BRILLER SUR SCÈNE : L'ASTRONOMIE DANS LE THÉÂTRE DU GRAND SIÈCLE

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dc.contributor.advisorCampangne, Hervé Thomasen_US
dc.contributor.authorArnaud, Cybeleen_US
dc.contributor.departmentFrench Language and Literatureen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-06-25T05:31:48Z
dc.date.available2015-06-25T05:31:48Z
dc.date.issued2014en_US
dc.description.abstractJanuary 5th, 1634, the news of Galileo's condemnation by the Roman Catholic Church for his heretical belief in heliocentric theories -theories that postulate that the Earth orbits the Sun- reach France. As the professors of the Sorbonne condemn Galileo, as René Descartes, ever-cautious, chooses to forgo publishing his Treatise on the World, an ever increasing number of French writers turn to fiction to prove, attack, or simply present astronomical and cosmological theories to their audience. While much has been written about the new astronomy's relationship to poetry, proto-science fiction and vulgarization through novelization of scientific knowledge, its presence on the French stage, in comedies and ballets, has been mostly ignored by the scholarship. This thesis constructs a timeline of "natural philosophy theatre", tracking the movement of the sun and the earth and the representation of the theories elaborated by Copernicus, Tycho Brahé and Descartes through plays and ballets published in the 17th century and beyond, in order to analyze the function of laughter in the context of the scientific revolution. The following questions will be answered: How is the new astronomy presented on stage, both in comedies and ballets? What role does laughter play in the representation of science? Is it simply used to challenge the audience's beliefs? Is dance's only purpose to mimic the orbits of the planets, or does it hold a deeper meaning? What, if any, is the greater purpose of including scientific knowledge in theater?en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2T91K
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/16404
dc.language.isofren_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledRomance literatureen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledTheateren_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAstronomyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledastronomyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledballeten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFranceen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledlaughteren_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledtheatreen_US
dc.titleBRILLER SUR SCÈNE : L'ASTRONOMIE DANS LE THÉÂTRE DU GRAND SIÈCLEen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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