...H. Carrington Lancaster © 1943 University of Washington 1943 BOILEAU’S PROPAGANDA FOR MOLIERE AND HIS TROUPE By H. CARRINGTONLANCASTER Boileau’s first verses were published in 1663. By 1668, when his eighth and ninth satires...

... the complex interplay of two theatrical cultures: that of the comici —itinerant, mixed-gender Italian troupes working throughout Europe in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries—and that of the all-male London stage. Because the comici improvised from scenarios, mixing elements of multiple plays...

... ce prince, il me donna ce soin. J’appris que la troupe de Moliere et de la BCjart Ctoit en Languedoc; je leur demandai qu’ils vinssent A La Grange.” This is quite unequivocal: Molicre was called to perform not on the basis of his or his family’s financial transactions, but upon the whim...

...,” its actors and actresses. As the bibliography shows, the wanderings of MoliPre’s troupe in the provinces have aroused the greatest interest among his biogra- phers. Much ink has also been spilled over MoliPre’s marriage with Armande Bkjart and its “scandalous” implications, whether...

... from the regular manner of contemporary coniedy and the accompanying jibes may in no wise be adjudged seri- ous enough to have caused the suspension of the troupe. It is rather in the use of overtly erotic material that one glimpses the possibility of offense, especially when it is remembered...

... L‘Hermite in 1652, in which version it acquired considerable favor. Mademoiselle de Montpensier had a veritable passion for the stage, and in February, 1653, had a large hall of the chateau converted into a theater even before her own apartment had been arranged. She immediately hired a troupe...

... reckoning of the human cost of Genest’s martyrdom. For Genest is not the only victim; his troupe suffers, too, deprived of its poet, star actor, and impresario. 16 Thus, in act 5, scene 2, the company’s leading actress, Marcelle, cast in the play within a play in the role of Adrian’s crypto-Christian...

.... As long as the roi soled remained alive, the Comedie Francaise retained its monopoly as the only of- ficial troupe of actors in the Paris area and continued to foster the dramatic traditions of the seventeenth century. During the years from 1701 to 1715 the tragedy most frequently acted...

....” In 1610 he became associated with his friend and fellow mu- sician, Philip Rosseter, in managing a troupe of child actors, first at Whitefriars, then at the Swan, and finally at Porter’s Hall, a private playhouse which they constructed near Puddlewharf in the precinct of Blackfriars...

... him farther. Bonnassies (Come‘- die-Frangaise, 1874, pp. 113-14) reproduces a list of persons admit- ted free to the theater in the first five months of 1697, including au- thors who were not actors and had begun writing for the troupe after 1688. As he names Regnard, Brueys, Palaprat, La...

... and pregnant phrase was, in his opinion, the duty and purpose of the actor. Dingelstedt, in turn, cultivated what has been called the “Bildregie,” which aimed to please the eye with beautiful stage-settings. “Man kommt zu schauen, man will am liebsten sehen.” The Duke of Meiningen and his troupe...

..., scene 8 of A Midsummer Night’s Dream includes “Pyramus and Thisby” but not the final blessing of the marriages by Oberon and his troupe, who enter after the court and the mechanicals have exited and therefore constitute scene 9. The stage-clearing criterion, though apparently sensible, creates...

... its monopoly as the only of- ficial troupe of actors in the Paris area and continued to foster the dramatic traditions of the seventeenth century. During the years from 1701 to 1715 the tragedy most frequently acted was Le Cid, and there were over 2,000 performances of comedies by Molicre...

... of the actor. Dingelstedt, in turn, cultivated what has been called the “Bildregie,” which aimed to please the eye with beautiful stage-settings. “Man kommt zu schauen, man will am liebsten sehen.” The Duke of Meiningen and his troupe fostered action, movement, and mass scenes with emphasis...

... without the benefit of external evidence) to a troupe of boys. After a productive lifetime of impor- tant work in Renaissance drama, Bradbrook is entitled to informed hunches, especially those that are often plausible as well as shrewd. Nor is she one to allow Germanic pedantries to impede...

... of external evidence) to a troupe of boys. After a productive lifetime of impor- tant work in Renaissance drama, Bradbrook is entitled to informed hunches, especially those that are often plausible as well as shrewd. Nor is she one to allow Germanic pedantries to impede the headlong rush of her...

... form, like reading the script of a motion picture, cannot to any degree replace the view- ing of the spectacle. The play is composed right on the stage accord- ing to spatial circumstances and according to the abilities and talents of the actors in the troupe. Of special significance...

... handled by a troupe of six actors.? Further fragmentary evidence, derived from an analysis of Zelauto itself, lends added weight to this argument and sug- gests, moreover, that the lost dramatic source with which Munday was working is more likely to have been Italian than English in origin...

...). Harmonically, whereas “Jim Crow” has only root positions without modulation, “The Guinea Maid” uses inverted chords 4  See Hans Nathan, “The Tyrolese Family Rainer, and the Vogue of Singing Mountain-Troupes in Europe and America,” Musical Quarterly 32, no. 1 (1946): 72. 154...

... auspices of the Ministry of Culture, many private theatrical troupes were nationalized. In addi- tion to Masrah al-Hakim, a theater company named for the pioneering playwright Tawfiq al-Hakim (1909-87), the group formerly known as the Nationalist Troupe I ZjJI], for instance, was reorganized...