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Genre/Form: | Thèses et écrits académiques |
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Named Person: | Georges de Scudéry; Georges de Scudéry |
Material Type: | Document, Thesis/dissertation |
Document Type: | Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Pierre-Louis Rosenfeld; Gilles Declercq; Pierre Civil; Jean-Claude Vuillemin; Sylvaine Guyot; Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris).; École doctorale Arts et médias (Paris).; Institut de recherches en études théâtrales (Paris). |
OCLC Number: | 1162835698 |
Notes: | Titre provenant de l'écran-titre. |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Responsibility: | Pierre-Louis Rosenfeld ; sous la direction de Gilles Declercq. |
Abstract:
One of the components of the theater is what Aristotle calls opsis in Poetics : the spectacle, the donné à voir. In the first seventeenth century, a genre and an author illustrate this component. Under the reign of Louis XIII and the government of Richelieu, tragi-comedy is fashionable and characterized by its spectacular size. Among the authors who practice this genre and defend its specificity, Georges de Scudéry is one of the most prolific and more closely interested in painting, the art of vision par excellence. Our study focuses on the construction of the spectatorial gaze in the tragi-comédies of Georges de Scudéry. Four aspects are examined : the relationship between tragi-comedies and current affairs through a common imaginary, the driving forces of the spectacular as stated by the theoreticians and dramatic authors of the 1630s, the way Scudéry gives his plays to see and finally three traits of his dramaturgy (visual suspense, circulation of looks, reference to painting). The prologue examines a founding scene of the reign of Louis XIII, the "coup de majesté" of April 1617 that brought effectively the king to power. This scene was first rehearsed, then danced before the court, finally performed for real with the death of the Concini couple. But it was not over, the theater took it and continued to play it. The first part deals with the emblematic events of the reign of Louis XIII and the government of Richelieu, and analyzes the reflections that he could have left in the dramatic production of the time, especially in tragi-comedies. The second part establishes an inventory of the various forms of entertainment that were current during this period and the comments they generated. The third part analyzes the spectacular dimension of Scudery's tragi-comedies, first from the didascalies, then according to four criteria (the subject of the play and its reference to the world, the visual apparatus put in place, the visual initiatives that emanate from the show, the experience of the risk to which the show is sensitive), finally through the frontispieces of the editions. The fourth part examines in the donné à voir what is no longer related to surprise, but to the deepening of the vision in three aspects : the visual mechanics of suspense, the circulation of the gaze and its functions (admiration, power exercising, knowing), references to the world of painting and to the use of pictorial techniques (portrait, landscape). Keywords.
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- Scudéry, Georges de -- (1601-1667) -- Critique et interprétation.
- Scudéry, Georges de -- (1601-1667) -- Thèmes, motifs.
- Théâtre (genre littéraire) français -- 17e siècle.
- Tragi-comédie française -- 17e siècle.
- Poétique.
- Littérature et histoire.
- Spectaculaire -- Dans la littérature.
- Représentation (littérature).
- Théâtralité.
- Peinture et théâtre.
- Image
- Mimesis
- Opsis
- Peinture
- Regard
- Spectacularité
- Vision