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Teulade, Anne. "Le théâtre hagiographique en France et en Espagne au dix-septième siècle : essai de poétique comparée." Paris 4, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA040179.
Full textThis dissertation presents a comparative study of the French and Spanish seventeenth century hagiographic drama. The first part is devoted to the theoretical problems raised by the two genres : a study of the generic terminologies, of the places where the plays were staged, and of the way their contemporaries (theorists and playwrights) considered them thus allows us to draw the outline of an essentially hybrid theatre. Indeed, in the two countries, it seems contradictory to associate a saint's life and a theatrical form. The second part presents a dramatic analysis of the plays. We show how the authors managed to integrate the figure of the saint in a real dramatic plot despite his passionless nature. The structures of the dramas rely on a conflict between the saint and his circle, on a conversion of the hero himself, or on a series of adventures through which the saint becomes an epic hero. This part reveals that the theatrical forms created by the French and the Spanish authors are less divergent than the traditional opposition between Spanish and French aesthetics of this period suggests. Finally, the third part deals with the spectacle of saintliness. We study how the playwrights succeeded in transforming the inward and unspectacular character of the saint into a living spectacle before the other characters' eyes. Being a perfect character, this specific hero cannot arouse the fear and pity Aristotle described and generates instead works in which admiration is the prominent aesthetic effect. These works thus rely on specific poetics which this dissertation attempts to define
Douguet, Marc. "La composition dramatique : La liaison des scènes dans le théâtre français du XVIIe siècle." Thesis, Paris 8, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA080114/document.
Full textIn the seventeenth century, dramatic composition, that is, the art of introducing characters on stage in a specific order to relate a story, was revolutionized in the period around 1640 by the establishment of the rule for linking scenes. This new rule decreed that within one act, at least one a character must appear in the two successive scenes. This rule completely changed the aspect of plays in the long term. It imposed an aesthetics of continuity that broke with the discontinuity that had prevailed up until then. In plays from the beginning of the century, action progressed by the juxtaposition of scenes that each presented different characters, thus permitting the playwright to introduce abrupt changes in place, time, and situation. On the contrary, the plays that respect the rule of connection between scenes can no longer count on the intermission alone to renew completely the characters present on stage. Within each act, the action must evolve by successive shifts in meaning, each scene conserving a part of the parameters of the preceding scene. By shedding light on the choices the playwright confronts, the difference between these two aesthetics bares witness to the importance of dramatic composition: writing a play is not simply imagining a plot, but rather giving it a visual form and specifically a theatrical one. This dissertation thesis, then, is interested in both the stakes of the rule for linking scenes itself, and more generally, in the poetics of the positioning of scenes, and in dramatic “editing” with which the playwright engages in order to give body to fiction
Goursolas, 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
Verdier, Anne. "Poétique de l'habit de théâtre en France (1606-1680) : contribution à l'histoire du vêtement." Paris 10, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA100045.
Full textThis dissertation purports to contribute to the history of dress and the history of drama by examining a particular type of dress, i. E. , that worn on the urban stage in the 17th century, in order to establish its specificity. The first section of the dissertation will address the context of a society based on appearances, and characterized by specific dress will serve as the conceptual framework within which to focus more specifically on the question of the theatrical costume, and on that of its competing with the social costume. .
Chaouche, Sabine. "L'actio dramatique dans l'ancien théâtre français (1629-1680) [déclaration et gestuelle du comédien]." Paris 4, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA040031.
Full textMongenot, Christine. ""Conversations" et "Proverbes" : le théâtre de Madame de Maintenon ou la naissance du théâtre d'éducation." Paris 12, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA120065.
Full textBetween 1686 and 1719, Madame de Maintenon composed two series of short aducational plays entitled respectively "Conversations" and "Proverbs". Initially written for the Demoiselles of Saint-Cyr, i. E. , for an aristocratic public, these dramatic dialogues were conceived for the moral education of female boarding school students. Eventually, they were also used as practical exercises to improve politeness. A new literary style is thus created, the educational theatre, greatly followed in the next century. This type of plays issued from pre-existing literary forms, were inspired by civility used in the polite upper class society during the second part of the seventeenth century. The Maintenonian theatre play appropriates these models and adapts them to its pedagogical project : it institutes the child as its main character and as its privileged addressee
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
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
Guillot, 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)
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 textBlocker, Déborah. "Usages de la comédie : utilités et plaisirs de la représentation théâtrale dans la France du premier XVIIe siècle (1630-1660)." Paris 3, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA030152.
Full textIn the critical writings on theater produced in seventeenth century France, the definition of the social and political functions of theater constantly prefaces the description of the theatrical means through which these ends could be met. Theater is thus defined first and foremost through its social and political instrumentality. This study investigates the origins and historical significance of such a conception of theater. It first underlines that Cardinal Richelieu's encouragement of the production of theoretical writings on theater, but also his efforts to produce a new court theater and his attempt to create new regulations concerning the legal status of professional comedians can all be undestood as endeavors to achieve a political rationalization of the practice of theater. This study then proceeds to examine if and how the different functions then assigned to theater where effectively achieved. .
