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Le théâtre de la foire des origines à 1762 : des tréteaux à l'or des boulevards, un cas d'appropriation culturelle et de détournement d'un média

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Auteur / Autrice : Isabelle Martin
Direction : Jacques Morel
Type : Thèse de doctorat
Discipline(s) : Littérature française
Date : Soutenance en 1993
Etablissement(s) : Paris 3

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The "theatre de la foire" blommed in paris in the saint-germain and the saint-laurent fairs from the end of louis xiv's reign to 1762, when it merges with the comedie italienne. This theater considered by its founders and its critics as totally original is heterogeneous. Its themes are borrowed from folklore or from french or foreign litterature, popular as well as scholar. It derives from the platform's entertainment, from the comedie italienne and the comedie francaise its technics and its characters. The "theatre de la foire" is however original in several aspects : it foretells the stricitly commercial entertainment concelved as an entreprise. It succeded to break the royal privileges that controled the theater in paris, by showing its absurdity through important lawsuits. It confiscated to its own benefit several parisian stages diverting its popular and anti establishment characteristics to create a synthesis expressing the ambitions of the french bourgeoisie. Its stage was used as a laboratory by some writers (lesage, fuselier, piron) for theatrical experiments which completely broke it away from the generes inherited from antiquity. This prolific theater (more than 600 plays), badly known, deserved to be analysed; its plays, its manuscripts, its writers and its critics to be redescovered.