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Marchand, Sophie. "Théâtre et pathétique au dix-huitième siècle : pour une esthétique de l'effet dramatique." Paris 4, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA040111.
Full textThe taste for tears and the ethics of sensibility deeply influence the theatrical practice and theory of the Enlightenment. An original dramatic model elaborates itself from the efficiency of pathos considered as a sentimental adhesion. The analysis of theoretical texts allows a description of this homogenous and coherent system's constitutive elements. The disruptions induced in the dramatic thought by the pathetic expectations are considered first : the promotion of the effect to the rank of a decisive criterion of value, the change from a pœtics of beauty to an aesthetics of pleasure, the effects of the lacrymomania on the genres. Then, the examination of dramatic texts sheds light on the emergence of a rhetoric and a dramaturgy spécifique to the pathos. Finally, the beholder's viewpoint is analysed and the pathetic experience considered, in order to understand how the drama gets integrated into the philosophical system of the Enlightenmnent
Feuchter-Feler, Anne. "Le drame militaire en Allemagne au XVIIIe siècle : esthétique et cité." Metz, 2002. http://docnum.univ-lorraine.fr/public/UPV-M/Theses/2002/Feuchter_Feler.Anne.LMZ0206_1.pdf.
Full textJulliard, Catherine. "La réception des théories esthétiques françaises par le théâtre allemand de la Frühaufklarung." Paris 4, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992PA040127.
Full textThe period to be studied, a domain that has been until now little explored, extends over the first decades of the eighteenth century and is characterized by different ruptures with the previous century, particularly with the formal and conceptual heritage of the second Silesian school. The psychological situation of the epoch is defined by the German consciousness of deficiencies in the dramatic and cultural sphere, increased by the reactions of foreigners who mock German literature. The specific German situation is the origin of the reception of French dramatic theories. The reception, or the passage from one cultural sphere to another, meets German expectations, and the borrowings play a cardinal part in the elaboration of a new dramatic theoretical edifice. The model advocated by Gottsched, who is the focus of the study, is France, a successful example of a national culture, an ideal of dramatic theory which is based on norms. The method employed consists in a reading of texts in French and German theory with the consideration of major themes. The study shows that Gottsched is inspired by the French classical and neoclassical tradition. It attempts to reveal the coherence of the French contributions that the German writer integrates into the edification of his national program
Bile, Sembo-Backonly Anicette Irène. "De la réforme esthétique à la réflexion sociopolitique : une lecture des drames de Louis-Sébastien Mercier." Paris 3, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA030069.
Full textLouis-Sébastien Mercier (1740-1814) is a craftsman of the drama. Its participation in the aesthetic reflexion was crowned by a vast theatrical production. While resting on the large theoretical texts of the author, this work privileges the dramas, to read the orientations of the dramatic reform which it carried out. It is a question of following the thought of Mercier who speaks about the writer “flagellator of vice”, “cantor of the virtue”, in order to analyze the dramatic and dramaturgic means by which the esthetic reform leads, in its dramas, with a thought on the transformation of the society. Middle-class dramas, heroic dramas or national plays, and historical dramas are analyzed together, to see how all these categories account for the capacity given to the theater, and make it possible to understand the Mercier’s literary, political and social ideal. The first part makes for the installation. It not only sticks to traverse the great ideas of reform supported by Mercier, but also to present the selected repertory. It releases a particular conception of the representation of the conditions, which constitutes finally the matrix of the sociopolitic reflexion that the second and the third parts reveal through paintings, figures of characters, speeches
Pasquier, Pierre. "La Mimesis dans l'esthétique théâtrale française du début de l'âge classique à la fin de la période romantique." Caen, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987CAEN1022.
Full textGuillot, Catherine. "Histoire et poétique de l'image du théâtre en France (1600-1651) : contribution à l'histoire de l'illustration." Paris 3, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA030155.
Full textThis study realized during the era of illustrated editing in the 17th century examines how images are the product of a number of factors suseptible to multitude of analysis. This illustrated editing crosses several fields of expertise : literary, editorial, political, artistical. The first idea given by Horace in the Ut pictura poesis enables the image to become complementary to the written material at every level : internally with the icon context of the frontispiece, externally in relation to the introductory elements or, in its link to the dramatical text that it represents, in a litteral and allegorical level that aims for the uplifting enlightenment of the reader. There exists as intimate a connection between painting and poetry (Ut pictura poesis) as there is between painting and drama (Ut pictura theatrum). The parallism is made is three ways : metaphoric (comparative mode), esthetical (crossed thoughts between drama and painting) and scenic (scenography based on pictoral models)
Ruimi, Jennifer. "Étude d’une forme dramatique oubliée. La parade de société au XVIIIe siècle." Thesis, Paris 3, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA030119.
Full textWhile widely popular as a form of entertainment among eighteenth-century aristocratic circles, the dramatic genre known as ‘parade de société’ has long been regarded by literary historians as a minor one, and therefore unworthy of scholarly attention. Parades find their origins in the shows that took place in fairs and markets in Paris, yet they were later taken up by the best salons of the town. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, few were interested in these ribald plays except for a handful of scholars delving into bawdy double entendre and sexual innuendoes. Up until the twenty-first century, the parade has been condemned on moral as well as aesthetic grounds and has gradually fallen into oblivion. Only the parades written by well-known authors such as Beaumarchais and Potocki have been carefully studied and have been granted some critical legitimacy. This field of research has therefore been left largely unexplored. My aim in this dissertation is to trace the history of the parade and examine the emergence, development and reception of the genre in the eighteenth century. Going beyond mere description, I want to scrutinize the dramatic devices at work in these plays to show how, similarly to the ‘théâtre de société’ to which they belong, parades make possible a number of dramatic experiments, how they approach all forms of knowledge in a parodic way, and call into question the codes of established drama
Masclet, Virginie. "La parole dans le théâtre de Musset." Paris 4, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA040132.
Full textIt is a well-known fact that most of Musset's plays were not written to be performed. This refusal of the stage should not be explained as the result of the author's ideological views on literature, but rather as a consequence of a wound to his pride. Young Musset's works had been badly greeted and mocked, and thus the author gave up the audience and intended his drama to be read rather than performed. One must then conclude that to read Musset's plays is to accept the original experience of a drama which exists only through its words, which distances itself from Aristotelian mimesis and catharsis, and which is built through the sole speech of characters. Speech is therefore the core of Musset's drama. It represents its very substance, its meaning, and at the same time its means of expression and its subject for reflection. This work on speech as a means of expression and as an end in itself has some important corollaries. If speech animates this drama to be read and not to be performed, it plays its part as much as a character would. As a character, then, speech has its own story which originally quite resembles its speaker's story. The originality of Musset as a playwright must be seen in contrast to the tradition he went against
Weill-Engerer, Christèle. "La folie : reflet d'une esthétique baroque dans le théâtre de Shakespeare, Calderón et Corneille : étude linguistique, stylistique et littéraire." Paris 4, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA040193.
