The Experience Of Theater In Eighteenth Century France
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The Experience Of Theater In Eighteenth Century France
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Author : Mary Elizabeth Mahan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
The Experience Of Theater In Eighteenth Century France written by Mary Elizabeth Mahan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Theater and society categories.
Theatermania In Eighteenth Century Europe
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Author : Sonia Bellavia
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2023-04-26
Theatermania In Eighteenth Century Europe written by Sonia Bellavia and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
The group volume distinguishes itself by its multidisciplinary, comparative approach and by the network of relationships it weaves between the various European languages and cultures. The study takes shape from its different viewpoints and in its diverse contexts, to chart a detailed historical-conceptual map of the basic role theater played in forging the modern European consciousness. The thematic core of ‘theatermania’ lay in the authentic theatrical passion that manifested itself in different ways from one country to another throughout the 18th century. While the aesthetic, social and political value of theater took a variety of forms, its central feature was the privileged place it gave to collective and individual social revolutions, phenomena that could be defined as upheavals of the collective imagination, which found in theater a source of nourishment, mediation or control. The volume offers not just a series of historical-theatrical studies, but a view of history that foregrounds the passions that were regularly sparked by theater. It adds an essential feature to the profile of the century that redefined the role and importance of theater, and that led to its full re-evaluation in the Romantic age.
Theater War And Revolution In Eighteenth Century France And Its Empire
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Author : Logan Connors
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-11-30
Theater War And Revolution In Eighteenth Century France And Its Empire written by Logan Connors and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-30 with Drama categories.
The first study of French theater and war at a time of global revolutions, colonial violence, and radical social transformation.
The First Frame
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Author : Pannill Camp
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-12-04
The First Frame written by Pannill Camp and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-04 with Architecture categories.
A unique account of the way architects, dramatists, and philosophers transformed theatre space in the eighteenth century.
Modes Of Play In Eighteenth Century France
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Author : Fayçal Falaky
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2021-11-12
Modes Of Play In Eighteenth Century France written by Fayçal Falaky and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-12 with Performing Arts categories.
Collecting diverse critical perspectives on the topic of play—from dolls, bilboquets, and lotteries, to writing itself—this volume offers new insights into how play was used to represent and reimagine the world in eighteenth-century France. In documenting various modes of play, contributors theorize its relation to law, religion, politics, and economics. Equally important was the role of “play” in plays, and the function of theatrical performance in mirroring, and often contesting, our place in the universe. These essays remind us that the spirit of play was very much alive during the “Age of Reason,” providing ways for its practitioners to consider more “serious” themes such as free will and determinism, illusions and equivocations, or chance and inequality. Standing at the intersection of multiple intellectual avenues, this is the first comprehensive study in English devoted to the different guises of play in Enlightenment France, certain to interest curious readers across disciplinary backgrounds.
The French Stage In The Eighteenth Century
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Author : Frederick William Hawkins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1888
The French Stage In The Eighteenth Century written by Frederick William Hawkins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1888 with French drama categories.
The Emergence Of A Theatrical Science Of Man In France 1660 1740
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Author : Logan J. Connors
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
The Emergence Of A Theatrical Science Of Man In France 1660 1740 written by Logan J. Connors and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 categories.
The emergence of a theatrical science of man in France, 1660-1740 highlights a radical departure from discussions of dramatic literature and its undergirding rules to a new, relational discourse on the emotional power of theater. Through a diverse cast of religious theaterphobes, government officials, playwrights, art theorists and proto-philosophes, Connors shows the concerted effort in early Enlightenment France to use texts about theater to establish broader theories on emotion, on the enduring psychological and social ramifications of affective moments, and more generally, on human interaction, motivation, and social behavior. This fundamentally anthropological assessment of theater emerged in the works of anti-theatrical religious writers, who argued that emotional response was theater's raison d'être and that it was an efficient venue to learn more about the depravity of human nature. A new generation of pro-theatrical writers shared the anti-theatricalists' intense focus on the emotions of theater, but unlike religious theaterphobes, they did not view emotion as a conduit of sin or as a dangerous, uncontrollable process; but rather, as cognitive-affective moments of feeling and learning. Connors' study explores this reassessment of the theatrical experience which empowered writers to use plays, critiques, and other cultural materials about the stage to establish a theatrical science of man--an early Enlightenment project with aims to study and 'improve' the emotional, social, and political 'health' of eighteenth-century France. Logan J. Connors is Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami. His next research project investigates connections between theater and the military in France and its colonies from 1680 to 1815.
Reading Drama In Eighteenth Century France
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Author : Thomas Wynn
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024-01-10
Reading Drama In Eighteenth Century France written by Thomas Wynn and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
Reading Drama in Eighteenth-Century France is the first book-length study of how plays were read in eighteenth-century France and, relatedly, of closet drama: excessive plays that cannot be performed within the playhouse's confines and which thus appeal to the reader's imagination. This period in France was characterized by 'théâtromanie', a craze that encompassed the page as well as the stage. The book's first part surveys the historical context in which plays were read and offers a theoretical model for understanding this practice. The eighteenth-century closet was valued as a privileged site of reading. Although scholars routinely present this room as a place of calm reflection, Thomas Wynn develops a framework (derived in part from queer theory) to argue that it fosters passionate and disruptive pleasures that elude the coercive normativity of the playhouse. To explore the multipositional experience of reading plays in this period, Wynn turns to the journal Mercure de France, whose extensive reviews help us to think about geographies of reading, coercion, and autonomy. The second part examines how dramatists exploited the critical, imaginative, and formal potential of the reading experience. It offers close analysis of several closet plays: comedies depicting the dispute between Jesuits and Jansenists in the 1730s; Hénault's historical drama François II, roi de France (1747); and erotic plays from the end of the period. The study concludes with an account of Rétif de La Bretonne's Le Drame de la vie (1793)—an extreme and arguably unsurpassed example of closet drama. Ultimately, this book shows, closet drama is not failed theatre but rather an indisputable part of the lively, passionate, and combative theatrical culture of eighteenth-century France.
A Cultural History Of Theatre In The Age Of Enlightenment
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Author : Mechele Leon
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-08-08
A Cultural History Of Theatre In The Age Of Enlightenment written by Mechele Leon and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-08 with History categories.
French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote, 'the general effect of the theatre is to strengthen the national character to augment the national inclinations, and to give a new energy to all the passions'. During the Enlightenment, the advancement of radical ideas along with the emergence of the bourgeois class contributed to a renewed interest in theatre's efficacy, informed by philosophy yet on behalf of politics. While the 18th century saw a growing desire to define the unique and specific features of a nation's drama, and audiences demanded more realistic portrayals of humanity, theatre is also implicated in this age of revolutions. A Cultural History of Theatre in the Age of Enlightenment examines these intersections, informed by the writings of key 18th-century philosophers. Richly illustrated with 45 images, the ten chapters each take a different theme as their focus: institutional frameworks; social functions; sexuality and gender; the environment of theatre; circulation; interpretations; communities of production; repertoire and genres; technologies of performance; and knowledge transmission.
Eighteenth Century French Theatre
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Author : Edward Joseph Hollingsworth Greene
language : en
Publisher: Depts. of Romance Languages and Comparative Literature of the University of Alberta
Release Date : 1986
Eighteenth Century French Theatre written by Edward Joseph Hollingsworth Greene and has been published by Depts. of Romance Languages and Comparative Literature of the University of Alberta this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with French drama categories.