The whole art of the stage / written in French by the command of Cardinal Richelieu by Monsieur Hédelin, Abbot of Aubignac, and now made English.
| Author/creator | Aubignac, François-Hédelin |
| Format | Microform |
| Publication Info | London : Printed for the author, and sold by William Cadman..., 1684. |
| Description | 6 unnumbered pages, 135, 176 pages ;. |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Pratique du théâtre. 1684. English |
| Series | Source materials in the field of theatre ; no. 50, Reel 12 Drama and Theatre. Theory and criticism Source materials in the field of theatre ; no. 50, Reel 12. UNAUTHORIZED Drama and Theatre. Theory and criticism. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents | Book I: Being instead of a preface to the whole work wherein is treated of the necessity of publick spectacles, of the esteem of the Ancients had them in, and in what state they are now amongst us--The design of the whole work--What is to be understood by the art of the stage--Of the rules of the Ancients--How they ought to instruct themselves, who intend to write a drammatick poem--Of the spectators, and how they are to be considered by the poet--Of the mixture of representation, with the truth of the theatral action--How the poet must make his decorations, and other necessary actions in the play, known to the audience--Book II: Of the subject of drammatick poems--Of probability and decency--Of the unity of action--Of the continuity of the action--Of the subjects with two walks, whereof one is by modern authors called episode--Of the unity of place--The extent of the theatral action, or of the time fit to be allowed a drammatick poem--Of the preparation of the incidents-- |
| General note | Subtitle: Containing not only the rules of the drammatick art, but many curious observations about it, which may be of great use to the authors, actors, and spectators of plays; together with much critical learning about the stage and plays of the ancients. |
| General note | Of the catastrophe or issue of the drammatick poem--Book III: Of the actors or persons to be brought upon the stage, and what the poet is to observe about them--Of discourses in general--Of narrations--Of deliberations--Of didactick discourses or instructions--Of pathetick discourses, or of the passions and motions of the mind--Of the figures--Of monologues, or discourses made by a single person--Of a partes, or discourses made to onesself in the presence of others--Of the acts--Of the intervals of the acts--Of the scenes--Of spectacles, machines, and decorations of the stage--Book IV: Of the quantitative parts of the drammatick poem, and particularly of the Prologue--Of episodes according to the doctrine of Aristotle--Of the choruses of the Ancients--Of the ancient actors, or first reciters of episodes against the opinon of some modern writers--Of tragicomedy--An analysis, or examen of the first tragedy of Sophocles, entituled Ajax, upon the rules deliver'd for the practice of the stage--A project for re-establishing the French theatre. |
| General note | "The translator has made some alterations in the author's method & order of his chapters, for the author having promiscuosly placed much of the crabbed antiquity learning among the other observations upon the drammatick art; and that being likely to disqust some readers the translator has put it all in one Book at the latter end...."--Translator's preface. |
| Reproduction note | Joyner- Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms, 1956. On reel 12 of 22 microfilm reels ; 35 mm. (Source materials in the field of theatre ; no. 50, Reel 12) |
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| Joyner | Microforms | MICROFILM SO84 NO. 50 REEL 12 | ✔ Available |