Full textThe purpose of this study was to compare three authors writing in different idioms, all three belonging to the XVIIth century: Shakespeare, Calderon and Corneille. We tried to show that their theatrical works offer the features of a baroque aesthetics, refusing consequently the image of a classical Corneille. We choosed one of the aspects which represents the best the baroque in the theater: madness. The theme of madness leaded us to examine, in a linguistical, stylistical and literary point of view, some characteristics common or divergent between this English, Spanish and French theater. First, we began to point out in these three authors that some characters were having an unbounded desire of power and domination, representing on stage what we called "a Prometheus challenge". From this point, we established that the linguistical and stylistical expression of madness was not necessarily appearing with an hyperbolical language but, paradoxically, with a rational language. We studied then the madness of love, and more particularly jealousy, which symbolizes a DionysiaC baroque, producing, in the tragedy or the comedy, the violence of passion. Finally, we saw that madness could present clinical and pathological signs and symbolize therefore a spiritual, somatical and macrocosmical disorder, described with precision by the three authors. In conclusion, this work shows that the topic of madness perfectly reflects a theatrical baroque with different faces in the works of Shakespeare, Calderon and Corneille
Pleschka, Alexander. "Théatralité et public. Les drames tardifs de Schiller et la tragédie classique française." Thesis, Paris 4, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA040204.
Full textThe present study shows how Schiller, as a consequence of his reading of Kant and Diderot, includes the audience in his dramaturgy and thereby gives the scenic situation a public character, which allows him to represent political issues typical of the French Revolution. This serves to explain why Schiller’s later plays, especially Wallenstein, Maria Stuart and Demetrius, adapt some features of French classical tragedy.The first part of the study explains how, during the Querelle du Cid, contemporaries developed an awareness of how the presence of an audience lends a public quality to the situation of dramatic performance. This public quality is reflected in contemporary prescriptive poetics and employed to affect the audience in Corneille’s and Racine’s dramaturgy.The second part describes how since the 18th century viewing drama has been regarded as a genuinely subjective action, instead of being seen, as before, as a public activity taking place in front of other spectators. This mode of viewing allows creating a public sphere which is abstract in a modern sense.The third and final part states how Schiller’s aesthetics lead to a partial integration of the theatre audience into the scene, which in turn gives the scene a public character, similar to the one of the French classical period. This concept of the public character of drama is then distinguished from concepts developed in Schiller’s theoretical writings and illustrated with analyses of his later plays
Caballero, Alma. "La France dans le théâtre de l'Amérique Latine : trois courants d'influence dans des points clefs de la géographie et de la culture de Notre Amérique." Paris 8, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA080930.
Full textThere is an undeniable french prescence in the theater of latin america : it can be appreciated through the writings about indigenous theater, and the tours around the continent made by the most celebrated french masters. This influence is also manifest in some historical motives of the evangelization theater, as well as in the french-writt en plays staged by latin-americans. Through the study of texts, reports and historical testimony, our work intends to seize the traces this exchange left in the formation of the public's taste, the conception of the mise en scene, and in the perspectives of a new creativity
Kerber, Stéphane. "L’anatomie de l’action dans le théâtre de Marivaux." Thesis, Paris 4, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA040060.
Full textThis research targets to bring new lights on the aesthetic of the theatre of Marivaux by focusing on the conceptof action. Also, through the plays of Marivaux, it looks concretely for a new thinking about this polyvalent andcomplex notion. It constitutes an ‘Anatomy of action’. It takes place in the global reflection on this term, whichgoes back to Aristotle and in which philosophers and creators/theoreticians confronted their conceptions on thedefinition, its essence and the new aesthetic inflexions which could be reached then.The analysis is mostly based on three plays, both ‘experiments’ and patterns which reveal in an emblematicway the diversity of this theatre and open on the other dramatic creations of Marivaux. A fairy Italian pattern,Arlequin polished by love (1720) leads to the exploration of the basics : the inconstancy as action, the actionresulting from a highly hybrid mixed genres theatre and the crisis of the protagonist and its consequences onthe centre of action. A tragic fruitful anti-pattern, Annibal (1719) gives a deep structure for three masterpieces,comedies with “tragic basement” (The False Servant, The Travestied Prince, The Triumph of Love) by usingthe traditional tools of the tragedy (knot of glory, sublime, recognition, choice of the protagonist). And autopian pattern, The Island of slaves (1725) creation of thought leads to the concept of action and gives key forunderstanding how Marivaux builds up this action by mixing and balancing it with cheerful and eventfulaspects
Li, Min-Yuan. "Apports des traditions scéniques orientales dans les théories esthétiques et les pratiques du théâtre européen au XXe siècle." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LYO20029/document.