Marque, Nathalie-Gabrielle. "Étude et édition critique du theâtre de Fatouville (1681-1687)." Bordeaux 3, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007BOR30011.
Full textAnne Mauduit de Fatouville, a Counsellor of the Cour des Aides de Rouen, first wrote scenes and then full plays for the Italian Comedy at the end of the seventeenth century in Paris. Since he was the very first to provide the Great Arlequin’s Company with scenes in French, he played a major part in the story of the Commedia dell’arte in France. The main introduction tries to make the specificities and the evolution of this theatre stand out in order to understand how it succeeded in charming the audience of that time better. While analysing the components of the performances and the language, it endeavours to bring this fin de siècle theatre back to life- a theatre which mirrors a world, a snapshot of daily life at that time with all its specificities which are so many ingredients fostering laughter. Not only has each published comedy got its critical edition, but it is also preceded by a presentation that brings its characteristics to light. The published plays make up a whole thanks to Dominique Biancolleli’s outstanding performance of Arlequin. Thus the plays deal with the period between 1680 and 1687. Despite the fact that the first plays are very much incomplete due to a great amount of scenes played in the Italian language, it nevertheless brings out how could be a performance at the Hotel de Bourgogne. Arlequin Mercure Galant (1681) resorts very much to mythology while La Matrone d’Ephese (1682) met with success thanks to its bitter satire of legal matters. We take delight in the production of Arlequin lingère du Palais (1682), in the satirical tone of Arlequin Protée (1683), in the wonderland of Arlequin Empereur dans la lune (1684), in the parodical style and the machinery of Arlequin Jason ou la toison d’or comique (1684), and in the realistic tone of Arlequin Chevalier du Soleil (1685). Colombine avocat pour et contre (1685), which is the most complete play, stages Scaramouche’s famous scaring lazzi. Finally, we have only but few scenes of Isabelle Médecin (1685) which testifies to the increasing importance of the feminine character and to the interest in feelings
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
Giannouli, Angeliki. "La Grèce antique sur la scène française dans la première moitié du XIXe siècle." Paris 8, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA082834.
Full textThis study aims at enlightening the image of ancient Greece the way the French scene represented it during the first half of the 19th century, between 1797 ant 1873. A historical and dramaturgic analysis handling with a hundred of plays attempts to demonstrate how a reinterpretation and a reappraisal of the antique Greek hero and topics drawn out of mythology are gradually structured, besides the doctrine of the French classical theater's imitation. The grouping of performances by dramatic genders and mythological cycles having been given at the Opera, the Odeon, the Comédie Française or even on popular stages throws light on this renewal of interest in Greece by revealing changes in mentality, procedures, esthetic aspect and yet in politics. Back from the last imitations of tragedies to the first theatrical productions of ancient Greek authors, going through restructured plot of dramas, comedies and vaudevilles, in which the romantics often got the best part, the thesis follows the variations and the new requests of the stage and the theatrical writing
Déléris, Alban. "La France au miroir de l'Angleterre : poétiques de l'hybridation dans le théâtre français (1590-1640)." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015MON30027.
Full textFrance maintains with its English neighbor, between the mid-sixteenth century and the early 1640’s, constantrelationships, both political and cultural. Despite the religious troubles and the wars shaking the western Europe duringthis period, despite linguistic barriers, many travelers, diplomats, intellectuals and writers cross the frontiers. Thesecultural travelers leave France to go abroad, to the other side of the Channel : they eventually learn the Englishlanguage, carry out various missions and, above all, they become the actors of the cultural relationship between the twocountries.This influence is also evident through conceptions and hybrid practices of theater. Poetics of mixing, of formaland generic hybridizations are characteristic of the English theater during the Elizabethan and Jacobean period. Authorslike Marlowe, Greene, Shakespeare and Webster experiment new dramatic formulas that invite us to reconsider andrelativize the traditional poetic categories. Tragedy, comedy or tragicomedy are not absent as generic designations, butthey are the medias and instruments of combinations, and of multiple and various blends. Thus, the different ways ofmixing and mingling in the English theater make possible a different look at the dramatic production in France duringthe late XVIth and early 17th century. Indeed, the plays written during this long unrecognized period of the Frenchtheater, show a hybridity as marked as in the English plays and they reflect the great diversity of forms and dramaticgenres. This theater, which does not conform to the critical categories and dramatic principles formulated by theoristsand commentators of Aristotle, is characterized by its irregularity, the porosity of its generic categories and by a desireto adapt to the constraints of the theatrical life.Finally, the study focuses on the premises of a more thorough analysis of organic links between the medievaland popular theater and the French theater at the dawn of the 17th century. Thus, what we call « monster theater »,because of its bounds with the political, symbolic and aesthetic figure of the monster and its various configurations,allows us to compare, in France and England, plays that are characterized by their ab-normality, their playful dimensionand their metatheatrality, far away from the Aristotelian tradition and its constraints. In this way, we are led to considerthe French theater according to its geographical and linguistic diversity, but also from the perspective of its historicalcontinuities
Barbillon, Chrystelle. "Mode narratif, mode dramatique : l’adaptation théâtrale de fiction narrative au XVIIe siècle en France." Thesis, Paris 4, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA040006.
