This paper explores the critical reflexivity between actors and the audiences by focusing on François-Joseph Talma during the French Revolution. Admirers wrote letters to Talma filled with advice which may have prompted Talma’s dramatic style, his theory about “creative imagination”, and his belief in an actor’s mission to be like a history teacher, which he would later develop in Réflexions sur Lekain et sur l’art théâtral (1825). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Lettres, History, Imagination créatrice, Comédie-Française, Interpretation, Reflection, Révolution française, Réflexion, Histoire, Talma, Correspondance, Interprétation, Creative imagination, Observations, French Revolution
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Cet article explore la relation de réflexivité critique entre spectateur et comédien, à partir du cas de François-Joseph Talma sous la Révolution. Des spectateurs formulent des critiques et conseils dans des lettres qui ont pu aiguillonner le style actorial de Talma, sa conception de « l’imagination créatrice » et la mission de « professeur d’histoire » qu’il assigne au comédien dans les Réflexions sur Lekain et sur l’art théâtral (1825)., This paper explores the critical reflexivity between actors and the audiences by focusing on François-Joseph Talma during the French Revolution. Admirers wrote letters to Talma filled with advice which may have prompted Talma’s dramatic style, his theory about “creative imagination”, and his belief in an actor’s mission to be like a history teacher, which he would later develop in Réflexions sur Lekain et sur l’art théâtral (1825).