This is a comprehensive critical and theatrical study of the nineteen plays of Susanna Centlivre (16691723). After an initial chapter that examines the work of three women dramatists active in the years 1695-1700, the seven following chapters are each devoted to between one and four of Mrs. Centlivre's plays. The order of treatment is chronological, but most space is allotted to the three major plays, The Busie Body (1709), The Wonder (1714-), and A Bold Stroke for Wife (1718). Literary concerns such as plot, structure, and character are considered, as well as theatrical qualities such as pace, timing, and tension. No uniformity of treatment is attempted, however, and such aspects of each play are discussed as seem most appropriate. New primary material includes the manuscript epilogues for a private performance of The Garriester; the original receipt for Curll's payments to Mrs. Centlivre; the Advice from Parnassus; and the prompt-books of The Wonder. But more significant than this new material is the study's theatrical emphasis: its analysis of particular scenes to bring out their theatrical qualities, and the reconstruction of the staging of The Busie Body and filar-Plot (1710). The study's conclusion recognizes the essentially theatrical nature of Mrs. Centlivre's dramatic art, and reconstructs the "typical" Centlivre play from exaJiples drawn from her most characteristic collieries. Gverall, the study combines critical enquiry into the "art" of a dramatist's oeuvre with a historical investigation of its theatrical environment. / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Henry de Montherlant a développé tout au long de sa vie une œuvre théâtrale importante et variée. La problématique de l'action fournit une piste pour pénétrer dans son univers dramaturgique. Selon les critiques contemporains, les pièces de Montherlant manquent d'action. Le dramaturge a renoncé aux coups de théâtre et rebondissements extérieurs pour créer une action dont la seule machinerie consiste à décrire les mouvements intérieurs de l'âme humaine. Cet idéal est inspiré d'une conception classique du théâtre où la simplicité de l'action conduit à l'analyse psychologique. Le but de ce travail est d'identifier l'action et d'analyser son fonctionnement. La première partie, s'appuyant sur la théorisation antique de la dramaturgie, aborde l'action comme intrigue. La partie suivante montre comment l'action extérieure, superposée au mouvement, est supplantée par la parole : l'action est alors considérée comme acte. Cette partie complète l'étude de l'action avec trois approches : l'approche pragmatique et l'approche communicationnelle d'une part, qui permettent d'analyser le phénomène de la parole comme acte, et l'analyse actantielle d'autre part qui appréhende la psychologie du personnage que la dramaturgie classique et néo-classique appelle le caractère, et montre comment l'auteur construit l'intrigue. La dernière partie est consacrée au temps et à l 'espace comme éléments constitutifs de l'action dramatique. / According to Montherlant, the dramatic turn of events and the external twists are a disturbance to the simplicity of the action which lone guiding force may aim at the exploration of the movements of the human soul. The main critics which are made to these plays are that they lack substance and dramatic intensity. This work which objective is to identify and analyse the action in Montherlant's dramatic art, originates from the antic theory of the dramatic art, in order to tackle the action as the plot. The next part shows how the external action stacked to the movement, is supplanted by the speech. This part completes the study of the action by three approacheas: the pragmatic approach and the communicative approach in the one hand, and the actancial analysis in the other hand. The last part deals with time and space as constituent of the dramatic action

[pt] Em sua origem, o termo vinheta designava representações visuais de caráter simbólico que ornamentavam as iluminuras. As vinhetas ganham identidade gráfica com o aparecimento da imprensa. A vinheta será uma das primeiras manifestações da programação visual - tendo sua origem nas iluminuras. No início do século XX, a linguagem cinematográfica incorporou as vinhetas, tanto como recurso para a abertura dos filmes quanto para os cartazes que passavam informações escritas entre as diferentes seqüências, no cinema mudo. Originárias das aberturas de filmes, as vinhetas de abertura da teledramaturgia da TV Globo apresentam uma linguagem específica, cujo teor estético pode ser relevante. Enquanto nos filmes o espectador vê as vinhetas de abertura apenas uma vez, na televisão as vinhetas são repetidas a cada programa ou a cada capítulo da telenovela, o que permite uma outra espécie de envolvimento. O telespectador é capaz de perceber melhor as vinhetas de abertura das telenovelas dada a sua repetição; poderá analisá-las e, então interpretá-las. Nesse caso, o caráter estético das vinhetas pode ser mais bem avaliado, uma vez que a repetição propicia a existência maior das imagens, liberta, portanto, da imediaticidade do instante da apresentação única do cinema. A cada repetição, o olhar do telespectador encontra novas possibilidades de associações, que lhe permitem fazer inferências significativas, bastante próximas às de um trabalho interpretativo do espectador diante de uma obra de arte. Após as primeiras vinhetas criadas pelo videographics (Departamento de criação e produção em Design da TV Globo), o Brasil tem se