Full textOften dismissed as the production of second-hand literature, though constantly used by modern stage directors and playwrights, adaptation has frequently been neglected by critics; barely theorised by those who practice it, it has been approached with an approximate definition. Through the study of thirty novels and short stories − ranging from Honoré d'Urfé's L’Astrée (1607-1625) to Saint-Réal’s Dom Carlos (1672) − and the study of some eighty theatrical adaptations, this work analyses the theatrical adaptation of narrative fictions as a coherent writing practice, which each and every play embodies in a different way. Starting with a clear definition of what theatrical adaptation means, then proceeding with a careful reading of the works and a detailed review of contemporary theories, we build tools to analyse this corpus and avoid the aporias adaptation theories have usually been confronted with. This reading of adaptation, based on rhetorics, enables us to follow the process of adaptative writing step by step through its various techniques − from the selection of material within the novel to the designing and actual writing of the play to its final staging. Thus we define the poetics of a transmodal adaptation, which reinvents the working of rhetorical categories and questions the potentiality of drama as a semiotic medium. Adaptation therefore challenges literary genres − sometimes confirming their topoï, sometimes creating new forms − and thus tackles aesthetics-related issues. Theatrical adaptation appears as a field of literary experimentation and formal innovation, within which intertextual references reverberate and multiply in various levels of reading. Exhibiting its second-hand nature and therefore its literary quality, theatrical adaptation rightly deserves to be read as a major contribution to the French seventeenth-century dramatic literature, to which it gives back its density and richness
Plagnol-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
Forsans, 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
Hillerin, 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 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
Rico-Osés, Clara. "L'image de l'Espagne en France au XVIIe siècle : les sources musicales éclairées par les témoignages historiques, diplomatiques, littéraires et picturaux (1610-1674)." Paris 4, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA040133.
Full textThis current study analyses the presence and image of Spain in the French cultural life of the 17th century, and in particular, in the musical sources. The complex relationships between France and Spain throughout this century provide a negative perception of the Spanish people, which is studied here not only from a musicological perspective, but also from a multidisciplinary analysis, taking into account historical, literary and artistic sources. The engravings and the propagandistic literature of the first-half of this century support the anti-Spanish image perceived in the librettos of ballets de cour during the same epoch. Such clichés will not be present in the sources of Louis XIV's reign, mainly from 1659 on (Paix des Pyrénées). Nonetheless, Spain left its particular stamp as a " mode à l'espagnole " (Spanish fashion). The phenomenon is here mostly represented by a corpus of Spanish-language airs de cour, as well as by a regular presence of Spanish-origin dances in the ballets de cour of Jean-Baptiste Lully, although fully frenchified. Lastly, the physical presence of Spanish people in the French courtier performances of the 17th century, represented by the Spanish theatre companies that travelled to France on the occasion of the wedding between Louis XIV and Marie-Thérèse d'Autriche in 1660, will be analysed
Triolaire, Cyril. "Fêtes officielles, théâtres et spectacles de curiosités dans le 11ème arrondissement théâtral impérial pendant le Consulat et l'Empire." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008CLF20009.
Full textThis study aims analyzing the official festivals, the theatres and the "spectacle de curiosités" in the eleventh theatrical and imperial district uring the Consulate and the First Empire. He was a tragedy lover who took on the legacy of the Revolution and yet who openly revived the monarchic ceremonials, the First Consul resorted immoderately to propaganda. Official festivities and shows were abundantly used so as to stage power, to control and watch people's minds. Inthe heart of the Empire, this study focuses on the way the imperial worship was developed thanks to the festivals, the theatres and the companies between the year VIII and 1815. About strengthening the devotion for Napoleon and those of the decrees voted in June 1806 and April 1807 about the theatrical life in the departments. This work studies the political relations between Paris and the provinces, highlighting people's obvious reluctance to respect the calendar of the festivals or the theatrical censorship. It shows how the official culture was spread connected to the economical and financial constraints and the local traditions and opinions. Is presents e new sociology of the main actors in the festivities. It studies the planned places, the repertoires and the speeches. And it shows how the official messages were transmitted and how they were received by the people : their approval or their objection as well as the dramatic criticisms. This study thus tries to present a new cultural history of the politics and of its cultural practices at the time of the Consulate and of the First Empire
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 textLabeille, Veronique. "« Un soir, ils allèrent au théâtre... » Scènes de théâtre dans les romans France-Québec, 1871-1949." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011LYO20060/document.
