceptional character in comparison to the works of the French Renaissance authors such as Clément Marot or Charles Fontaine. It's also a try to find the poetic tradition the author drew abundantly from. But, most of all, its aim is to present the main axis of the Marguerite's works, and to show how the ideology influences her poetics, knowing that the Queen was one of the mort active defender of the French evangelical movement. The ideology determines the place of the lyrical subject and the reader in the text, the role and character of the word, the role of poetics figures and of the mystic silence, towards which, paradoxally, the word and the poetry of Marguerite de Navarre moue. And, last but not least, the study contributes to rehabilitate the Queen of Navarre, known mostly as the writer of the famous collection of the short stories entitled Heptaméron, as an author creating a very personal and deeply religions poetry. The work is composed of the three parts. The first one is focused on the meaning of the poetic forms: genres, figures and the interior construction of the text. The second considers the rote of the lyrical subject in the Marguerite's poetry. It reflects the author herself, but also her relations with the others. In this part we analyze also the importance of the dialogue as a place of meeting with the Living Word. The third and the last part tries to determine the ideal of Marguerite's poetic word and its tendency to disappear in the silence-nothingness
Camard, Christophe. "Les représentations de l'Italie et des Italiens dans le théâtre de William Shakespeare et Ben Jonson." Thesis, Tours, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010TOUR2004.
Full textThis dissertation proposes the study of the place and significance of Italy as a dramatic setting in the plays of two famous dramatists of the Elizabethan period. The introduction describes the presence and influence of Italy during the period preceding the rise and blossoming of the theatre in London, as well as the omnipresence of the Italian peninsula in drama between1580 and 1620, particularly in that of William Shakespeare. The first part of the study aims to show how the Italian setting is constructed and how the figure of the Other is represented on the Elizabethan stage. In a theatre where the physical décor is limited, the methods for creating local colour take diverse and varied forms and reveal the nature of the duality between identity and otherness for the English Renaissance spectator. This then brings into focus the differences between the satirical representation of Ben Jonson and that of William Shakespeare, whose vision of Italy appears far more vague, complex and mutable. The second part of this work focuses on the study of the different topoi to which Italy is linked in their plays. They reveal the extent to which representation of the Italian peninsula is based on a collection of codes shaped in part by the expectations by the public. Moreover, they demonstrate the importance of the simultaneous rejection and imitation of the homeland of the Renaissance in the construction of English identity,at a time when Europe is divided in two on political and religious grounds
Fortin, Cécile. "La "Congrega dei Rozzi" de Sienne (1531-1603) : des ateliers d'artisans à l'écriture et à la scène." Bordeaux 3, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001BOR30057.
Full textSibille, Jean. "La Passion de Saint André : drame religieux de 1512 en occitan briançonnais : édition critique, étude linguistique comparée." Lyon 2, 2003. http://theses.univ-lyon2.fr/documents/lyon2/2003/sibille_j.
Full textHugot, Nina. "« Une femme peut bien s’armer de hardiesse ». La tragédie française et le féminin entre 1537 et 1583." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SORUL154.
Full textFrom a study of a corpus of French plays written 1537-1583, this dissertation examines in detail the female presence in tragedy and its role in the development of the aesthetics of tragic drama. The place of the feminine and the issues arising from it are analyzed on three different levels. First, the theoretical and paratextual works that define tragedy were studied. In this corpus of work, no explicit association between the tragic and the feminine is found. However, the feminine is defined throughout in a problematic way, between the necessity to conform to the norm (the decorum) and the evidence of departures from this norm (Electra will amaze because of her virility). Secondly, within the plays themselves, there are many speeches made by the characters pertaining to the question of femininity. Frequently, the common norms are referenced in order to better differentiate between the heroine and ordinary women; on occasion, the case of the heroine herself is used to contest more strongly the common norms. Finally, the action of the women in the tragic dramas is compared to that of the men. This entails the study of the roles of females in the plot, of the style of acting and performance required of them, of their moral and ideological effect on the audience, all of which allows for a redefinition of female heroism in the corpus. Given that tragic drama is constructed, in this author’s view, from the quest for extraordinary action, these heroines, all the more admirable precisely because they belong to the weaker sex, would primarily appear to be highly favorable for the successful revival of French classical tragedy, thus conferring upon it its first characteristics
Cimmieri, Valeria. "Femme et pouvoir dans le théâtre tragique italien des XVIe et XVIIe siècles : étude d’un corpus emblématique de rôles-titres féminins." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013TOU20096.
