renaissance theatre: france 1630 to 1700
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Renaissance Theatre: France 1630 to 1700. King Louis XIII 1601-1643. King Louis XIV 1638-1715. Jean Baptiste Poquelin 1622-1673. Better known as Moliere France’s greatest comic playwright Organized the Theatre Illustre at the age of 21 We have 10 major plays - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Renaissance Theatre: France1630 to 1700
King Louis XIII1601-1643
King Louis XIV1638-1715
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Jean Baptiste Poquelin 1622-1673
• Better known as Moliere
• France’s greatest comic playwright
• Organized the Theatre Illustre at the age of 21
• We have 10 major plays
• Divide into 2 groups
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Farcical comedies
1. The Doctor In Spite of Himself
2. The Tricks of Scapine, also known as Scapino
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High comedies Comedy of character
1. Tartuffe
2. The Miser
3. The Imaginary Invalid
4. The Misanthrope
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His MasterpieceTartuffe
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Moliere’s Death • He collapsed, on stage, during a performance of The Imaginary Invalid
• Died later that evening at his home
• Buried after dark in a private ceremony
• In 1817 his remains were moved to the Cemetery Père Lachaise in Paris.
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Comedie FrancaiseWorld’s First National Theatre
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Comedie Francaise
• Formed 1680
• By order of King Louis XIV
• Granted a monopoly over French drama
• Performs the works of Moliere, Racine and Corneille
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Pierre Cornielle 1606-1684
• Remembered for his tragedies
• Most important work: Le Cid
• A turning point in French Drama
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Academie Francaise
• Organized in 1637• Limited to "forty men
of letters" • Guiding force was
Cardinal Richelieu • Function: Regulation
of the French language and literature
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Cardinal Richelieu1586-1642
• Was King Louis XIII’s “Chief Minister”
• Consolidated royal power and crushed domestic factions
• Patron of the Arts
• The antagonist in The Three Musketeers
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Neoclassical rulesProduct of the Academie Francaise
1. Anything which happens on stage must
be able to happen in real life
2. Every drama must preach a moral lesson
3. No mixing of dramatic styles -- a play was either a comedy or tragedy
4. A play must observe the three unities (time, place and action), and
5. A drama must be divided into five acts
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Neoclassic Tragedy
1. Characters must be drawn from the nobility.
2. Plot must deal with affairs of state
3. Ending must be tragic
4. Dialogue must be poetic
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Neoclassic Comedy
• Characters drawn from the middle and lower class
• Plot must deal with domestic affairs
• Ending must be happy
• Dialogue must be written in prose
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Jean Racine1639-1699
• France’s most important tragic playwright
• Adapted Greek tragedies
• Major work: Phaedre
• Based on Euripides' Hippolytus.
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Hotel de Bourgogne
• 1548: France's first permanent theatre
• Built by the Confraternity of the Passion
• In the town house of the Duke of Burgundy
Cyrano De BergeracHotel de Bourgogne
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Palais Cardina
• Built by Cardinal Richelieu
• 1641: Paris' first proscenium theatre
• 1642: Renamed Palais Royal
• Become’s home of Moliere’s acting company