Introduction -- The divided scene of theatre space in the neo-classical era. Paris theatre spaces before reform -- The perspective apparatus -- The versatile space of the Jeu de paume -- The theatrical frame in French neo-classical dramatic theory. Mirror plays -- Rationalist and theatrical minor wo...

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Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge [u.a.] Cambridge Univ. Press 2014
Ausgabe:	1. publ.
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1700-1800 Geschichte Theater architecture / History / 18th century / France Theaters / History / 18th century / France French drama / History and criticism / 18th century Architecture and society / History / 18th century / France Theater Frankreich
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Zusammenfassung:	Introduction -- The divided scene of theatre space in the neo-classical era. Paris theatre spaces before reform -- The perspective apparatus -- The versatile space of the Jeu de paume -- The theatrical frame in French neo-classical dramatic theory. Mirror plays -- Rationalist and theatrical minor worlds -- Dubos's Lockean formula -- Diderot's first paradox -- Enlightenment spectators and the theatre of experiment. The spectator as epistemological figure -- Experimental physics and its spaces -- Experimental dramaturgy -- Window plays -- Theatre architecture reform and the spectator as sense function. Mid-century critiques -- The spectatorial act -- The geometry of sense -- Optics and stage space in enlightenment theatre design. Epistemologies of visual space -- Models of the eye -- Ocular morphology -- perspective destabilized -- Epilogue: modern spectatorial consciousness
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:	XII, 288 S.
ISBN:	9781107079168 1107079160