Full textTragedy was a genre that flourished in Italy in the 16th and 17th century of which numerous examples were dedicated to the eponymous heroines. Created in the process of rewriting (réécriture) of myths, historical narratives and various religious and literary sources, those characters bring up questions concerning the relation between women and power encouraging authors and their public to take part in the debates that are crucial for the contemporary society. Through more or less explicit literary means, tragic theater becomes a political theater for it raises the city to the dignity of the spectacle that reflects on its civic and cultural mechanisms
Berton-Charrière, Danièle. "Cyril Tourneur : vie et œuvre d'un dramaturge jacobéen." Montpellier 3, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002MON30047.
Full textMy research work includes four essential parts : I a biography, portrait-anatomy of subject "HE", Cyril-William Tourneur ; II a translation of "The Atheist's Tragedy" ; III the concordance to the dramatic works attributed to Cyril Tourneur ("The Atheist's Tragedy" ; "The Revenger's Tragedy") ; IV the study of an analytical method based on lexicometry and stylostatistics, and its application to works attributed to Cyril Tourneur to solve some of the problems related to textual authorship
Bouisson, Jean-Luc. "Les rapports de la musique et du duel dans le théâtre de Shakespeare." Avignon, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998AVIG1018.
Full textAt the core of elizabethan culture and education, in the midst of the changes coming over renaissance England, music and swordfighting met on the shakespearian stage. The playwright, whose aim was "to hold as'twere the mirror up to nature", naturally integrated them into the setting of his plays. Play after play, in the histories, as well as in the comedies, the tragedies and the romances, the various representations and symbolic meanings of music and swordfighting allowed Shakespeare to extend considerably his dramatic effects. These two arts enhanced the liveliness of the relationships, friendly or hostile, between his characters and worked towards the representation of harmony, the tensions once soothed. They also contributed to the staging of the shakespearian dramatic text. This text - the performance text - thus assumes some of their idiosyncrasies. As illustrations of mimesis, the very essence of drama, music and swordfighting build up a language that achieves the union between text and representation on the shakespearian stage
Fernandes, Isabelle. "Le sang et l'encre : le théâtre de la religion chez John Foxe : les martyrs protestants sous Marie Tudor." Versailles-St Quentin en Yvelines, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004VERS014S.
Full textThe catholic queen Mary Tudor ascended the English throne in 1553 after her half-brother Edward VI's endeavours to thorouthly reform the country. This key episode in English history was to have pride of place in John Foxe's martyrology which praised the constancy of the three hundred protestants or so who died on the stake for their faith between 1555 and 1558. As Foxe contributed much to the creation of the myth of "Bloody Mary", the present work intends first to purvey an approach to the Crown's policy during those years of fire and ashes to sort the truth out from the lies. Then the question of protestant martyrdom will be broached. How can we explain that though protestantism had definitively renounced the notion of sacrifice whereas the Concil of Trent clarified that mass was a sacrifice, a bloodless sacrifice, but a sacrifice anyhow, it insisted on the value of the demise of its victims with the use of martyrology ? We suggest that Foxe tried to substitute the body of the martyr for the catholic host, that thanks to iconography, the stake becomes an inverted mass, that the loathed transubstantiation has been displaced, but that it does extist, as the blood of the martyrs has become ink
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
Werchowski, Katherine. "Un exemple d'intertextualité : Comédie du mariage : premier drame juif en hébreu." Paris 8, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA081614.
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