Full textIn the last decade of the 19th century, works of Lugné-Poe and Antoine experiment a new aesthetic representation and search the essence of the theatrical invention in the mise en scène. The director (metteur en scène) becomes the author; toa certain extent, sometimes, s/he takes the predominant role. Throughout the 20th century, the evolution of the directing (mise en scène) accelerates abruptly and it is so violent and sometimes it reaches to a state of anarchy. This is why the aesthetics of oriental scenic tradition, which goes through reproducible art forms, even stereotypical, could provide beacon and safeguards.Paul Claudel is the first person who acquires knowledge about the Orient due to his long stays in Asia. He incorporates the oriental traditions, cultures and philosophies in his playwriting, and proposes new epic and lyric forms in theater, likeone sees in The shoe of satin and Christophe Columbus. Proposing a symbolist theater, he had staged real poems which reflect his cosmology and his poetic vision. Claudel had achieved what Jean-Louis Barrault dreamed of -the "total theater."In the early 20th century, several colonial exhibitions introduced the East to the West. They gave Westerners an opportunity of directly absorbing the oriental scenic tradition. The formalists acting— sacred and aesthetics— in symbolic poetry attractsintellectuals and artists. Particularily, the representations of Sada Yacco and Mei Lan-fang were most enthusiastically received. The theoretical directors were passionate about the expressive and metaphorical acting of their robust,well-proportioned yet flexible bodies, about their moderate and discreet attitude, which were shaped by the ancient Eastern traditions. Although there were slight differences among various Asian theaters, they were grouped under the common name of "Oriental Theatre". In this sense, I would like to analyze the impacts caused by three major events of the western theater history in Europe: the successive visitings of troupe Sada Yacco in 1901, the Colonial Exhibition in 1931, and the arrival of Mei Lan-Fang in 1935. At the same time, we should trace the origins and common characteristics of Asian theaters.When the innovative artists discovered the eastern theater, they were overcame by the authenticity of its theatricality and they mirror the Western theater in opposition to the Eastern theater, in which they denounce the shortcomings of Westerntheatrical convention. The oriental scenic tradition shows them the paradoxical aesthetic: (1) unornamented decoration yet enriching in the metaphorical layout; (2) stylized artificial acting but realistic-details revealing; (3) short performance butrequiring long-term training; (4) creations constrained by tradition but set free by the talent of artist; (5) one theatrical art integrating various arts.Referring to these oriental characteristic forms, Craig seeks to find a "definite form", Meyerhold tends to establish a new convention of theatricality. As for Brecht, he goes further into developing theory, and his writing aims to produce the effect of"alienation." Artaud, on the other hand, wants to "terminate the masterpieces" and allow real stage language to speak for itself.After these pioneers who discovered sources from the Orient, directors who follow these doctrines such as Grotowski, Barba, Brook, and Ariane Mnouchkine turn their spiritual search and introspective towards the Orient, in hopes of generating their own aesthetics which could be realized in practice. Therefore, their creations reflect not merely Eastern traditions nor do they apply only Western conventions, but they are fertilized and born out of their appropriation to the Orient, mingled with these directors’ own personality, their "tribe" and their cultural preferences
Einman, Maria. "Lector in drama. Les enjeux fictionnels et imaginaires du suicide dans le théâtre français du XIXe siècle." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCA048/document.
Full textThis study examines the reading of drama texts as the reading of fictional texts, aiming to broaden the current approach according to which the reading of drama texts is mainly limited to text analysis. This question is examined in the light of the issue of suicide in 19th-century French drama. The principal aim of this study is therefore to understand the impact of the character’s suicide on the reader via the detailed analysis of the ins and outs of the suicidal act. The study applies Vincent Jouve’s concept of the virtual reader, who is defined as an implicit and atemporal recipient of the text effects. This reader emerges in a fictional world that is supported by an operative device (dispositif) based on the Lacanian triptych of the Real, the Symbolic and the Imaginary.The dissertation consists of five chapters. The theoretical discussion is followed by four chapters that deal, respectively, with melodrama, romantic drama, naturalist drama, and symbolist drama. In addition to the effect of the fictional suicide on the reader (which is systematically connected to the catharsis), the evolution of theatrical genres and forms is explored from the perspective of “virtual” reading. Thereby, the reading of 19th-century French drama could be viewed as a journey from the optimistic certainty of melodrama to the tragic indeterminacy of symbolist drama, from actual to probable suicides, from “sorrowful” catharsis to anticatharsis
Johansson, Franz. "Le corps dans le théâtre de Paul Valéry." Paris 4, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA040059.
Full textAmong all the literary genres, theatre deals with the human body in a unique way: not only is the body figured in a play but it also becomes a substance, an instrument, a presence on the stage. A playwright will always, in some way or another, be confronted with the body in the meaning of its biological constitution, its shape and movement, its resources and limitations and, ultimately, its essence. Theatre is therefore one of the most interesting fields for studying Valéry’s approach to the human body : in no other part of his work does the writer embrace the body in such an immediate, complex, profound - and nonetheless problematic and ambiguous -way. Valéry is an immense artist of the body. The first part of this work explores how Valéry contemplates the experience of theatrical embodiment: do his dramatic works and projects need and call on the actor’s active matter ? Or do they, at least, tolerate it ? The second part analyses the different ways in which Valéry’s aesthetic principles incorporate the presence and movement of the body in dramatic writing: how are the expressive means of the actor seized and transformed by artistic conventions, processes or techniques ? The last part aims to specify the conceptions of the body that emerge from Valéry’s plays and drafts: what does this theatre, as a language of the body, tell us about the human body ?
Maubon, Pascale. "L'identité du Comédien(ne) et le jeu dramatique dans le théâtre du 17ème siècle de 1630 à 1650." Thesis, Nice, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015NICE2031.
Full textThis thesis has for objective to show the link of cause with effect, between the arrival of theform the play within the play of the pre-classic period from 1630 till 1650 with theconstruction of the identity of comedian from the piece of Rotrou Le Véritable Saint Genest,Desmarets The Visionaries, Gougenot The comedy of the comedians, Scudéy The comedy ofthe comedians, and Corneille The comic illusion, the character-comedian of which someborrow openly, or imply him. To explain the arrival in the History of the professionalcomedian, the study gets organized according to a historic panorama of the identity of thecomedian since Antiquity to the Middle Ages, at the time of the disappearance of the mysteryand the closure of the Brotherhood of the Passion and the Resurrection of our Lord Jésus-Christ, proving the advance of the comedian. Then, the redefining of the genre in which willjoin the form of the play within the play will allow to notice the passage of the religiousidentity in the professional identity of the comedian with the rehabilitation of the genre of thecomedy for a long time ecclipsé in the History. The statement of comedians’figures ofdifferent social backgrounds, craftsmen, traders, noble persons, comedians of fair, Italiancomedians, will allow to determine the profile of the french comedian, its professional andsocial identity. The dramatic play of the comedian by the freedom of creation and theimagination of the playwrights knows an evolution. The question of the psychological identityof the comedian, its relationship in the mimesis, the identification or not of his character in theplay, in reference to the ethics redefines
Jaëcklé-Plunian, Claude. "L'historiographie du théâtre au XVIIIe siècle : la venue du théâtre à l'histoire." Paris 3, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA030091.