Full textThe theater scene, key element of several novels yet unexplored, questions the bounds between the medium and the œuvre within. Supported by a corpus made of French and French Canadian novels published between 1871 and 1949, this work argues the recurrent specificities of the theater scene, whatever the time, the aesthetics or the place from which the novelist writes. Becoming a privileged topos for the text that operates « a return on itself », the questions of reflexivity and specularity enlighten what theater can do to the text. From a sociocritic reading articulating social and art matters, our study on the theater scene covers not only the dramatic art’s aspect but also the theater aspect thought as a social classification tool. The costume, the body of the artist, the lights, but also the theatrical spaces, the category of public and the society life happening in the theater hall are, if anything else, some facets our work would like to point out. The prism of the theater scene once revealed goes beyond the interiority of art and the exteriority of the social behavior through and thanks to the body. Between what André Belleau calls the « code » and the « parole (speech)», the theater scene embodies both aspects, links them both tight and goes past them thanks to the bodies that are both eroticized and socialized
Arnason, Arni Lukas. "L’Encadrement théâtral : une étude de la pratique et de la fonction herméneutique du parathéâtre en France au XVIIe siècle." Thesis, Paris 4, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA040154.
Full textLiterary studies of theatre have tended to focus on the play itself as though it were the only element of the representation. In reality, however, seventeenth century plays were almost always “framed” by various paratheatrical ornaments such as prologues, epilogues, choruses and intermèdes. Together the play and its complementary encadrements formed a dramatic whole. The purpose of this thesis is twofold. We will first undertake a practical study of each paratheatrical form in order to determine exactly how it was integrated into the performance and what its practical function was perceived to be. We will then analyse the way in which encadrements influence the interpretation of the play. The primary interest of this study is to illustrate the way in which paratheatre is used to direct the spectator’s interpretation. We hope to demonstrate the interest of these “frames” as guides left by the authors and actors of the Grand Siècle, helping us to better understand the meaning of dramatic works as they were perceived in their own time
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
Lo, Shih-Lung. "La Chine dans le théâtre français du XIXe siècle." Thesis, Paris 3, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA030030/document.
Full textFrom 1789 to 1905, China is one of the most exotic topics represented on the French theater stage. This China can evoke the imagination inherited from the eighteenth-century “chinoiseries” taste. And moreover, it witnesses the nineteenth-century Sino-French socio-political events, which are never detached from the rising colonialism or even the Orientalism.This work attempts to build up a repertoire of Chinese-subject plays, and to analyze the production and the reception of the Chinese image on the French theatre stage during the nineteenth century. The corpus of the entire repertoire can be divided into three categories: the French playwright’s creation, the plays translated or adapted from Chinese literary works, and the performances given by Chinese actors. Chronologically organized, each chapter in this work follows the decisive Sino-French bilateral events. The first three chapters examine the Chinese and Oriental elements which have been applied to the French theatre in the previous centuries, and which are reinvented and appropriated under the influence of Sinology, a new scientific discipline institutionalized in the first half of the nineteenth century. The last three chapters develop with the two Opium Wars, the Sino-French War in Vietnam, the Boxer’s rebellion, as well as the birth of the concept of the “yellow peril.”For the playwrights and the artists, this “China” is therefore familiar but strange, approachable but intangible, cliché but ever-changing, exhausted but exploitable. All these contradictions contribute to create a kaleidoscopic China on the French theatre stage
Dennis, Hélène. "Le XIXe siècle français face à ses acteurs : mort et fortune des grands interprètes de la Comédie en activité sous la Restauration, à travers la presse parisienne." Versailles-St Quentin en Yvelines, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008VERS002S.
Full textThe French XIXth Century assigned the theatre a foremost place, specially the comic genre. It became the vector for social and individual forceful trends. Hence, the death of a once famous actor enlightens him as well as those who survive him. Words and attendance to the burial display recollection and oblivion, the look put on an art and his artists placed until then under secular bias. The death ritual replace the dead among a cultural nebula very dense and show a man often exemplary of his century with his respectable way of life – a new look and position. The result of the actors’ thoughts and fight through professional associating, promotion of their art history, helped with the soar of the press. The journalists were often playwrights and part of the audience such the attraction for the drama was strong
Nishida, Shikiko. "Les "comédiens-poètes" en France du XVIIe siècle." Thesis, Paris 4, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA040113.
