Theatre

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  Genres et querelles littéraires

  Groupe d'Analyse de la Dynamique des Genres et des Styles (GADGES) | Cahiers du GADGES

  These collected essays examine literary quarrels during the Early Modern period as a literary genre in and of themselves. The studies approach these rows through the genres that feed them and that they shape: how did the editorial context...

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  Pierre CORNEILLE

  Cinna. Tragédie 1643

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  Cinna marque une date importante dans la carrière de Pierre Corneille comme dans l'histoire de la tragédie française. Corneille est alors consacré comme le roi de la tragédie : en réaction aux critiques faites au Cid et à Horace, les efforts ...

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  Moralité à six personnages

  (BNF ms. fr. 25467)

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  Medieval theater was street theater and a place for protest, in which the polysemy of the expression « public space » is well-situated. The La Vallière collection remarkably illustrates this, alternating four plays : two farces, each followed by a...

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  Alain RIFFAUD

  La Ponctuation du théâtre imprimé au XVIIe siècle

  Librairie Droz | Travaux du Grand Siècle

  Should critical editions of old texts modernize punctuation? It used to be thought that original punctuation was too erratic to be maintained, but the rediscovery of oratorical practices reopened the debate. Were typesetters to be blamed for every...

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  Les Mystères de la procession de Lille

  Tome IV, Le Nouveau Testament

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  Volume IV of Les Mystères de la procession de Lille presents twenty-one biblical plays drawn from the New Testament. These plays are found in a manuscript in the Herzog August Bibliothek at Wolfenbüttel, which contains seventy-two mystery plays that...

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  CHEVALET

  La Vie de sainct Christofle

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  La Vie de sainct Christofle is one of the rare original mystery plays to date back to the early sixteenth century. Its playwright, Master Chevalet, had already contributed to the Mystère des Trois Doms and here gives the full measure of his...

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  La Comédie de proverbes : pièce comique (d'après l'édition princeps de 1633)

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  The anonymous Comédie des proverbes (c. 1630) is a dramatic and literary joke. This three-act play traditionally attributed to Adrian de Monluc consists of some 1700 proverbs, clichés and other set phrases and still succeeds in painting convincing...

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  Jean-Noël LAURENTI

  Valeurs morales et religieuses sur la scène de l’Académie royale de Musique (1669-1737)

  Librairie Droz | Travaux du Grand Siècle

  French operas by Quinault, Lully and their successors are more than mere entertainment: as is any artistic production, the works collected in the Recueil général des opéras convey a certain view of Man and his relationship to the rest of the world as...

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  André TISSIER

  Les Spectacles à Paris pendant la Révolution : répertoire analytique, chronologique et bibliographique

  Volume 2, De la proclamation de la République à la fin de la Convention nationale (21 septembre 1792 - 26 octobre 1795)

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  Tome II of Les Spectacles à Paris pendant la Révolution stretches from the proclamation of the Republic in September 1792 to the end of the Convention in October 1795, thus including the Reign of Terror (June 1793 to July 1794). During these four...

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  Le Mistere du siege d'Orleans

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  On May 8, 1429, the day of their victory against invading English troops, the French military lords, the civic leaders and the citizenry of Orléans, as well as their heroine Joan the Maid, participated in a spontaneous procession that led them to all...