Full textThe 18th century historiography of French theatre opens with a series of ecclesiastical works which make this history an instrument against dance and theatre, though there are some sharp retorts. Beginning in 1730 several theatre histories appear. Authors such as Brumoy, Riccoboni, Maupoint and Beauchamps, who are mainly not scholars but often have ties to professionnal theatre, engage in research in both public and private libraries, using collections of wealthy theatre lovers as well as the medium of press and the erudition of private individuals. Fontenelle had opened the door with his History of French Theatre which served as a beacon for its sources, framework, literary style and above all his intelligent reading of the past, whitch ruptured the thread of those publications that were either for or against the theatre. Empowered, our historians organize their material according to known models : Renaissance bibliographies give them the matrix for lists of authors of plays. Previously unseen original material as well as extracts and analyses are published. They create a virtual history of drama and theatre. This history offers them a new space where they can reflect on cultural relevance regarding the relationship of dominant moral and religious values. The essays of academicians accompany this mouvement. Their disciples are journalists, encyclopaedists or 'literay bohemians'. Publications of almanachs and dictionaries which chronicle the history of the times multiply, amassing materiel that will be left to succeeding generations to sort out. Solicited by the misomimes, they invest their energy in reforming a theatre which for them is an engrossing utopia , a place where they sometimes display astonishing ingenuity. They are called Mouhy, Du Coudray, Rétif or Nougaret. With the passing of the century, Suard returns to Fontenelle's History of French Theatre, paving the way for Sainte-Beuve
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 textForsans, Ola-Alexandre. "Le théâtre de Lélio : étude du répertoire du Nouveau Théâtre Italien de 1716 à 1729." Paris 4, 2002. https://acces.bibliotheque-diderot.fr/login?url=https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9780729408820.
Full textFrom 1716 to 1729, Luigi Riccoboni (also known as "Lelio") directed the "Nouveau Théâtre Italien" in Paris. His troupe of Italian comedians performed many new plays in French. They gave voice and life to a theatrical language of its own, which blended several theatrical genres. . . Yet the spirit of the repertoire was remarkably homogeneous, to a large extent. Harlequin's simple-minded fantasy allowed him for instance to express some mere philosophical ideas on stage. In Riccoboni's repertoire, the commedia dell'arte traditional buffoonery makes way for a kind of melancholic mood : in search of genuine sincerity, the Lovers turn a blind eye to their real feelings until the happy endings settle the twisted plots. . . Marivaux's recent glory must not overshadow the other authors who once were a part of Lelio's theatre (like Autreau or Delisle). Our work aims to focus on a chapter of French and European theatrical history which indeed deserves a wider recognition
Heitz, Raymond. "Le drame de chevalerie dans les pays de langue allemande à la fin du XVIIIe et au début du XIXe siècle : théâtre, nation et cité." Paris 4, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA040087.
Full textThe resounding success of chivalric drama in German-speaking countries at the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth has not secured for this "genre" the attention it deserves from researchers. Based on better quantitative survey of this dramatic from and a broader corpus of references, the present study invalidates the theses founded on fragmentary material. This phenomenon, as the point of convergence of questions of aesthetics and of historical and political realities, is reinserted in the German theatre at a moment which coincides with the awakening of a Germanic identity, the acceptance of Shakespeare and aesthetic conflicts. The analysis of the concept of patriotism, which is inseparable from the idea of a "national theatre", clarifies the point of view transmitted by these plays as regards the life of the city and the established powers and gives the "genre" its place in the debate concerning the image of foreigners and the contrasting effects of stereotypes. The metamorphosis of this theatrical vein, once revealed, rejects the positions considered acceptable until now. The dispute concerning levels of
Di, 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.
Full textGenton, François. "La découverte du théâtre allemand (1750-1772) : contribution à une étude de la fortune et de l'image de la littérature allemande en France au XVIIIe siècle." Metz, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988METZ004L.
Full textGerman plays were translated in France as early as the second half of the 18th century, i. E. Well before the romantic era. A few German authors originally favored this trend, hoping to gain international recognition for their work, and to force German francophiles to turn toward their own native literature. On the other hand, a certain amount of curiosity on the part of the French for the German "renaissance" gradually substituted for the traditional attitude of contempt of works of art from the north. From 1754 through 1762, the journal etranger published several excerpts from German plays and also offered an idyllic view of literary Germany, as opposed to the refined decadence of French mores and arts. The "German fashion" reinforced this conception in the 1760's; German plays became a source of inspiration for French playwrights. As early as 1772, the comedie francaise staged a tragedy directly drawn from a German play. From that moment on, German theater no longer was something to be discovered, but something to reckon with, however superficial the knowledge one had of it in France. German authors were very attentive to this evolution, which helped them become aware of their own worth an identity on an international basis
Vanuxem-Prieur, Christelle. "Eusebio Vela (1688-1737) et le théâtre en Nouvelle-Espagne au XVIIIe siècle : approches dramaturgique et sociologique." Perpignan, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PERP0431.
Full textMailhol, Jean-Claude. "La tragédie domestique élisabéthaine : contexte éthique et perspectives esthétiques." Montpellier 3, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003MON30073.
Full textElizabethan domestic tragedy stages the middle-class citizen's married life. Should we see there the image of the Edenic happiness promised by Puritan conduct books, or a foretaste of hell ? Behind that question lies the image of woman. Does she still conform to the idealized Lucrece or Griselda stereotypes of old ? The plays offer an ambivalent type of heroin. That theatre had an edifying role. Its authors apparently respect the imposed convention, presenting the spectator with an unchanging homiletic pattern. But the impertinent art of the dramatists upsets the order and certainties of the moral discourse. A range of images and metaphors make for an aesthetic blurring effect of confusion. Domestic tragedy depicts a gloomy universe, where the image of the fall into nothingness is substituted for the comforting vision of a sublimated elevation
Carreau, Isabelle. "Ni simple ni sot : la "Lustige Person" dans la comédie viennoise (1724-1818)." Paris 4, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA040071.
Full textPlagnol-Diéval, Marie-Emmanuelle. "Le théâtre de madame de Genlis." Paris 10, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA100043.
Full textMadame de Genlis wrote a theater of education, today forgotten. This work analyses this theater and brings out valuable criterions for other similar works, such as the genesis of the play, the morals, the art of the theater (plot, tempo and characters) and fitness for performance. This theater is based upon a neo-classical aesthetics including morals, unequal struggle between good and evil and breakdown of the characters by the virtuous, the unperfected and the wicked. Morals secularize religious ethics. Temperance, moral strength and charity are praised, while pride, laziness, gossip, intrigue and perversity are criticized. The aim is social harmony. The adaptation of morals to society however does not imply an objective historical testimony, as the genlisian ideology and myths (family for instance) take the place of realism. The art of the theater is consequently a compromise between didactic and dramatic necessities, which explains the metamorphoses of tempo and plot. Edifying style is characterized too by original turns of phrases, for instance moral sketches, abstractions and mottos. Characters are influenced by performances of a theater of society, schematic of edifying theater, reversal of traditional comic characters and creation of new heroes. These works nevertheless care for performance because of the publicity of virtue. Madame de Genlis's theater is characterized by unity and originality; it corresponds to a moral, social and pedagogical expectation: this work shows the transition between the age of enlightenment and the nineteenth century of Louis-Philippe
Arbey-Salemi, Monique. "Le théâtre d'Alexis Piron ou les avatars d'Arlequin." Paris 4, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA040141.
