Theatre Under Louis Xiv

Author : J. Prest
Publisher : Springer
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230600928

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Theatre Under Louis XIV by J. Prest Pdf

This book explores the fascinating phenomenon of cross-casting and related gender issues in different theatrical genres and different performance contexts during the heyday of French theatre. Although professional acting troupes under Louis XIV were mixed, cross-casting remained an important feature of French court ballet (in which the King himself performed a number of women's roles) and an occasional feature of spoken comedy and tragic opera. Cross-casting also persisted out of necessity in the school drama of the period. This book fills an important gap in the history of French theatre and provides new insight into wider theoretical questions of gender and theatricality. The inclusion of chapters on ballet and opera (as well as spoken drama) opens up the richness of French theatre under Louis XIV in a way that has not been achieved before.

Author : Rebecca Harris-Warrick,Carol G. Marsh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521020220

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Musical Theatre at the Court of Louis XIV by Rebecca Harris-Warrick,Carol G. Marsh Pdf

Le Mariage de la Grosse Cathos, a short ballet performed at the court of Louis XIV, is of major importance to the study of French Baroque dance. This facsimile reproduction of the entire manuscript is accompanied by a comprehensive study of the work itself and the context in which it was created and performed. Dated 1688, it provides a wealth of new and detailed information on numerous aspects of theatrical dance. It differs from the known choreographic sources in many respects, the two most important being the completeness of all its components--choreography, music, and text--and the use of a previously unknown dance notation system.

Author : Mechele Leon
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781587298912

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Molière, the French Revolution, and the Theatrical Afterlife by Mechele Leon Pdf

From 1680 until the French Revolution, when legislation abolished restrictions on theatrical enterprise, a single theatre held sole proprietorship of Molière’s works. After 1791, his plays were performed in new theatres all over Paris by new actors, before audiences new to his works. Both his plays and his image took on new dimensions. In Molière, the French Revolution, and the Theatrical Afterlife, Mechele Leon convincingly demonstrates how revolutionaries challenged the ties that bound this preeminent seventeenth-century comic playwright to the Old Regime and provided him with a place of honor in the nation’s new cultural memory. Leon begins by analyzing the performance of Molière’s plays during the Revolution, showing how his privileged position as royal servant was disrupted by the practical conditions of the revolutionary theatre. Next she explores Molière’s relationship to Louis XIV, Tartuffe, and the social function of his comedy, using Rousseau’s famous critique of Molière as well as appropriations of George Dandin in revolutionary iconography to discuss how Moliérean laughter was retooled to serve republican interests. After examining the profusion of plays dealing with his life in the latter years of the Revolution, she looks at the exhumation of his remains and their reentombment as the tangible manifestation of his passage from Ancien Régime favorite to new national icon. The great Molière is appreciated by theatre artists and audiences worldwide, but for the French people it is no exaggeration to say that the Father of French Comedy is part of their national soul. By showing how he was represented, reborn, and reburied in the new France—how the revolutionaries asserted his relevance for their tumultuous time in ways that were audacious, irreverent, imaginative, and extreme—Leon clarifies the important role of theatrical figures in preserving and portraying a nation’s history.

Author : J. Prest
Publisher : Springer
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137344007

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Controversy in French Drama by J. Prest Pdf

In 1664, Molière's Tartuffe was banned from public performance. This book provides a detailed, in-depth account of five-year struggle (1664-69) to have the ban lifted and, so doing, sheds important new light on 1660s France and the ancien régime more broadly.

Author : Henry Carrington Lancaster
Publisher : Baltimore, Md. : The Johns Hopkins Press ; London : H. Milford, Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : French drama
ISBN : UOM:39015068337040

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Sunset by Henry Carrington Lancaster Pdf

Author : Henry Carrington Lancaster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : French drama
ISBN : OCLC:1017369367

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Sunset by Henry Carrington Lancaster Pdf

Author : Karl Mantzius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : Theater
ISBN : HARVARD:32044100891522

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Molière and his times: the theatre in France in the 17th century by Karl Mantzius Pdf

Author : Alexander Dundas Ross Wishart Cochrane-Baillie Baron Lamington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Comédie-Française
ISBN : UOM:39015030211679

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The Théâtre Français in the Reign of Louis XV. by Alexander Dundas Ross Wishart Cochrane-Baillie Baron Lamington Pdf