Full textWe count in total twenty-two actors-authors, including two women, from the last third part of the XVIth century until the creation of la Comédie-Française in 1680, so upon a hundred years period of time. To understand the birth and then the rising of this actors’ very writting way, we start to study in the prologue Chateauvieux and Hardy’s plays’ first productions’ conditions at the beginning of the century. In the first part, we study the emergence of this practice among parisian actors around 1640 through Desfontaines and Montfleury. In the second part, we light up the important role of plays made to order as well as the institutions while strolling actors-authors emerging in 1650 and 1662. To that purpose we use archivic methods revealing us relationships between Des Carreaux, Dorimond and Rochefort, three contemporaneous actors-authors of Molière, and also provincial parties’ sponsors. In the third part, still with archives’help, we mainly follow Dorimond, Rosidor and Rochefort’s activities around 1660. We study the competition between them in La Haye and Bruxelles regarding their own plays’s first productions as well as authors’plays revival, especially plays with stage effects. In the epilogue, we light up the specificity of the actors-authors writting way, quite different from the authors’way, through the analysis of Villiers, Madeleine Béjart, La Thorillière’s works, all chance actors-authors, and we find out the writting swiftness of actors-authors generally speaking
Motošková, Miroslava. "Vývoj činoherního žánru melodramatu a pronikání francouzského repertoáru na českou scénu v letech 1800-1883." Paris 8, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA082613.
Full textChen, Jie. "Le théâtre et le pouvoir au XVIIe siècle : le patronage en question." Thesis, Paris 4, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA040076/document.
Full textWe studied in this work the concrete ways in which are expressed the relations between the power and the theater in the seventeenth century, when this art was already associated with the principle of mass distribution which allows it to flourish regardless of patronage. As the theater is both a practice and a literature, our investigation was conducted in two stages. We are primarily interested in professional actors, most of whom have formed theatre troops bearing the name of a powerful man. This reality seems a priori obvious is nevertheless revealing. The history of the Royal troupe of Hôtel de Bourgogne is a prime example. Other smaller companies maintain also close relations with their protectors. This is for example the case of the theater troop of Great Condé that we studied. But most of the time, these touring companies are not close to their patrons. Rather, they are in contact with other bodies of power, especially the municipal power. Thus the first part of our work ends with two case studies on Dijon and Brussels, two favorite destinations of theater troops. After studying the actors, our investigation continues by focusing on playwrights. The question of relations between playwrights and patrons is part of a vast subject that is the literary patronage in general. We tried to illustrate it through the example of the patronage of Richelieu, preceded by a preliminary inquiry into the question of dedication who served our whole second part
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
Jaziri, Anissa. "Drôlerie et noblesse : l'esthétique et l'éthique du corps des aristocrates à l'épreuve des dramaturgies comiques et tragi-comiques du XVIIe siècle français." Thesis, Paris 10, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA100004/document.
Full textWhile the body of the common people has inspired many sociological and anthropological approaches, our research has focused on the study of the body image of aristocratic characters in french seventeenth century comic and tragic dramaturgies.Although the often heroic presence of this social category is part of the so-called "noble" genre of tragedy, it is, and according to a long Aristotelian tradition, banned from the comic genre considered more susceptible to the mediocre, even the ugly, physical and moral, and to consider things of the body. Based on a corpus of sixty comedies and tragicomedies dating from 1629 to 1690, our study of the physical images of the nobles then leads to a particular aesthetic that makes us question the compatibility between the often idealizing representation of the "honest men" and laughter. However, to highlight the pleasant presence of the noble body on stage, we referred to a more subtle notion than the comic, that of the drollery which lies between the approval of the celebration of the beauties of the aristocrats concerned by the action and the pleasant awareness of the excesses of this perfection, between the disconcerting inventiveness, even the grandeur, of the nobles who disguise themselves and the bursts of laughter inspired by some of their bodily or natural defects or failures, between the amused spectacle of their sensuality little annoyed or casual, the exultation aroused by their militant libertinism, which makes you think, and a kind of unease in front of the cynicism of the few, between the admiration of the talents of actors allowing good tricks, thanks to a beautiful gestural dexterity, and the jubilation inspired by the success of well-born protagonists. The stakes become even higher when it comes to the desire for freedom that the bodies express on stage, especially those of women when violent excesses or hypocritical behavior are represented. So many rich impressions that amplifies the setting in space and in voice by actors who also let hear a kind of mystery of the words. All the shades of drollery, of a comic that we perceive as a little strange, seem to have been experienced by our dramatic poets to bring the nobles to the comic scene and, at one time, to the mixed genre of tragi-comedy
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
Glinska, Klementyna Aura. "La "comédie latine" du XIIe siècle : rhétorique et comique." Thesis, Paris 4, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA040163.
