The first frame : theatre space in Enlightenment France /

In the late eighteenth century, a movement to transform France's theatre architecture united the nation. Playwrights, philosophers, and powerful agents including King Louis XV rejected the modified structures that had housed the plays of Racine and Molière, and debated which playhouse form sho...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Camp, Pannill, 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Temas:
1700-1799
Theaters > France > History > 18th century.
ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > Public, Commercial & Industrial.
Theaters.
Theaterbau
Bühne
France.
Frankreich
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The "first frame" of Enlightenment theatre space. Theatre space
  • Perspective
  • Natural philosophy
  • Spectators
  • The divided scene of theatre space in the neo-classical era. Paris theatre spaces before reform
  • The perspective apparatus
  • The versatile space of the Jeu de paume
  • The theatrical frame in French neo-classical dramatic theory. Mirror plays
  • Rationalist and theatrical minor worlds
  • Dubos' Lockean formula
  • Diderot's first paradox
  • Enlightenment spectators and the theatre of experiment. The spectator as epistemological figure
  • Experimental physics and its spaces
  • Experimental dramaturgy
  • Window plays
  • Theatre architecture reform and the spectator as sense function. Mid-century critiques
  • The spectatorial act
  • The geometry of sense
  • Optics and stage space in enlightenment theatre design. Epistemologies of visual space
  • Models of the eye
  • Ocular morphology
  • Perspective destabilized
  • Epilogue: Modern spectatorial consciousness.

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