destacado mundialmente em termos de produção de vinhetas televisuais. Atualmente, o refinamento das técnicas permite efeitos diversificados, com movimentos rápidos, com a ilusão da tridimensionalidade, com as metamorfoses das imagens, grafismos, jogos cromáticos e sonoros - todos eles, entretanto, dependentes da supervisão e do envolvimento de um designer, que acrescenta uma dimensão poética aos efeitos programados pelo computador. / [en] The term vignette, originally, assigned the visual representations that decorated the iluminures and that they presented symbolic character. The vignettes gains graphical identity with the appearance of the press. The vignette goes to be one of the first manifestations of the visual programming, having its origin in the iluminures, That shows that a style form is the consequence of other already used previously art forms. Caming originary from the openings of the movies, the TV Globo soup-opera opening vignettes present a specific language, whose aesthetic text can be extremely relevant. In the beginning of century XX the cinematographic language incorporated the vignettes, as much for the opening of the films, how much for the posters that passed information written between different sequences, in the dumb cinema. While in the films the spectator sees the opening vignettes only one time, in the television the vignettes is repeated to each program or each chapter of the soap-opera, what allows another kind of envolvement. In this in case, some vignettes aesthetic characters can be better evaluated, a time that appears a time of perception of its images. It shows, therefore, a perception while duration - it frees, therefore, the instant immediate of the unic cinema presentation. The look of the viewer finds, to each repetition, new possibilities of associations that ahead allow significant inferences it sufficiently next to the interpretation work of a work of art. After the first vignettes created by videographics, (Department of creation and production in Design of the TV Globo) Brazil if has detached world-wide in terms of production of vignette televiews. Currently, the refinement of the techniques allows diversified effect, with fast movements, the three-dimensional illusion, the metamorphoses of the images, the design, the chromatic and sonorous games - all they, however, dependents of the supervision and envolvement of designers, that adds it the poetical dimension to the effect programmed for the computer.

Luís Alberto de Abreu é um importante dramaturgo contemporâneo brasileiro. Para além de seus textos teatrais, seu interesse e suas experiências no ensino de dramaturgia tem sido uma grande influência em toda a geração contemporânea de dramaturgos, artistas e estudantes de teatro. Este presente trabalho se pesquisa contempla três experiências pedagógicas de Luís Alberto de Abreu, considerando o conteúdo, encaminhamentos e atitudes pedagógicas. As experiências são bastante diferentes entre si, na medida em que se desenvolveram em grupos específicos: a primeira com a Cia. dos Dramaturgos, um grupo formado somente por dramaturgos, em seu projeto Escrita Aberta, de 2005-2006; a segunda com a Cia. Livre, um importante grupo de teatro de São Paulo - SP, cujo interesse foi convidar Abreu para falar sobre dramaturgia para o ator, no projeto África-Brasil, iniciado em 2010; e a terceira com um grupo de narradores, os Narradores de Passagem, em Santo André - SP, formado por iniciativa do próprio Abreu. O corpo da pesquisa se deve à documentação realizada em vídeo das três experiências, assim como entrevistas, estudos teóricos e anotações próprias e de outras pessoas relacionadas às experiências. Ao levantar as experiências pedagógicas de Luís Alberto de Abreu, o presente trabalho conclui que sua postura pedagógica, escolha de conteúdos e interesse estão diretamente ligados à inquietação do artista-pedagogo diante de um mundo saturado, no qual a linguagem teatral, em sua opinião, determina apenas um pequeno território de ação. / Luís Alberto de Abreu is an important modern brazilian playwright. Besides his theater texts, his interests as well as his experiences in teaching acting have been influencing a whole generation of modern playwrights, artists and theater students. This study contemplates three of his educational experiences, focusing on their contents, direction and educational attitude. These experiences are very distinct one from the other because they have been performed in specific groups. The first one took place with a group called Cia. dos Dramaturgos in its project called Escrita Aberta (2005-2006). This group is totally formed by playwrights. The second one was performed with Cia. Livre, an important theater group from São Paulo, whose interest was to invite Abreu to talk to actors about dramaturgy in a project started in 2010, named África-Brasil. The third one happened with a group of narrators from Santo André - São Paulo, named Narradores de Passagem. This group was formed by Abreu\'s own iniciative. This study is based on the video documentation of these three pedagogical experiences as well as interviews, theoretical studies and notes provided by me and by other people related to the experiences. Analysing his pedagogical experiences, this study concluded that Abreu\'s pedagogical approach, his content choices and interests are directly linked with the educator-actor\'s restlessness towards a saturated world where, according to him, theatrical language determines only a small action territory.

