oa Révolutionner le théâtre tragique ou le métathéâtre à l’épreuve des genres dramatiques

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[Revolutionising Tragic Theatre, or Metatheatre in the Face of Dramatic Genres]

The tragedies of the last third of the 18th century abound with hanging settings, engineered spaces and action scenes. This aesthetic and technical revolution was preceded by diffuse dramatic processes even before the technical means of the time allowed a satisfactory scenic set. Thus the metatheatre in the French tragedy of the beginning of the century would announce the shift in the genre as a whole without affecting the noble style or reducing its moral or political significance. This type of tragedy revolutionised theatre up until the dawn of Romanticism.