// Présentation

Consacrée à la publication d’études sur le théâtre du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance européens – et d’abord anglais – ainsi que sur la culture qui le nourrit, la collection « Theta » se veut lieu de rencontre et de débat, accueillant toutes les approches mais privilégiant des questions de mise en scène, de représentation et de techniques dramaturgiques.

Primarily meant to host studies of the drama of the English—and European—Middle Ages and Renaissance, as well as the culture in which it is rooted, the « Theta » series aims to be a forum of exchange and debate. All approaches are welcome, but a special emphasis is placed on issues of staging, representation and techniques of performance.

Responsables : Richard Hillman & André Lascombes

ISSN 1776-1026

// Liste des parutions

Theta XIII - Forms of the Supernatural on Stage: Evolution, Mutations
Articles issus de la XVe Table Ronde sur le Théâtre Tudor, Tours, les 7-8 septembre 2017
Textes réunis par Richard Hillman
Publié le 09/07/2018 - Scène européenne, « Theta »

The subject of this volume presents a particular historical interest in the English context, given the impact of the religious reforms (and counter-reforms) over the sixteenth century.

 ... [Lire la suite]
Theta XII - Folly’s Family, Folly’s Children
Articles issus de la XIVe Table Ronde sur le Théâtre Tudor, Tours, les 3-4 septembre 2015
Textes réunis par Richard Hillman
Publié le 01/07/2016 - Scène européenne, « Theta »

In the third of a series of Round Tables on Tudor Theatre dedicated to different aspects of folly, participants addressed the associations and (af)filiations of pertinent characters, or aspects of the motif itself, in works ranging from medieval morality plays to the comedies of Ben Jonson.

 ... [Lire la suite]
Theta XI - The Discourses of Folly, Onstage and Off
Articles issus de la XIIIe Table Ronde sur le Théâtre Tudor, Tours, les 5-6 septembre 2013
Textes réunis par Richard Hillman
Publié le 01/09/2014 - Scène européenne, « Theta »

The approach chosen for the second of three Round Tables on Tudor Theatre concerned with folly is founded, most fundamentally, on the recorded usages in the early modern period of the terms “folly” and “madness”, both of which could carry varying degrees of intensity and either anticipate or blur the distinctions established in modern English between them.

 ... [Lire la suite]
Theta X - Folly and Politics
Articles issus de la XIIe Table Ronde sur le Théâtre Tudor, Tours, les 7-9 septembre 2011
Textes réunis par Richard Hillman et Pauline Ruberry-Blanc
Publié le 01/04/2013 - Scène européenne, « Theta »

For this first of a three-part series of Round Tables on Tudor Theatre focused on the staging and function of folly in the medieval and early modern English theatre, participants studied the relations between folly, or madness, in different forms, and politics, also variously understood.

 ... [Lire la suite]
Theta IX - Ideologies in Debate: Spectacle and Representation in Tudor England
Articles issus de la XIe Table Ronde sur le Théâtre Tudor, Tours, les 9-11 septembre 2009
Textes réunis par André Lascombes, Richard Hillman et Pauline Ruberry-Blanc
Publié le 01/05/2011 - Scène européenne, « Theta »

Contributors explore a wide variety of dramatic texts ranging chronologically from the fifteenth century to the seventeenth, illustrating how the concept of ideology may be applied to several domains: politics, of course, but also religion and relations between the sexes.

 ... [Lire la suite]
Theta VIII - Seeing Is Believing – Or Is It?
Articles issus de la Xe Table Ronde sur le Théâtre Tudor, Tours, les 5-8 septembre 2007
Textes réunis par André Lascombes et Richard Hillman
Publié le 01/09/2009 - Scène européenne, « Theta »

The terms defining the thematic framework of this volume direct attention to the essential experience of theatrical illusion-making, as well as to the question of religious belief, which was central to the theatre of the Middle Ages and continued to figure well into the Renaissance in varying forms.

 ... [Lire la suite]
Theta VIII(a) – Numéro Spécial ‘Everyman’ Studies
Articles issus des Journées d’études sur Everyman, Tours, 10-11 octobre 2008
Textes réunis par Richard Hillman
Publié le 12/12/2008 - Scène européenne, « Theta »

Seizing the occasion of the appearance of Everyman (for the second time) on the programme of the French Agrégation programme in English, members of the Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance (Université de Tours/CNRS) invited an international panel of specialists to offer new perspectives on the most widely known, edited and discussed specimen of medieval English drama.

 ... [Lire la suite]
Theta VII - Outsiders Within (Dedans/Dehors): Figures of Mediation
Articles issus de la IXe Table Ronde sur le Théâtre Tudor, Tours, les 15-18 septembre 2004
Textes réunis par André Lascombes et Richard Hillman
Publié le 01/02/2007 - Scène européenne, « Theta »

Medieval and early modern English drama proliferates characters and devices that mediate between spectator and spectacle, calling attention to the process of theatrical representation as such.

 ... [Lire la suite]