A presente pesquisa contribui para a análise dos processos de construção da cena teatral contemporânea, verificando a criação do encenador Enrique Diaz, da Cia dos Atores, com enfoque na prática desenvolvida por ele no espetáculo Ensaio.Hamlet. Procura-se estabelecer, neste trabalho, uma reflexão sobre as novas metodologias teatrais que marcam uma ruptura com o modelo dramático tradicional, investigando como se estrutura a construção da cena, da dramaturgia, do trabalho dos atores e do tempo teatral. O que se pretende, aqui, é, além de confirmar as técnicas desenvolvidas por Enrique no espetáculo Ensaio.Hamlet, e que são características de uma nova teatralidade, deixar registrados os procedimentos de criação de um dos mais profícuos artistas contemporâneos, colaborando, assim, com o registro da história do teatro brasileiro. / The current study contributes to the analysis of the constructing process of the contemporaneous scene, by verifying the work by Enrique Diaz (director Cia. dos Atores), focusing on his work called Ensaio.Hamlet. This study also establishes considerations on new theatre/drama methods which do not agree with the conventional drama standard, by examining how construction of scenes, dramatic art, actors acting and of the theatre timing are structured. The purpose of this study is, besides to confirm the techniques developed by Enrique in his play Ensaio.Hamlet, which are characteristics of the new theatre, also to record the creation procedures by one of the most profitable contemporaneous artists, by contributing then with the history record of the Brazilian theatre.

La Phèdre de Sénèque. Approche philosophique et dramaturgique. Le sujet ainsi défini s'articule autour de trois centres d'intérêts majeurs. Il importe d’abord, d’analyser la genèse proche et lointaine du mythe de Phèdre. Il convient ensuite de mettre en évidence l’art dramaturgique de Sénèque ; enfin, c'est à travers la confrontation de deux visions antithétiques du monde (la parole épicurienne telle qu’elle est exprimée par la Nourrice et la vision stoïcienne de l'univers incarné par le personnage d’Hippolyte), ainsi que par l’insistance sur la dialectique des passions qui animent tour à tour chacun des protagonistes, qu’on dégagera les fondements mêmes de la lecture philosophique que propose Sénèque de sa Phaedra. / Phaedra of Seneca : dramaturgical and philosophical approach. This defined subject is divided into three important parties : First, we will analyze the near and the distant genesis of the myth of Phaedra. Then, it will be suitable to put in light the dramaturgical art of Seneca ; finally, it’s through the confrontation of two antithetical visions of the world (the epicurean speech is expressed by the nurse and the stoic vision of the universe incarnated in the Hippolytus persona) and also by the insistence of the dialectic of passions that animate every one of the protagonists that we can even draw the foundations of the philosophical ideas that has been proposed to us by Seneca in Phaedra.

