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- Title
François de Curel ou la «dédramatisation du drame».
- Authors
KACZMAREK, TOMASZ
- Abstract
François de Curel went down in the history of the French theatre as an author of 'thesis plays'. However, this playwright, who enjoyed an unquestionable fame in his day, caused controversy among supporters and defenders of traditional drama. Indeed, studying his first works, A False Saint and The Guest, we cannot but note that he resolutely turns his back on the regulatory principles of the fable inherited from Aristotle. He renounces the action based on a dramatic tension which goes from the exposure, through peripeteia--which inevitably head to the catastrophe--to the outcome. Like Ibsen, he 'under-dramatizes' the canonical form through 'retrospection', reversal of the sense of intrigue, and the presence of the 'passive characters', deprived of any will to act. Curel seems to offer a 'static drama' where, instead of interpersonal conflicts, we are witnessing intra-subjective confrontations in the psyche of the protagonists. By abandoning classical action, the writer deprives his characters of 'character' by concentrating on the psychological analysis of their lost soul. This is how, instead of an acting character, he puts forward a reflective or reciting character, who dwells on his disgust for life.
- Subjects
DE Curel, Francois; FRENCH drama
- Publication
Études Françaises, 2021, Vol 57, Issue 1, p121
- ISSN
0014-2085
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7202/1076119ar