Full textAlexis Piron is only well known in French literature for his one comedy la Métromanie. Beside the brilliant productions of Marivaux or Beaumarchais, he is very much in the shade. However, the dramatic works of Alexis Piron consist of twenty-six plays written between 1722 and 1744, performed on all kinds of stages : at fairgrounds, at the Italian comedy, at the opera and at the Comédie Française. In other words, Alexis Piron's drama is one of infinite variety which extends from a straight one-man show at the fair, to tragedy by way of comedy of manners or character. Piron's work is inscribed in a period which is significative of instability, at a time when authors, who were still too attached to classical traditions, were bound by an amazing force of inertia. But at the same time, a real desire for change and renewal can be detected. The march towards "modern" theater had begun. And the modern aspect of Piron's work is precisely apparent in the astonishing vitality of a free theater which bounds over the fleeting currents of nivelling theater and bourgeois drama, to achieve on complete dramatic work. In this, it's the reflection of an era which marks, according to Paul Valery's expression, "the beginning of the end of a social system"
Mézergues, Juliette. "Pour une esthétique du chaosl : le théâtre de la catastrophe de Howard Barker." Bordeaux 3, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008BOR30029.
Full textHoward Barker is a playwright, poet, director and English painter born in 1946. He began to write early 1970 and has developed since the 1980's the concept of The Theatre of Catastrophe. His theatre recognizes Greek tragedy as a model, cutting off its catharsis effect and keeping its climax, the chaos. It puts the actor at the centre because it is the bearer of language. This text analyzes the concepts of this theatre through five selectedplays : The Europeans, Gertrude the Cry, The Twelfth Battle of Isonzo, Und and Don’t Exaggerate (Desires and insults) A Political Statement in the Form of Hysteria. In the first part, we develop the broad principles of this drama : the tragic and its adaptation, the omnipresence of death ; speculation that the author practices from a historical or literary standpoint and questioning morality through the savage ego which characterises the catastrophist character. The second part focuses on the construction of the catastrophist play : what is its dramaturgy, how is it an expression of desire and places the language at the centre of the theatre and how the chaos concept cannot be separated. The third part analyzes the poetic aspect of the last three plays cited in which secrecy is predominant and the language of the theatre of Catastrophe is radicalized. The fourth part relate experiences with this theatre : spectator, free observer , intern and workshop assistant. Such various viewpoints are confronted. The conclusion summarises the concepts of The Theatre of Catastrophe and assesses its place in the contemporary theatrical landscape
Barut, Benoît. "Un Spectacle dans un fauteuil. Poétiques et pratiques didascaliques d'Axël à Zucco." Thesis, Paris 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA030134.
Full textBecause they seemingly have to make the dialog work as well as to construct theperformance, because they seem to encroach upon the director’s grounds and yet cannot level with the magic of the actual staging, because they are not a real piece of literature nor do they belong to the show, the stage directions have long been overlooked by theater studies. In the past few years, a mild interest has arisen. On the one hand, linguists describe in a synchronic fashion the generic features of this particular type of discourse. On the other hand, critics wish to seize the specificity of each author’s stage directions, with an emphasis on the breaches of their theoretical functional purity.In this thesis, we intend to go beyond this fragmented approach by offering an overall poetics of stage directions and, in order for it to carry meaning, weight and nuance, we choose to base it on history and, specifically, on XXth century theater, from Villiers to Koltès, an enlarged century, deeply rooted in the XIXth and already glancing at the XXIst. It is then that stage directions redefine themselves as a result of the advent of the director and his coming to power ;it is then that they spectacularly travel out of joint but appear, nonetheless, incapable or unwilling to get rid altogether of their fundamental usefulness. Unequivocally, they prove to be a form of speech limping “one foot in duty, on foot in desire”, an icarian discourse reconciling what is theoretically opposed.This study starts with the format of the stage directions, their territory, their enunciation (i.e. the exact role they play in the dramatic communication), their graphic characteristics (punctuation, typography, lay-out). Then, we investigate the very fabric of stage directions writing, the perpetual tension between the pact that rules them (clarity, economy) and a fundamental drive to become something else (to become stage, to become poem, to become novel…)
Diot, Marie-Renée. "La femme dans le roman et théâtre allemands du dix-huitième siècle : 1725-1784." Paris 4, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA040117.
Full textIn an age when the legal and religious status of woman ranks her an inferior and an eternal minor, when harsh punishments threaten those who flout the rules of sexual morality or commit infanticide, when the lamentable state of education for women is underlined by a host of observers and in particular by the moral weeklies, it is legitimate to wonder whether literature, in this case theatre and the novel, has made any decisive contribution to the analysis of the situation and to the formulation of demands, of pleas on behalf of women, of reform projects aiming to secure greater equality. A study of the image of woman, such as she appears in theatre and the novel, which analyses the physical, moral, intellectual representation of the heroines, their place in the system of social and family relationships, friendship and love, and which also takes into account the differences and shifts of emphasis determined by the diversity of these genres and the evolution of taste, reveals an emerging pattern of womanhood that in no way challenges the established order
Calva, Hernández Laura. "Théâtre et public au Mexique dans les années 1930 : le cas de "Maya" de Simon Gantillon (1930), "Gaz" de George Kaiser et "Les briseurs de machines" d'Ernst Toller (1933), une esthétique de la réception." Perpignan, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PERP0607.
Full textI have constructed an analytical model of the perception of theatrical productions based on Hans Robert Jauss’s esthetical perception and the semiotics of Charles Sanders Peirce. This model could be applied to the study of any artistic production. I apply it to three European Avant Garde plays which were presented in Mexico between 1930 and 1933: Maya by Simon Gantillon, The Machine breakers by Ernst Toller and Gas by George Kaiser. In each case I outline the factors which influenced the public’s interpretation and judgement. In fact the perception of a theatre play depends directly on the social, political and aesthetic notions which are valid for the spectator and which thus determine his interpretation of the signs which make up the text
Jaubert-Michel, Elsa. "De la scène au salon : la réception du modèle français dans la comédie allemande des Lumières (1741-1766)." Paris 4, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA040199.
