Output details
35 - Music, Drama, Dance and Performing Arts
Oxford Brookes University
Article title
La diction du tragédien ridicule sous l'Ancien Régime
Type
D - Journal article
DOI
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Title of journal
Studi francesi
Article number
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Volume number
2010
Issue number
162
First page of article
497
ISSN of journal
0039-2944
Year of publication
2010
URL
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Number of additional authors
-
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
French. In the Seventeenth Century fairground theatres developed the practice of mocking the Tragedians’ acting style developed by Molière (Saint-Germain and Saint-Laurent). This article argues that fairground theatres created a distorted image of tragic diction. It argues that the recurrence of comic portraits over a long period of time suggests that the criticisms made were conventional, that is to say clichés, and did not reflect the diction of innovative tragedians such as Michel Baron, Adrienne Lecouvreur and Marie François Dumesnil whose natural acting style was acclaimed during the period.