A presente pesquisa contribui para a análise dos processos de construção da cena teatral contemporânea, verificando a criação do encenador Enrique Diaz, da Cia dos Atores, com enfoque na prática desenvolvida por ele no espetáculo Ensaio.Hamlet. Procura-se estabelecer, neste trabalho, uma reflexão sobre as novas metodologias teatrais que marcam uma ruptura com o modelo dramático tradicional, investigando como se estrutura a construção da cena, da dramaturgia, do trabalho dos atores e do tempo teatral. O que se pretende, aqui, é, além de confirmar as técnicas desenvolvidas por Enrique no espetáculo Ensaio.Hamlet, e que são características de uma nova teatralidade, deixar registrados os procedimentos de criação de um dos mais profícuos artistas contemporâneos, colaborando, assim, com o registro da história do teatro brasileiro. / The current study contributes to the analysis of the constructing process of the contemporaneous scene, by verifying the work by Enrique Diaz (director Cia. dos Atores), focusing on his work called Ensaio.Hamlet. This study also establishes considerations on new theatre/drama methods which do not agree with the conventional drama standard, by examining how construction of scenes, dramatic art, actors acting and of the theatre timing are structured. The purpose of this study is, besides to confirm the techniques developed by Enrique in his play Ensaio.Hamlet, which are characteristics of the new theatre, also to record the creation procedures by one of the most profitable contemporaneous artists, by contributing then with the history record of the Brazilian theatre.

Luís Alberto de Abreu é um importante dramaturgo contemporâneo brasileiro. Para além de seus textos teatrais, seu interesse e suas experiências no ensino de dramaturgia tem sido uma grande influência em toda a geração contemporânea de dramaturgos, artistas e estudantes de teatro. Este presente trabalho se pesquisa contempla três experiências pedagógicas de Luís Alberto de Abreu, considerando o conteúdo, encaminhamentos e atitudes pedagógicas. As experiências são bastante diferentes entre si, na medida em que se desenvolveram em grupos específicos: a primeira com a Cia. dos Dramaturgos, um grupo formado somente por dramaturgos, em seu projeto Escrita Aberta, de 2005-2006; a segunda com a Cia. Livre, um importante grupo de teatro de São Paulo - SP, cujo interesse foi convidar Abreu para falar sobre dramaturgia para o ator, no projeto África-Brasil, iniciado em 2010; e a terceira com um grupo de narradores, os Narradores de Passagem, em Santo André - SP, formado por iniciativa do próprio Abreu. O corpo da pesquisa se deve à documentação realizada em vídeo das três experiências, assim como entrevistas, estudos teóricos e anotações próprias e de outras pessoas relacionadas às experiências. Ao levantar as experiências pedagógicas de Luís Alberto de Abreu, o presente trabalho conclui que sua postura pedagógica, escolha de conteúdos e interesse estão diretamente ligados à inquietação do artista-pedagogo diante de um mundo saturado, no qual a linguagem teatral, em sua opinião, determina apenas um pequeno território de ação. / Luís Alberto de Abreu is an important modern brazilian playwright. Besides his theater texts, his interests as well as his experiences in teaching acting have been influencing a whole generation of modern playwrights, artists and theater students. This study contemplates three of his educational experiences, focusing on their contents, direction and educational attitude. These experiences are very distinct one from the other because they have been performed in specific groups. The first one took place with a group called Cia. dos Dramaturgos in its project called Escrita Aberta (2005-2006). This group is totally formed by playwrights. The second one was performed with Cia. Livre, an important theater group from São Paulo, whose interest was to invite Abreu to talk to actors about dramaturgy in a project started in 2010, named África-Brasil. The third one happened with a group of narrators from Santo André - São Paulo, named Narradores de Passagem. This group was formed by Abreu\'s own iniciative. This study is based on the video documentation of these three pedagogical experiences as well as interviews, theoretical studies and notes provided by me and by other people related to the experiences. Analysing his pedagogical experiences, this study concluded that Abreu\'s pedagogical approach, his content choices and interests are directly linked with the educator-actor\'s restlessness towards a saturated world where, according to him, theatrical language determines only a small action territory.

