Derek Connon
Biographic Data
| ID | 965976 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Derek Connon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Derek |
| FAMILY NAME | Connon |
| SIGNATURE | CONNON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swansea University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Jean's Just Wild(e) About Oscar
In 1908 Jean Cocteau completed with his friend Jacques Renaud an adaptation for the stageof Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray. Wilde's death in Paris in 1900 had made him animportant figure for young French writers, and references to his works can be found in anumber of the very early works of Cocteau. The nature of the adaptation and the way that thestructure of the novel facilitates the creation of a stage version are examined, as well as is…
Diderot and Destouches
To say that Diderot's most famous contribution to the theatre is his invention of the drame , which combines sentimentalism and didacticism, is simply to repeat a commonplace. Yet one can argue that the sentimental strain was already well established in French theatre when he began his dramatic experiments in the 1750s, and that the recognition of the didactic possibilities of theatre went back much further. Nevertheless, it remains Diderot who g…
Notes From a Collaboration
In 1925 Cocteau received a request from Stravinsky to write a libretto for a work based on Sophocles' Oedipus Rex . After going through various revisions, Cocteau's libretto was eventually translated into Latin before Stravinsky set it to music, with only a series of narrations for the character of the Speaker remaining in French. Various aspects of the performance history of the work contribute to a sense of Cocteau's progressive elision from it…
La Matrone chinoise; ou, l'épreuve ridicule
Pierre-René Lemmonier: Édition critique par Ling-Ling Sheu. (Exeter Textes Littéraires, 4). University of Exeter Press, 2003. xii+116 pp. Pb £16.99. Lemmonier's La Matrone chinoise; ou, l'épreuve ridicule (1765) is an entertaining comedy in two acts written for the Théâtre Italien. Although billed on the title page as a comédie ballet, it in fact includes only one dance interlude introduced by a song, and has a vaudeville finale. One of its most …
Sedaine, Greuze and the Boundaries of Genre
Hierarchy or opposition? Understanding genre in eighteenth-century France 2. The Salon and the Opera-Comique 3. Savetier and philosophe: Sedaine's career from 1756 to 1765 4. Le Fils ingrat? Greuze's career from 1755 to 1763 5. Reproaching Greuze: Septime Severe 6. Maillard, or Sedaine thwarted 7. From opera-comique to melodrama: Sedaine and Greuze in the 1770s 8. 'Vous y trouverez une famille': Sedaine and David Conclusion: 'Murailles que separe…
French Theatre in the Neo-Classical Era, 1550-1789
Innovation and Renewal
Diderot—Le XVIIIe Siècle en Europe et au Japon
(1989). Diderot—Le XVIIIe Siecle en Europe et au Japon. History of European Ideas: Vol. 10, No. 6, pp. 748-749
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Diderot—Le XVIIIe Siècle en Europe et au Japon
(1989). Diderot—Le XVIIIe Siecle en Europe et au Japon. History of European Ideas: Vol. 10, No. 6, pp. 748-749
Innovation and Renewal
French Theatre in the Neo-Classical Era, 1550-1789
Sedaine, Greuze and the Boundaries of Genre
Hierarchy or opposition? Understanding genre in eighteenth-century France 2. The Salon and the Opera-Comique 3. Savetier and philosophe: Sedaine's career from 1756 to 1765 4. Le Fils ingrat? Greuze's career from 1755 to 1763 5. Reproaching Greuze: Septime Severe 6. Maillard, or Sedaine thwarted 7. From opera-comique to melodrama: Sedaine and Greuze in the 1770s 8. 'Vous y trouverez une famille': Sedaine and David Conclusion: 'Murailles que separe…
La Matrone chinoise; ou, l'épreuve ridicule
Pierre-René Lemmonier: Édition critique par Ling-Ling Sheu. (Exeter Textes Littéraires, 4). University of Exeter Press, 2003. xii+116 pp. Pb £16.99. Lemmonier's La Matrone chinoise; ou, l'épreuve ridicule (1765) is an entertaining comedy in two acts written for the Théâtre Italien. Although billed on the title page as a comédie ballet, it in fact includes only one dance interlude introduced by a song, and has a vaudeville finale. One of its most …
Diderot and Destouches
To say that Diderot's most famous contribution to the theatre is his invention of the drame , which combines sentimentalism and didacticism, is simply to repeat a commonplace. Yet one can argue that the sentimental strain was already well established in French theatre when he began his dramatic experiments in the 1750s, and that the recognition of the didactic possibilities of theatre went back much further. Nevertheless, it remains Diderot who g…
Notes From a Collaboration
In 1925 Cocteau received a request from Stravinsky to write a libretto for a work based on Sophocles' Oedipus Rex . After going through various revisions, Cocteau's libretto was eventually translated into Latin before Stravinsky set it to music, with only a series of narrations for the character of the Speaker remaining in French. Various aspects of the performance history of the work contribute to a sense of Cocteau's progressive elision from it…
Jean's Just Wild(e) About Oscar
In 1908 Jean Cocteau completed with his friend Jacques Renaud an adaptation for the stageof Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray. Wilde's death in Paris in 1900 had made him animportant figure for young French writers, and references to his works can be found in anumber of the very early works of Cocteau. The nature of the adaptation and the way that thestructure of the novel facilitates the creation of a stage version are examined, as well as is…
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