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Spring Term 2004
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Graduate Centre for the Study of Drama
DRA 3011S
Commedia dell'Arte in
France from 1660 to 1760
Instructor: David Trott
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Jacques Callot, 1592-1635
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| Represented by successive waves of Italian theatrical
companies and performers, Commedia has constituted a vital part of French
theatre life since the Renaissance. This course will concentrate
on the period during which Molière and Marivaux, two of France's
greatest playwrights, created their masterpieces, and will raise such issues
as the interaction of "national" traditions, the dichotomy of performance-based
and text-based theatre, and the process of assimilation which led to the
fusion, after the middle of the 18th century, of La Comédie-Italienne
with Favart's Opéra-Comique. In addition to presenting an
important chapter in the theatre history of France, the course will also
attempt to assess the ways in which contemporary, 20th-century theatre
scholars and practitioners have placed fresh emphasis on the Commedia underpinnings
of 17th and 18th-century French drama. |
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e-mail to D. Trott :
trott@chass.utoronto.ca
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