Full textThe corpus of ‘elegiac comedies’, or 12th and 13th-century ‘Latin comedies’, was perceived as an anthology of some curious texts, the literary tradition of which was, nevertheless, clearly defined. Indeed, the notion of 'elegiac comedy’ designates the theatrical tradition as a point of reference, which is essential for the formation of' the ‘genre’. The objective of this thesis is to deconstruct the concept of ‘elegiac comedy’ and to describe the 12th-century texts of the corpus in exact accordance with their historicity. The word ‘comic’ refers here to comoedia as a historical phenomenon and not to some categories of anthropological, philosophical or psychological nature; the ‘laughter’ is not but one of the possible answers. The revision of the sources fundamental for the formation of medieval knowledge of ancient comedy as well as the interpretation of 12th- and 13th-century poetriae help to shed light on the meaning of the term comoedia employed both by the authors of comoediae from the Loire Valley and by their readers. The study of the relations of the elegiac comedies with the tradition of ancient comedy involves, moreover, the examination of their paratexts and co-texts, the body of which is determined by the preserved manuscripts. Thus, the analysis of the historical, ideological and theoretical context, as well as the study of manuscripts of the elegiac comedies, define these compositions as the texts that form and embody the rhetorical and ethical rules exhibited in the poetriae
L'hopital, Servane. "Toucher le coeur : confrontations du théâtre et des pratiques de piété en France au XVIIe siècle." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015LYO20121.
Full textThe confrontation between liturgy and theater is a topos of the discourses which reveal deeply-rooted issues of representation in the seventeenth century. This commonplace had been a recurrent rhetorical device in the patristic sermons, where it emphasized the differences between Christianity and paganism. It is vigorously reactivated in seventeenth-century France as the Catholic Church faces its Calvinist critics, who accuse mass of being a comedy. Profane theater becomes a regular and professional kind of entertainment in the city and at the court, thanks to the protection of the royal power. This is why it is seen by Augustinians as a recurrent “lively representation” of the values of the world, such as love and honor, which are contradictory to the celestial Christian spirit. Treatises against Comedy written by Christian zealots reveal not only a moral, but also an emotional and psychological competition between liturgical practices and theater. Both “representations” try to force the presence of the mind and to touch, or even to print, the heart. The mass is then qualified as the “lively representation” of the Passion of the Christ, during which Catholic prayers must commemorate the mystery of divine sacrifice. By considering and acting out ceremonies, by vocalizing prayers, the believer is invited to produce certain acts of the heart and to unite with Christ, applying the Christ’s sacrifice to himself. Thus, the believer can be assimilated to an existential comedian on the divine stage : he actively involves his sensibility in the imitation of the great Christian model, by entering into the spirit of the psalms. This relationship to the text as a vestige to follow, this use of the voice and the body as mediums to excite devotion, explain the condemnation of the professional comedian by the Christian zealots (dévots). Indeed, the comedian is seen as someone who excites his own passions, playing a dangerous game with his heart and reminding himself of former worldly passions which can only lessen his faith.The reestablishment of theater questions the legitimacy, the definition and the goals of this art in a Christian society. Translating mimesis by “representation” and not “imitation” brought the theater closer to the liturgy. The discourses on theater in the 1620s and 1630s show that the authors tended to see a memorial, reiterative and visual dimension in theater that was not present in Aristotle. The debates finally conclude on the definition of theater as an honest form of entertainment rather than as a living form of instruction, namely because the latter was the responsibility of predication and mass. Saint Thomas could justify theater as a way of merely releasing the mind without interesting the heart or touching the soul ; at that time, indeed, instruction meant Christian instruction. In the 1640s, to please the devout Spanish queen Anne of Austria, several playwrights did attempt to call back the theater to its former institutional position by assimilating it with religious ceremony and creating sanctified tragedies. But this attempt failed for both poetic and political reasons. The disposition of the spectators in the city was not to be instructed. The theater was finally recognized as incompatible with Christian folly and modesty, but slowly participated in the formation of a secular morality in a new civic sphere
Rodriguez, Alain. "Theatralite et romanesque dans l'oeuvre d'a. R. Lesage." Paris 4, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA040098.
Full textAs a prolific novelist and playwright, lesage is a well-informed and amused observer of the belles lettres. His observation of the literary society draws on this double experience, with a satirical purpose far more distinct in his writings on the theatre. His experience as a dramatic writer at the comedie francaise and above all at the theatre de la foire is however of great use to the novelist. By setting the main plot of le diable boiteux in a nocturnal madrid seen through the eyes of the devil and the scholar, lesage substitutes a voyeur for the traditional narrator, which means that the angle of vision is no longer that of the normal confrontation to be found in the italian theatre, but a view from above. Thus lesage gives new life, significantly, to the narrative process, now conceived on the pattern of a playlet. The playwright hides behind the moralist. His theatre conveys metaphorical meanings and makes it possible to expose a society for which only appearances matter. Disguise, misappropriation of food and false names partake of this widespread delusion. The theme varies according to social background. Clothes , whether they are disguise or theft, help transform appearances and thus make it easy to usurp roles. Being a probationary stage in the development of an individual, they help him master social behaviour. As a novelist lesage used a range of techniques which he borrowed, to a large extent, from the picaresque tradition. In order to introduce some variety in the limited fictional material provided by autobiographical narratives, he used two devices : on the one hand, he diversified the nature of the episodes the lower-class hero goes through as he climbs the social ladder; on the other hand, he introduced new heroes thanks to embedded stories. Because of its very success, lesage's work of fiction has given rise to numerous illustrated editions published in his lifetime. Though they are definitely not great artists, the illustrators are skilful and humble craftsmen, sometimes anonymous, who are constantly eager to give a clear and accurate account of the text of which they are only the servants
Mhidi, Najla. "lire le théâtre d'alexandre dumas." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016MON30077.
