Search for dissertations about: "Magnus Tessing Schneider"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words Magnus Tessing Schneider.

  2. 1. Costume in the Time of Reforms : Louis-René Boquet Designing Eighteenth-Century Ballet and Opera

    Author : Petra Dotlačilová; Magnus Tessing Schneider; Lena Hammergren; Sofia Pantouvaki; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; costume; design; theatre; opera; ballet; genre; reform; eighteenth century; France; ancien régime; Louis-René Boquet; Paris Opera; Jean-Georges Noverre; aesthetics; material culture; teatervetenskap; Theatre Studies;

    Abstract : The long eighteenth century was a turbulent period in France, many crucial reforms in society, politics and art challenging the established order of the ancien régime. This battle took place on the theatrical stage as well and materialized in the approach to costume. READ MORE

  4. 2. Rousseau's Idea of Theatre : From Criticism to Practice

    Author : Maria Gullstam; Magnus Tessing Schneider; Roland Lysell; Michael O'Dea; Martin Rueff; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Jean-Jacques Rousseau; theatre; the Enlightenment; pharmakon; perfectibility; aesthetics; imitation; the public festival; Pygmalion; Narcisse; ou L’Amant de lui-même; Le Devin du village; Theatre Studies; teatervetenskap;

    Abstract : As a critic of the moral consequences of Parisian theatre while writing plays and music for it, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) had a double relationship to the art form of theatre. This doctoral thesis argues that his seemingly double position towards the theatre is not necessarily contradictory. READ MORE