Full textThe German Enlightenment comedy has often been labeled as theatre " a la francaise ", or Frenchlike; the present work aims at studying these comedies under the perspective of cultural transfers, in order to measure the extent of the French influence over the German production. First it evaluates the actual presence of French comedy in Germany, from a theoretical and practical point of view. The second part is devoted to originality and comparative analysis of drama. We then turn to satirical themes, so as to underline their links to the French tradition of comedy as well as their specificity. Last, since France at that time was also a role-model in civility, and comedy a " school of good manners ", we concentrate on this aspect, which is so central to German national identity. These analyses qualify the reception of the French model, which is revealing of the complexity of Franco-German relationships
Chabin, Valérie. "Structures et structure dans le théâtre anglais contemporain : d'une esthétique de la rupture à une expérience narcissique : esquisse d'́une étude de la modernité et de la postmodernité théâtrales." Paris 3, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA030149.
Full textA distinction needs to be made between this study of contemporary dramatic structures and a structuralist exercice. The way in which british drama from the fifies to the seventies integrates historical and ideological transformations justifies and legitimates this attempt at defining modernity and postmodernity. Modernity is to be understood as an aesthetics of rupture which puts meaning and dogmatic certainties on trial, disrupts space and time structures and alters viewpoints or perspectives. Postmodernity can thus be considered as a reaction against what has paradoxically become a tradition of rupture, that is to say as a rehabilitation or a reactivation of conventions and literary models which is nevertheless linked with subversion. Postmodernity is finally a narcissistic experiment which turns theatrical components into the subject matter of the very speeches of a play
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
Février, Jean. "Le théâtre en breton vannetais aux XVIIIeme et XIXeme siècles d'après les manuscrits de Vannes et Keranna." Rennes 2, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994REN20031.
Full textThe aim of this thesis is the study of the tragedies that were composed in Breton, in the Vannes dialect, in the eighteenth century and that were played successfully in a part of Morbihan until the middle of the nineteenth century. A first part deals with the economical and social situation of the environment during that period : this expression of popular culture developed in a rural society which was rather closed up on account of its particular dialect and which was strictly controlled by the catholic clergy. Then, the religious nature, the aims and the sources of the plays are explained as well as their importance compared with the contemporary literature written in the same dialect, the way they were spread, the personality of the people who copied the manuscripts, the places and the conditions of the performances, and finally the reasons why this theater declined. A second part analyses the nineteen well-known tragedies, their sources, some French models, the variantes, the particularities of the language in the manuscripts. Finally, annexed to this study, the reproduction of the manuscript texts of two significant tragedies will be found : "st Juliana’s martyrdom" and "the prodigal son" and, facing the texts, their transcription into "unified" spelling with some explanations. A summary in French is added to the thesis written in Breton
Di, Miceli Caroline. "Paragon of animals, quintessence of dust : images of the body in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama." Montpellier 3, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993MON30037.
Full textTHE WHEEL OF FORTUNE BRINGS MAN'S BODY FROM THE HEIGHT OF ITS strength AND INTELLECTUAL POWER TO ITS FINAL DECAY. THIS STUDY, WHOSE STRUCTURE WAS INSPIRED BY THIS IMAGE AND THAT OF THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN, WILL ATTEMPT TO FOLLOW THE BODY ON ITS DWNWARD PATH TO THE TOMB. THE ELIZABETHANS AND JACOBEANS HAD AN EXTREMELY COMPLEX ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE BODY THAT AROSE PARTLY FROM THE CONFLICT BETWEEN THE PHILOSOPHIES AND IDEAS OF THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE NEW DOCTRINES OF THE RENAISSANCE AND PARTLY FROM THE JUXTAPOSITION OF TWO CONTRADICTORY IMAGES AND THEIR ANTAGONISM : THE HEROIC BODY, BUILT IN THEIMAGE OF THE UNIVERSE, AND THE CORRUPTED, EVEN MONSTROUS BODY OF WHOSE WEIGHT THE SOUL DESIRED TO BE FREE. THIS ANTAGONISM CREATES THE DRAMATIC TENSION THAT IS CHARACTERISTIC OF THE PLAYS OF THE PERIOD AND PARTICULARLY THE TRAGEDIES. EACH PLAYWRIGHT USES THE PHILOSOPHICAL, RELIGIOUS AND MEDICAL THEORIES OF THE TIME TO CONSTRUCT HIS OWN IMAGE PF THE BODY. THE SOUL IS IMPRISONED IN ITS ENVELOPE OF FLESH, BUT THE ECHO OF THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES GIVES THE BODY AND SPIRIT THEIR HEROIC strength AND LIMITLESS AMBITION. FINALLY, BODY AND SOUL WILL BE RECONCILED AS THE ALLIED FORCES OF TIME AND IMAGINATION, FROM THE EPHEMERAL, CORRUPTIBLE ELEMENTS. CREATE THE BODY ETERNAL THAT HOUSES THE IMMORTAL SPIRIT
Scannapieco, Anna. "Contributo all'edizione critica e all'esegesi storica degli scritti di teoria teatrale di Carlo Gozzi." Paris 8, 2010. http://octaviana.fr/document/164373217#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0.
Full textIn the last decade there has been a proper “Gozzi Renaissance”. This study aims at giving a contribution to such “Renaissance” with a twofold purpose: to investigate an aspect of the author’s complex personality which the critics have ignored (or scornfully disdained) so far, and to offer a methodological contribution to the use of the imposing quantity of autograph writings which have been discovered recently and can be looked up in at the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice. After a preliminary definition of the texts which can be considered strictly theoretical, the investigation focuses on the introductory chapters on Carlo Gozzi’s reflexion on theatre, that is to say the preface to the translation of Baculard D’Arnaud’s Fajel and the promotional manifesto of the Colombani edition. The choice of the texts, illuminating preambles to Ragionamento ingenuo, has been greatly influenced by the consideration of their eclipse from the text tradition and the strong belief that they reveal, like a brightly clear miniature, the animus of Gozzi’s theoretical thought. The rigorous scrutiny of the manuscripts (which has very often been entrusted to confused fragments) and of the printed witnesses has allowed to identify the genetic process of the texts and to know the “behind the scenes” of Gozzi’s theoretical elaboration and stylistic lay out. Therefore the texts have been edited with grounded critical criteria and richly annotated with a linguistic-stylistic and historical-critical commentary. The final chapter is aimed at highlighting the fundamental ideas of the author’s theoretical thought and their unexpected modernity
Ronzani, Hélène. "Le théâtre de John O'Keeffe." Bordeaux 3, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000BOR30023.