Full textI study the alexandre Dumas's theater, the relationship beetween author and his public
Caigny, Florence de. "Imitation, traduction et adaptation des tragédies de Sénèque aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles en France." Paris 4, 2004. http://ezproxy.normandie-univ.fr/login?url=http://www.classiques-garnier.com/numerique-bases/garnier?filename=FcaMS01.
Full textThe influence of Seneca's drama in XVIth and XVIIth century France is both surprising and paradoxical. Between the revival of French tragedy in 1553 and its renovation in the late 1620s, authors drew on his works for their own productions, and continued to do so after the debate over the French classical rules had taken place. However, from the middle of the XVIth century onward, theorists became increasingly critical of his works. Seneca gradually lost his position as a model to be imitated and was challenged on the grounds that the constructions of his plays were too static, his subjects too violent, and his elocution too artificial. In order to answer the question of his persisting influence it is necessary to study and confront the mimetic theories of the period, the reflections on the tragic genre and the particular features of Seneca's drama. The exemplary nature of his subjects, most fitted to a copious use of language, was considered by XVIth dramatists as a model that was fully compatible with their ambition to illustrate the French language. During the XVIIth century, as they undertook to create a distinctly French tragedy, the dramatists continued to make use of some elements that testified to Seneca's enduring (if sometimes concealed) presence. He was also being restored to favour by the translation of his tragedies
Picat-Guinoiseau, Ginette. "Nodier et le theatre." Paris 4, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA040044.
Full textThe world where nodier lived in during his child hood and his youth put the theatre on the top of his preoccupations, making him an enthusiastic spectator, a pertinent critic and a fertile author, though rarely performed. His admiration for the great classics and shakespeare, who he praises in his dole's litterature conferences and in the newspapers, his frequentation of the theatre world, lead with a certain efficiency only to a whole series of dramatic feuilletons in the journal des debats (1814) (except some creations of which there is very few left); his ideas are classic although he accepts the rights of the genius. - his theatrical carreer covers the 1820-1828 period ; he is the author (jointly) of five plays which show some original characteristics : the frenetic inspiration, the genre -half popular, half litterary- between the melodrama and the romantic drama, the subjects coming from the foreign theatre which he defends actively and with conviction in the newspapers. - however, in his fifties, nodier shows a significant turning point : he doesn't go to the theatre anymore, his creation changes, the tale replaces the drama ; the actress reappears, as a myth ; the criticism hands o- ver to the account of real-life experience ; after having tried the pantomime for a while, nodier rediscovers the qualities of the pup- pets, which he considers now as the essential theatre, incarnating the eminent worths liberty and childhood spirit, satisfying the ima- gination and the sensitiveness
Biard, Michel. "Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, homme de théâtre et homme politique (1749-1796)." Paris 1, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA010672.
Full textA gloomy, persistent legend has been following Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois for two centuries. This work aims at analysing the building and the evolution of this mythical image and allows to give the character his true-dimension back. He became an actor as soon as 1767, is the author of 20 works meant for the stage andwas in charge of the entertainment in geneva and then in Lyon. As man of the stage he apparently enjoyed repeated success both before and after the revolutionary caesura. From 1789 to 1792, he worked once more for the world of theatre (both as author and critic) meanwhile his political commitments asserted themselves and progressively brought to light the one who later became a man of power. He was elected at the convention by the citizens of paris, became a prominent member of the jacobins and went several times on assignments to the departements (Nice, Nièvre, Loiret, Oise, Lyon). He became a member for the committee of public safety in september 1793. On these accounts he is one of the key elements in the understanding of the tragedies and challenges of the year ii, as well as the period that follows
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
Kurt, Williams Cigdem. "Réécrire Molière en Turquie à l'âge des réformes : seconde moitié du XIXe siècle." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015STRAC008.
Full textIn the second half of the nineteenth century, Molière's comedies were seen as a fertile source of material for Ottoman playwrights eager to bring new ideas to the popular dramatic arts and to create a new form of national theater. This dissertation concentrates on two primary ways that French theater was transmitted to the theater-going public in the nineteenth century : First, plays that traveled in their original language ; and secondly, translations and adaptations of the French plays most popular at the time. This dissertation aims to analyze Molière's theater in all the complex ways it was transmitted throughout the Ottoman Empire during the Age of Reforms. This dissertation proposes a new perspective on the history of modern Turkish theater, underlining the transformation that the popular dramatic arts went into in the midst of the growing popularity of Molière's theater in the capital and the effect of French theater stars coming to what was a lively and cosmopolitan Istanbul
Souchier, Marine. "Le statut de grand dramaturge au XVIIe siècle : Corneille, Racine et Molière, figures vedettes d’une histoire littéraire en construction (1640-1729)." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SORUL121.
