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Le système des passions dans la tragédie lullyste. L’exemple de la fureur
System of passions in Lully’s tragedies en musique. The example of fury

Author(s): Céline Bohnert
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Nakladatelství Karolinum
Keywords: tragédie en musique; opera; dramaturgy; Lully; Quinault; passion; action; fury; rules; necessity

Summary/Abstract: What is the dramatic action in Lully and his librettists ’ “tragedies en musique”? We argue that it consists in the necessary deployment of a set of passions carefully articulated, according to an initially euphoric conception – some passions guarantee the world ’s harmony – that grows darker as the genre finds its autonomy in relation to the spectacular context from which it emerged.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 83-94
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: French
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