Dramatis Personae Archive / Programme / Chronology (1600-1850)

 

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1. La Danse

Personae
Dates
Selected Works
Contributions
Baron, Auguste Aliexis Floreal
1974-1862
Lettres et Entretiens sur la danse (1824)
 
Beauchamps, Pierre
1636-1705
  Director of the Academia Royale de Danse, 1661.
Bonnet, Jacques
1644-1724
Histoire Générale de la Danse, Sacree et Prophane (1724)
Dance theoriest and the first dance historian. Portrait.
Cahusac, Louis de
1706-1759
La Danse ancienne et moderne (1754)
Librettist best known for his collaborations with Rameau.
Essex
   
Feuillet, Raoul Auger
1675-1710
  Other resource.
Gallini, Giovani
1728-1805
Critical Observatiosn on the Art of Dancing (1770)
 
Pecour
   
Pemberton
   
Rameau, Pierre
1674-1748
  Modified the Feuillet-Beauchamps dance notation to produce what we now know as modern choreography.
Tomlinson
   
Weaver, John
1673-1760
An Essay Towards a History of Danse (1712)
Translated feuillet's Choregraphie into English as the Orchesography, 1706.

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2. Le Théâtre

Personae
Dates
Selected Works
Contributions
Boyer
1618-1698
   
Corneille, Pierre
1606-1684
  First great tragedian in France. Portrait (French), Portrait (English).
Dorat
   
Marivaux, Pierre de Carlet
1688-1763
  Premier comic playwright of eighteenth-century France, whose artistry with sentimental language now bears the name marivaudage. Portrait (French).
Moliere, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
1622-1673
  Court playwright under Louis XIV and collaborator of Corneille and Lully. Portrait.
Racine, Jean
1639-1699
  Known as the greatest tragedian in France. Portrait.
Shakespeare, William
1564-1616
Hamlet (1600)
Greatest classical British playwright and author.

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3. La théorie Du jeu

Personae
Dates
Selected Works
Contributions
Aristotle
384-332
   
Bernhardt, Sarah
1844-1933
  Known as "The Divine Sarah." Pioneered what we now know as modern acting method. She famously played Racine's Phedre and Shakespeare's Hamlet, establishing herself as the premier actress of 19th-century Europe. Other resource.
Constantini, Angelo
1654-1694
La Vie de Scaramouche (1699)
 
Diderot, Denis
1713-1784
Encyclopédie
 
Scaramouche (a.k.a. Tiberio Fiorilli)
1608-1694
  Legendary stock character of teh commedia dell'arte created by teh most famous Italian actor of the day, Tiberio Fiorilli. Fiorilli helped popularize the physical style of the commedia in France, influencing Moliere. Other resource.

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4. L'image de Lacteur

Personae
Dates
Selected Works
Contributions
Callot, Jacques
1592-1635
  Resource 1. Resource 2.
Nadar, Felix (Garspard-Felix, Tournachon)
1820-1910
  Toward the end of his career in portaiture, he took what would become the most famous photos of Sarah Bernhardt. Aside from "The Divine Sarah", he also caputured George Sand, Jules Verne, and Charles Baudelaire in draggeurotype. Portrait 1. Portrait 2.
Watteau, Antoine
1684-1721
French Rococo artist who pioneered a graceful mood in his paintings of commedia figures and outdoor gatherings, which became known as fete galante. Other resource.

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5. La Musique

Personae
Dates
Selected Works
Contributions
Benserade, Isaac de
1613-1691
Portrait.
Charpentier
DeSercy
Les Oeuvres de monsieur de Bensserade
Lully, Jean-Baptiste
1632-1687
Portrait.
Philidor
1726-1795
 
Rameau
 

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