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French Neoclassical Theatre

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Natalie McCabe

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  • Catholic vs. Protestant Conflict
  • Thirty Years' War (1618 - 1648)
  • Les Rois Louis
  • Cardinal Richelieu (1585 - 1642)
  • Academie Francaise
  • Pre-1630s
  • Medieval Theatre Traits
  • 1402: Confrerie de la Passion
  • 1548: Hotel de Bourgogne as permanent site
  • 1600s: Commedia dell'Arte troupes
  • Alexandre Hardy (c. 1572 - 1632): French playwright
  • 1634: Theatre de Marais
  • Tennis Court theatres
  • Distrust of Religious Hypocrisy vs. Trust in Monarch
  • Three Unities
  • Time
  • Place
  • Action
  • Verisimilitude
  • Decorum
  • Five Acts
  • Alexandrine Verse
  • Heroic Couplets
  • Genre Distinction
  • Character Archetypes
  • Deus ex Machina as Resolution
  • Italianate Staging in France: Later
  • 1645: Giacomo Torelli
  • Public Theatres
  • Rectangular structure (long & narrow)
  • Parterre
  • Galleries
  • Ampitheatre
  • Mansions
  • Multipoint Perspective
  • 1660: 5 Professional, Permanent Theatre Troupes in Paris
  • Moliere's
  • Commedia
  • Jean-Baptiste Lully's Opera, Music, Dance Troupe
  • No Householders
  • Government Control via Patronage
  • Support from Cardinal Richelieu (1585 - 1642)
  • Palais Cardinal/Palais Royal
  • 1680: Comedie Francaise
  • French Actors denied civic and religious rights in 17th & 18th centuries.
  • Formal Acting Style (not realism!)
  • 1636 - 1637: Le Cid
  • Querrelle du Cid (Quarrel of the Cid)
  • 1643: Founds theatrical company in French provinces
  • 1660s: In Palais Royal
  • Sample Comedies
  • 1662: The School for Wives
  • 1664: Tartuffe
  • 1666: The Misanthrope
  • Court spectacles
  • Ballets
  • Last Rites vs. Theatre Professional
  • Tragic Dramatist
  • Play Themes: Sin, Guilt
  • Play Characterizations
  • Psychologically complex
  • Pro-unities
  • Plays
  • One Comedy: The Litigants
  • Tragedies
  • 1667: Andromache
  • 1670: Bernice
  • 1677: Phedre
  • Rigid Actor Specialization
  • Performance Style
  • "Illegal Theatres"
  • Theatroical Centre of Europe
  • Comedie Francaise
  • Lully & Opera
  • 1682: Versailles
  • End of 18th century: French Revolution

French Neoclassical Theatre

Historical Context

Theatre Companies

Early French Theatre

Pierre Corneille

(1606 - 1684)

Comedie Francaise

Changes in Performance Practices

Neoclassicism

Jean Racine

(1639 - 1699)

Sentimentalism

Staging

Moliere

(b. Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, 1622 - 1673)

  • Individuals basically good
  • Evil through corruption
  • People "perfectible"
  • Virtue
  • Voltaire
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