Author : Julia Prest,Guy Rowlands
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317014119

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The Third Reign of Louis XIV, c.1682–1715 by Julia Prest,Guy Rowlands Pdf

The personal rule of Louis XIV, following on from a long period of royal minority and apprenticeship, lasted 54 years from 1661 to 1715. But the second half of this personal rule has, until recently, received significantly less scholarly attention than the 1660s and 1670s. This has obscured some of the very real changes and developments that occurred between the early 1680s and the mid-1690s, by which time a new generation of younger royals had come to prominence, France was engulfed in international war on a greater scale than ever before, and the king was visibly no longer as vigorous or healthy as he had once been. The essays in this volume take a close look at the way a new set of political, social, cultural and economic dispensations emerged from the mid-1680s to create a different France in the final decades of Louis XIV’s reign, even though the basic ideological, social and economic underpinnings of the country remained very largely the same. The contributions examine such varied matters as the structure and practices of government, naval power, the financial operations of the state, trade and commerce, social pressures, overseas expansion, religious dissent, music, literature and the fine arts.

Author : Frederick William John Hemmings
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1994-02-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521450881

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Theatre and State in France, 1760-1905 by Frederick William John Hemmings Pdf

Relations between theatre and state were seldom more fraught in France than in this period. F. W. J. Hemmings traces the vicissitudes of this perennial conflict.

Author : Karl Mantzius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Theater
ISBN : UOM:49015002171057

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A History of Theatrical Art in Ancient and Modern Times: Molière and his times: the theatre in France in the 17th century by Karl Mantzius Pdf

Author : Lauren R. Clay
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801468216

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Stagestruck by Lauren R. Clay Pdf

Stagestruck traces the making of a vibrant French theater industry between the reign of Louis XIV and the French Revolution. During this era more than eighty provincial and colonial cities celebrated the inauguration of their first public playhouses. These theaters emerged as the most prominent urban cultural institutions in prerevolutionary France, becoming key sites for the articulation and contestation of social, political, and racial relationships. Combining rich description with nuanced analysis based on extensive archival evidence, Lauren R. Clay illuminates the wide-ranging consequences of theater's spectacular growth for performers, spectators, and authorities in cities throughout France as well as in the empire's most important Atlantic colony, Saint-Domingue. Clay argues that outside Paris the expansion of theater came about through local initiative, civic engagement, and entrepreneurial investment, rather than through actions or policies undertaken by the royal government and its agents. Reconstructing the business of theatrical production, she brings to light the efforts of a wide array of investors, entrepreneurs, directors, and actors-including women and people of color-who seized the opportunities offered by commercial theater to become important agents of cultural change. Portraying a vital and increasingly consumer-oriented public sphere beyond the capital, Stagestruck overturns the long-held notion that cultural change flowed from Paris and the royal court to the provinces and colonies. This deeply researched book will appeal to historians of Europe and the Atlantic world, particularly those interested in the social and political impact of the consumer revolution and the forging of national and imperial cultural networks. In addition to theater and literary scholars, it will attract the attention of historians and sociologists who study business, labor history, and the emergence of the modern French state.

Author : Frederick Paul Tollini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015073962774

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Scene Design at the Court of Louis XIV by Frederick Paul Tollini Pdf

This study adds another insight into the period of Louis XIV - that the confluence of the theatrical arts from older traditions developed to shape a distinctly French style which all pertained to the glorification of the Sun King. While previous studies have stressed the literary and musical side of the performances of the period, this study examines the settings and scene designs which completed the picture of the royal mythologies. Besides giving an account of the festivities of Versailles and other venues, and setting them in their social environment, this work relates the spectacles to the political and social milieu, incorporating both contemporary literary theory and cultural history.

Author : Georgia Cowart
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226116389

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The Triumph of Pleasure by Georgia Cowart Pdf

With a particular focus on the court ballet, comedy-ballet, opera, and opera-ballet, Georgia J. Cowart tells the long-neglected story of how the festive arts deployed an intricate network of subversive satire to undermine the rhetoric of sovereign authority.

Author : Henri Van Laun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : French literature
ISBN : IND:30000097244937

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From the end of the reign of Louis XIV till the end of the reign of Louis Philippe by Henri Van Laun Pdf