Full textFrom the late 17th century, Corneille, Racine and Molière are given an undeniable superiority over all other contemporary playwrights. This hierarchy, from which current literary history has inherited, continues to make us consider the pre-eminence granted to this “classical” trio as obvious and the studies devoted to the so-called “minor” authors rarely question the “major” author status. Our goal has been to study the elaboration process of the great playwright status. Thus, this PhD thesis highlights the different aspects and manifestations of this construction, retracing its stages during the authors’ lifetime — from the 1640s to the 1680s — while identifiying the factors allowing to understand why these three playwrights were given such a status, at the detriment of their colleagues and competitors. Moreover, this work studies our authors’ immediate posterity — from the 1670s to the 1720s — in order to show how the hierarchy and classification at work in the “majoration” and “minoration” process lay the foundation of French theater history. To understand how the great playwrights’ pantheon was built, we analyze the writing mechanisms of “classical” theater history and bring out the process of mythification that leads to the birth of the “sacred triad” Corneille-Racine-Molière. We then explain how the French theater history is written in praise of these authors, from and around their three figures, classicized and converted into symbols of “the age of Louis XIV”
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 ?
Julian, Thibaut. "L’Histoire de France en jeu dans le théâtre des Lumières et de la Révolution (1765-1806)." Thesis, Paris 4, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA040181.
Full textThe second half of the eighteenth-century is characterized by a thorough transformation of the political world, a change which reflected the simultaneous development of public criticism and patriotism. Theatre plays a key role in this process. Following Voltaire, a variety of playwrights use French history for their plots, and in so doing they update genres and audience expectations. Alongside epic or sentimental plays of the troubadour genre, bio-dramas of “Great Men” soon appeared, followed by dramatic apotheoses and the Revolution’s “faits historiques”. This varied corpus of plays – performed ¬ or not, on official or private stages – constitutes what we may call the national drama of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.By studying these texts and their reception, I analyse how the theatrical representation of French history and its ability to act as a mirror between the past and the present contribute to the contemporary changes in thought. National drama not only showcases the esthetical and dramaturgic debates of this turning point between classicism and romanticism, but it additionally implicates issues of politics and memory: it is more than simple moral entertainment, it has civic value. These productions create a collective historical heritage with its own myths and legends, but the playwrights’ contradictory ideological intentions and the audiences’ active participation also make this theatre a site of dissent. National drama also expresses contemporary social strains and seeks to evoke specific emotions such as admiration, empathy, outrage and horror in the face of the past’s wounds
Triau, Christophe. "Dramaturgies du monologue dans le théâtre du XVIIe siècle." Paris 10, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA100097.
Full textThis study is about the status and the dramaturgical uses of the monologue in French seventeenth century theatre, from 1616 to 1677. It first analyses its numerical evolution, how theory talks about it, and its specificities on the stage (performance, metadramaticity). It studies it through the works of Racan, Viau, Corneille (from Mélite to Rodogune), Molière and Racine (and, sometimes : Mainfray, Mairet, Rotrou). The monologue appears as a problematical element of the dramatic mimesis, a base of the game on the internal points of view and their contradictions : in the pastoral defile, by constructing singular commentaries of the comic fiction, or inside the tragic perspective it makes more complex ; it also appears as a privileged way of the exposition of the persona, and, so, of the relation the audience can build with her, wether it “imposes” her in a tautological and hyperbolic way or, in these times of split between public and particulier, it plays with making her uncertain
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
Hjort, Mette. "Le procès du spectacle : les enjeux théoriques du discours théâtral au dix-septième siècle." Paris E.H.E.S.S, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989EHES0330.
Full textMy thesis deals with two topics : philosophical aesthetics and the debates concerning the legitimacy of theater in 17th-century france and england. My goal is to provide an empirical evaluation of some of the main tenets of aesthetic autonomy, and to develop a genuinely pragmatic approach to theater. To that end, i contrast aspects of the history of drama to a particular philosophical aesthetics, namely the neo-kantian tradition that insists on the autonomy of art. My claim is that this tradition's universalistic theses concerning the non-referential nature of literature, the disinterested nature of aesthetic conventions and rules, are flatly contradicted by the documents that make up the "querelles du theatre". The conclusion to be drawn, then, is that we should not accept the claims typically made for the descriptive validity of the doctrine of aesthetic autonomy
Visentin, Hélène. "Le théâtre à machines en France à l'âge classique : histoire et poétique d'un genre." Paris 4, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA040123.
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