The Theatre Italien Its Repertory 1716 1793
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“The” Theatre Italien
Author | : Clarence D. Brenner |
Publisher | : Berkeley : University of California Press |
Total Pages | : 531 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Theater |
ISBN | : |
Border-Crossing and Comedy at the Théâtre Italien, 1716–1723
Author | : Matthew J. McMahan |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2021-03-30 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 3030700712 |
How do nationalized stereotypes inform the reception and content of the migrant comedian’s work? How do performers adapt? What gets lost (and found) in translation? Border-Crossing and Comedy at the Théâtre Italien, 1716-1723 explores these questions in an early modern context. When a troupe of commedia dell’arte actors were invited by the French crown to establish a theatre in Paris, they found their transition was anything but easy. They had to learn a new language and adjust to French expectations and demands. This study presents their story as a dynamic model of coping with the challenges of migration, whereby the actors made their transnational identity a central focus of their comedy. Relating their work to popular twenty-first century comedians, this book also discusses the tools and ideas that contextualize the border-crossing comedian’s work—including diplomacy, translation, improvisation, and parody—across time.
The Wife of Bath in Afterlife
Author | : Betsy Bowden |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2017-10-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1611462444 |
By focusing on one literary character, as interpreted in both verbal art and visual art at a point midway in time between the author’s era and our own, this study applies methodology appropriate for overcoming limitations posed by historical periodization and by isolation among academic specialities. Current trends in Chaucer scholarship call for diachronic afterlife studies like this one, sometimes termed “medievalism.” So far, however, nearly all such work by-passes the eighteenth century (here designated 1660-1810). Furthermore, medieval authors’ afterlives during any time period have not been analyzed by way of the multiple fields of specialization integrated into this study. The Wife of Bath is regarded through the disciplinary lenses of eighteenth-century literature, visual art, print marketing, education, folklore, music, equitation, and especially theater both in London and on the Continent.
Theatre History Studies 2017, Vol. 36
Author | : Sara Freeman |
Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2017-12-12 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0817371117 |
Theatre History Studies is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-American Theatre Conference (MATC), a regional body devoted to theatre scholarship and practice.
Musical Debate and Political Culture in France, 1700-1830
Author | : Robert James Arnold |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1783272015 |
The first full-length treatment of the operatic querelles in eighteenth-century France, placing individual querelles in historical context and tracing common themes of authority, national prestige and the power of music over popular sentiment.
Michel-Jean Sedaine (1719-1797)
Author | : David Charlton |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2019-01-15 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0429640250 |
Originally published in 2000, this book highlights the interst Sedaine's life and work is now, belatedly, provoking in many scholarly disciplines. If Sedaine speaks today to literary history, theatre history and opera studies, it is because he possessed a multivalent vision, one which accounts for both his past neglect and is present rediscovery. Like many others, he believed that the established, 'official' genres needed to be reformed; unlike many, he made it his business to transform the actual language and operation of the theatre arts he practised. Until late eighteenth-century opera and drama in France become better understood, Sedaine's immense importance for the development of Romantic opera and theatre risks remaining generally concealed; to reveal something of this importance is one main reason for publishing the present volume. This book includes chapters on Sedaine and the question of genre, the representation of the female in the dramas of Sedaine, and the words, gestures and other signs in the era of Sedaine.
Menander to Marivaux: The History of a Comic Structure
Author | : E.J.H. Greene |
Publisher | : University of Alberta |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780888640185 |
The author examines comedies based on a structure first used by Menander in the fourth century B.C. and brought to its precise formulations and brilliance by Marivaux in the eighteenth century A.D.
Listening in Paris
Author | : James H. Johnson |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2023-04-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520918231 |
Beginning with the simple question, "Why did audiences grow silent?" Listening in Paris gives a spectator's-eye view of opera and concert life from the Old Regime to the Romantic era, describing the transformation in musical experience from social event to profound aesthetic encounter. James H. Johnson recreates the experience of audiences during these rich decades with brio and wit. Woven into the narrative is an analysis of the political, musical, and aesthetic factors that produced more engaged listening. Johnson shows the gradual pacification of audiences from loud and unruly listeners to the attentive public we know today. Drawing from a wide range of sources—novels, memoirs, police files, personal correspondence, newspaper reviews, architectural plans, and the like—Johnson brings the performances to life: the hubbub of eighteenth-century opera, the exuberance of Revolutionary audiences, Napoleon's musical authoritarianism, the bourgeoisie's polite consideration. He singles out the music of Gluck, Haydn, Rossini, and Beethoven as especially important in forging new ways of hearing. This book's theoretical edge will appeal to cultural and intellectual historians in many fields and periods.
From the Royal to the Republican Body
Author | : Sara E. Melzer |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2023-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520918800 |
In this innovative volume, leading scholars examine the role of the body as a primary site of political signification in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France. Some essays focus on the sacralization of the king's body through a gendered textual and visual rhetoric. Others show how the monarchy mastered subjects' minds by disciplining the body through dance, music, drama, art, and social rituals. The last essays in the volume focus on the unmaking of the king's body and the substitution of a new, republican body. Throughout, the authors explore how race and gender shaped the body politic under the Bourbons and during the Revolution. This compelling study expands our conception of state power and demonstrates that seemingly apolitical activities like the performing arts, dress and ritual, contribute to the state's hegemony. From the Royal to the Republican Body will be an essential resource for students and scholars of history, literature, music, dance and performance studies, gender studies, art history, and political theory.