Full textHillerin, Alexis de. "Image du roi, image du père dans le théâtre français du XVIIIe siècle (1715-1789)." Paris 4, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA040086.
Full textCiccia, Marie-Noelle. "Le théâtre de Molière au Portugal : de 1737 à la veille de la révolution libérale." Aix-Marseille 1, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001AIX10102.
Full textHeadland, 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
Reuter, Francesca. "Le débat sur les pratiques scéniques en Allemagne au début du XIXe siècle." Lyon 2, 2005. http://theses.univ-lyon2.fr/documents/lyon2/2005/reuter_f.
Full textFollowing a more general discussion of dramatic writing and the scenic acting in Germany during the 18th century, a new debate of decor, costumes, and theatrical effects appeared at the beginning of the 19th century and was mainly localized in Berlin, where two successive theatre directors A. W. Iffland (1796-1814) and K. V. Brühl (1815-28) attempted to reform scenic practises. This esthetic debate, even in 1816, appeared as a more concrete form of theatrical dispute in Berlin newspapers, allowing a larger diffusion of debate in the public arena. They were several participants including romantic writers, directors, intellectuals, and artists. The main goal of the Germans, construct a national theater of quality. Therefore, the directors made the choice of realism, historical truth and visual effects. They provoqued the opposing Romantics who acclaimed (inspired by the elizabethan stage) a sober non-historical decor, allowing the imagination to take flight. A consensus appeared rejecting the contrasting baroque esthetic proposed by the Italian decorators. Amongst pratical and theoretical propositions, certain ones (unity of show, respect for the spirit of the work) had already evoked in part the "mise-en-scène" that appeared toward the end of the 19th century. The debate itself was an important one. It introduced the problem of poor or rich, non-temporal or historical scenery, a problem that has traversed the history of theater up to present day
Pecorari, Marie. "Le Théâtre de Charles Ludlam (1943-1987)." Thesis, Paris 4, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA040194/document.
Full textThis monograph on the theatrical works of Charles Ludlam (1943-1987), playwright, actor, director and founder of the Ridiculous Theatrical Company (1967-1987) in New York City, aimes at exploring the poetic underpinnings of the plays. Based on the study of the works’ reception, of Ludlam’s archive an down commentaries, and above all, of the plays per se, our purpose was ton reexamine the validity of the critical judgements on works which have note been seriously reconsidered since their original opening. Distancing ourselves from the usual labels attached to the playwright (gay theatre, entertainment, parody) we show that any real understanding of Ludlam ought to rely on an confrontation with the tradition of and reflection on western theatre practices. Ludlam thus enjoyed an ambiguous and ambibalent relationship with the avant-garde milieu of which he was part, which accounts in part for the misundersandings to which his work has fallen prey
Bélorgey, Jean. "Le théâtre espagnol d'inspiration française représenté à Madrid de 1801 à 1808." Paris 4, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA040142.
Full textMills, Jonathan Charles. "Namiki Sôsuke (1695-1751), dramaturge de l’« âge d'or » du théâtre ningyô-jôruri." Thesis, Paris, INALCO, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020INAL0001.
Full textNamiki Sōsuke (also Namiki Senryū, 1695-1751) is considered to be the principal author of the most popular works of the “Golden Age” of the 1740 ningyō-jōruri theatre (puppet theatre). Sugawara and the Secrets of Calligraphy (1746), Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees (1747), and Chūshingura: The Treasury of Loyal Retainers (1748) were all written under his direction. There exists very little research on his work in Western languages, and to date there has been no comprehensive study of his oeuvre. This work attempts to fill the gap. In the first part, I examine the history of this theatre, the spaces of its production and representation, and the biographical data on Sôsuke. In the second part, I attempt to identify the principal features of this playwright’s work through analyses of his texts
Peytavy, Christian. "Les sainetes de Sebastián Vázquez : entre tradition et modernité (1773-1793)." Pau, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PAUU1013.
Full textSainetista still ignored, Sebastián Vázquez was the rival of Ramón de la Cruz in Madrid at least during the last third of the XVIIIth century. This work is the fruit of the systematic analysis of the manuscripts of the 72 sainetes we could join together. After a presentation of the trajectory of its production given in the theatrical context of its time, we tried to determinate, in a first part, the components of the spectacle and entertainment: the presence of the magic, war, varied spectacles, music, songs and dances, like with the comic processes, which they are visual or verbal. In a second part, we were interested in the relationship maintained between the sainetes and the society, starting by showing of them various anchorages in the topicality of the people, even if the festive idealization of the rural world is a fact. The universe of Vázquez is basically urban and we proved the prospect eminently popular adopted by the sainetista. That appears not only in the choice of its characters (few petimetres and usías, and a crowd of craftsmen, majas, maidservants and servants, etc. ) but also in the sets of themes approached, the permanent research of food and money by often illicit means, and the love life in all its forms. Vázquez is consequently to a large extent the heir to entremés, even if he couldn't be indifferent to the evolution of the sainetes, under the influence of Cruz, the requirements of neo-classic and the weight of the censure
Grimberg, Michel. "La réception de la comédie française du XVIIIe siècle dans l'aire germanophone de 1694 à 1799, vue à travers les traductions et leurs préfaces." Paris 4, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA040210.
Full textRather than a study in translation theory, this work is a history of the German poetical debate on French comedy in the XVIIIth century. It is based upon the French plays chosen by German translators and on a corpus of 137 prefaces that they wrote for the publication of their translations. The sheer number of translations (over 500 involving more than 120 playwrights in 1300 different editions) made it necessary to exercise selection. Particular attention is given to prefaced comedies; however, other works which were translated several times and also left their mark are considered too. Analysis is grounded on the theory of cultural transfer. In the first period (1694-1724), the translations of French comedies were mainly instrumental in legitimizing the comic genre. Over the second phase (1725-1759), German receivers gradually established a French cultural reference that was used as a model and basis in the creation of regular German comedy. French plays of the late period (17601799) were mostly translated in order to broaden the repertoires of theatres in the German-speaking area. However, if each of the [. . . ]
Hourmant-Le, Bever Nathalie. "Le théâtre de Steven Berkoff : une esthétique de la rupture." Rennes 2, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000REN20043.
