TY - CHAP
T1 - Truth, Lies and Time-Travel
T2 - Jean Cocteau in the 'Impromptu' Tradition
AU - Hatte, Jennifer
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Heavily influenced by the 'commedia dell'arte', and already in existence by the beginning ofthe seventeenth century, the shore theatrical form known as the 'impromptu', was at first and, as Lise Gauvin reminds us, often still is, no more than a 'divertissement', a curtain raiser with little or no serious content. Molière, with his 'Impromptu de Versailles', transformed the genre by making of his 'comédie des comédiens' a vehicle for both satire of his rivalsand rebuttal oftheir criticisms, while also providing a platform from which to broadcast his own poetics of theatre.
AB - Heavily influenced by the 'commedia dell'arte', and already in existence by the beginning ofthe seventeenth century, the shore theatrical form known as the 'impromptu', was at first and, as Lise Gauvin reminds us, often still is, no more than a 'divertissement', a curtain raiser with little or no serious content. Molière, with his 'Impromptu de Versailles', transformed the genre by making of his 'comédie des comédiens' a vehicle for both satire of his rivalsand rebuttal oftheir criticisms, while also providing a platform from which to broadcast his own poetics of theatre.
KW - Literature in French
UR - http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/31859619?selectedversion=NBD44214496
UR - http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?vID=11537&vLang=E&vHR=1&vUR=2&vUUR=1
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9783039115372
T3 - Medieval and early modern French studies
SP - 117
EP - 138
BT - French Seventeenth-Century Literature : Influences and Transformations : essays in honour of Christopher J. Gossip
A2 - Southwood, Jane
A2 - Bourque, Bernard
PB - Peter Lang
CY - New York, United States of America
ER -