Cette étude se propose de montrer comment Yukio Mishima a renouvelé l’art du nô tout en conservant de nombreux concepts dramaturgiques et esthétiques. Créant un genre nouveau, le nô moderne, l’écrivain a revitalisé ce théâtre en privilégiant son obsession du désir de mort. Greffés sur des nôs anciens, les pièces de Mishima revitalisent des figures et des mythes du passé dans un monde moderne dégradé, où la seule voie possible est celle qui mène à la douleur originelle, un retour vers un sacré dans lequel se lisent les obsessions et les rêves de mort du dramaturge. / This study offers to show how Yukio Mishima has renewed the art of nô while maintaining numerous aesthetic and drama concepts. By creating a new genre, the modern nô, the writer has revitalized this type of theatre, focusing on his obsession with death desire. Based on ancient no’s, Mishima's plays revitalize figures and myths of the past, in a deteriorated modern world where the only possible path is the one leading to original pain, going back to the sacred, which reflects the playwright's obsessions and dreams of death.

En 1954, lorsque Kateb Yacine publie Le Cadavre encerclé dans la revue Esprit, le metteur en scène Jean-Marie Serreau s’enthousiasme pour ce texte. Jean-Marie Serreau est alors un acteur très important de l’avant-garde théâtrale, qui mène une recherche esthétique et politique. Il est alors en train d’œuvrer à ce que la critique appellera plus tard le théâtre de la décolonisation. Le texte, publié dans une revue militante, mis en scène par un homme de théâtre engagé, représenté à Bruxelles lors d’une soirée très ouvertement politique, est d’emblée interprété comme un texte de militant. Pourtant, une étude de ce texte par le biais d’une approche sociocritique, en le confrontant à la production littéraire face à laquelle Kateb Yacine va se positionner ainsi qu’au discours ambiant, permet de porter un autre regard sur ce texte. À la lumière des archives de l’auteur, de sa production littéraire de jeunesse, systématiquement occultée par la critique, il apparaît que le texte relève plutôt d’un geste créateur typiquement romantique, dans la lignée des poètes romantiques qui furent les modèles de Kateb Yacine. Le texte est investi d’un matériau autobiographique très important, qui va être totalement occulté au moment de la réception du texte : en 1954, en plein commencement de la guerre d’Algérie, ce n’est pas un poète lyrique que les milieux littéraires réclament, mais un auteur militant. Les travaux de Jérôme Meizoz sur la notion de posture permettent de cerner les stratégies que Kateb a peu à peu élaborées pour négocier son apparition sur la scène littéraire. Le matériau autobiographique de l’œuvre, quant à lui, tentera de ressurgir au cours de la collaboration entre Kateb Yacine et Jean-Marie Serreau, pour finalement réapparaître dans la dernière œuvre de Kateb. Cette pièce sur la vie de Robespierre, Le Bourgeois sans-culotte, devient alors une pièce testamentaire, une cérémonie d’adieux de Kateb Yacine. / When Kateb Yacine publishes Le Cadavre encerclé in the review Esprit, in 1954, Jean-Marie Serreau praises this text immediately. At this time, Jean-Marie Serreau was a famous stage director and a very important pioneer of the dramatic avant-garde. His researches were both aesthetic and political at the same time. When he discovered Kateb Yacine, he was working on a very special kind of theatre, with the critics called the decolonisation theatre. Kateb’s text was published in a militant review, put on stage by someone who was an activist and performed in Brussels as part of a militant event : the text is immediately interpreted as militant itself. But a different analysis method – the sociocritical one – enables us to promote a different point of view. Studying how the text faces the contemporary litterary production makes appear how the writer tries to invent his position. The writer’s archives, his youth poems and letters, help us to understand that he does not write as a militant writer but as a romantic one – his models are XIXth century writers. The text shelters an important autobiographical material, which is condamned to be denied by the critics : in 1954 the war starts in Algeria, and the litterary circles do not want a lyrical poet but a commited writer to claim for decolonisation. Jérôme Meizoz’ works on the position concept enables us to stydu how Kateb Yacine constantly negociated the image he was assimilated to in this circles, his identity and position as a writer. Concerning the autobiographical material, Kateb Yacine will try to make it reappear all through his collaboration with Jean-Marie Serreau. It will finaly reappear in Kateb’s last play, Le Bourgeois sans-culotte. Originaly dedicated to Robespierre’s life, the play becomes Kateb’s testimony.