Full textThe @theatre of Steven Berkoff is based on a central notion that of rupture, this distinctive feature is certainly one of the most remarkable staples of his theatre. Moreover the playwright was once quoted as saying " art should not ever begin to express some balanced thing, art is schizophrenic ". This statement legitimates and justifies this attempt at defining his theatre according to this principle. The similarities between schizophrenia and Berkoff's theatrical world are striking and numerous. Thanks to several immutable theatrical and linguistic rules Steven Berkoff has elaborated an aesthetics of rupture. His theatre is a portrait of the world of the schizophrenic along with a provocative commentary on modernist and postmodernist culture. A threefold approach has been chosen in this work. First we will study the different influences which have shaped Berkoff's theatre. Then we shall focus attention on the notion of world catastrophe which is of primary importance in his plays. A second part will deal with language and its main features. In the last part we will first survey the way in which Steven Berkoff treats sexuality and violence and then concentrate on Steven Berkoff himself and his ambivalent relationships with the journalists
Croft, Marie-Ange. "Edme Boursault : de la farce à la fable (1661-1701)." Thesis, Paris 10, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA100105/document.
Full textEntre la mort de Molière et l’avènement de Marivaux, le théâtre connaît de profondes modifications. S’inscrivant dans le sillage des travaux de François Moureau, Christian Biet et Guy Spielmann sur la dramaturgie fin de règne, cette thèse s’intéresse à la manière dont s’est effectué le passage de la comédie classique à la comédie fin de règne. En prenant l’exemple d’Edme Boursault (1638-1701), écrivain mineur du XVIIe siècle, elle entend mettre en lumière une double trajectoire, celle d’un genre et celle d’un auteur. L’étude repose sur l’hypothèse selon laquelle le corpus comique de Boursault, produit entre 1661 et 1701, conserve les marques des mutations esthétiques qui a mené au théâtre fin de règne. Il s’agit donc de comprendre les enjeux qui ont conduit à un renouvellement de l’écriture dramaturgique, mais aussi d’observer la manière dont pouvait se construire une carrière littéraire chez un écrivain mineur de la seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle. Depuis ses premières comédies et farces (Le médecin volant, Le Mort vivant, Le jaloux endormy) jusqu’à ses comédies moralisantes (Les Fables d’Esope, Esope à la Cour), Boursault a su s’adapter aux changements que connaissent la société française et le théâtre, et a mis en œuvre diverses stratégies, tant sociales que littéraires. Par le moyen de l’histoire littéraire, entre sociologie de la littérature, poétique des genres et théorie de la réception, la thèse se penche sur les réseaux de sociabilité de Boursault (salons précieux, cercles littéraires, mécénat) et analyse son théâtre comique, tout en tenant compte des conditions de représentation et de la réception du public. L’étude tend à démontrer que cette évolution dramaturgique s’est faite graduellement, souvent au prix d’une coexistence de deux esthétiques au sein d’une même œuvre. Cherchant à mesurer l’apport de Boursault à la comédie et au comique du XVIIe siècle, la thèse révèle que le passage du classicisme au fin de règne implique chez le dramaturge un changement de stratégie. Entre 1660 et 1700, l’auteur passe en effet d’une stratégie du cursus où ses tendances polygraphiques le placent, à une stratégie du succès misant sur l’innovation et l’originalité. Ce faisant, l’écrivain explore les limites d’un genre qu’il participe à redéfinir, tant sur le plan de la structure et des thématiques que sur celui des personnages et du comique. L’examen du passage de la farce classique à la comédie moralisante, celui du comique burlesque au rire jaune du XVIIIe siècle positionne donc indéniablement Boursault comme un écrivain de transition. Transition entre l’esthétique classique et l’esthétique fin de règne, on s’en doute, mais aussi, en parallèle, entre la poétique classique-fin de règne, et celle des Lumières
Entre la mort de Molière et l’avènement de Marivaux, le théâtre connaît de profondes modifications. S’inscrivant dans le sillage des travaux de François Moureau, Christian Biet et Guy Spielmann sur la dramaturgie fin de règne, cette thèse s’intéresse à la manière dont s’est effectué le passage de la comédie classique à la comédie fin de règne. En prenant l’exemple d’Edme Boursault (1638-1701), écrivain mineur du XVIIe siècle, elle entend mettre en lumière une double trajectoire, celle d’un genre et celle d’un auteur. L’étude repose sur l’hypothèse selon laquelle le corpus comique de Boursault, produit entre 1661 et 1701, conserve les marques des mutations esthétiques qui a mené au théâtre fin de règne. Il s’agit donc de comprendre les enjeux qui ont conduit à un renouvellement de l’écriture dramaturgique, mais aussi d’observer la manière dont pouvait se construire une carrière littéraire chez un écrivain mineur de la seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle. Depuis ses premières comédies et farces (Le médecin volant, Le Mort vivant, Le jaloux endormy) jusqu’à ses comédies moralisantes (Les Fables d’Esope, Esope à la Cour), Boursault a su s’adapter aux changements que connaissent la société française et le théâtre, et a mis en œuvre diverses stratégies, tant sociales que littéraires. Par le moyen de l’histoire littéraire, entre sociologie de la littérature, poétique des genres et théorie de la réception, la thèse se penche sur les réseaux de sociabilité de Boursault (salons précieux, cercles littéraires, mécénat) et analyse son théâtre comique, tout en tenant compte des conditions de représentation et de la réception du public. L’étude tend à démontrer que cette évolution dramaturgique s’est faite graduellement, souvent au prix d’une coexistence de deux esthétiques au sein d’une même œuvre. Cherchant à mesurer l’apport de Boursault à la comédie et au comique du XVIIe siècle, la thèse révèle que le passage du classicisme au fin de règne implique chez le dramaturge un changement de stratégie. Entre 1660 et 1700, l’auteur passe en effet d’une stratégie du cursus où ses tendances polygraphiques le placent, à une stratégie du succès misant sur l’innovation et l’originalité. Ce faisant, l’écrivain explore les limites d’un genre qu’il participe à redéfinir, tant sur le plan de la structure et des thématiques que sur celui des personnages et du comique. L’examen du passage de la farce classique à la comédie moralisante, celui du comique burlesque au rire jaune du XVIIIe siècle positionne donc indéniablement Boursault comme un écrivain de transition. Transition entre l’esthétique classique et l’esthétique fin de règne, on s’en doute, mais aussi, en parallèle, entre la poétique classique-fin de règne, et celle des Lumières
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