féerie - Credo Reference
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féerie - Credo Reference
féerie From "The Cambridge Guide to Theatre" The Cambridge Guide to Theatre, © Cambridge University Press 2000 Type of French spectacular show, whose action derives from magical, fantastic or supernatural elements; heavy on production values and stage machinery. Its forebears are the pièces à machines produced at the Théâtre du Marais in the mid-17th century, with classical mythology supplying the plots. Abbé Boyer's Ulysse dans l'Île de Circe (1648) was a grandiose example, while Molière and Corneille's Psyché (1670) represents a pocket version. In the late 18th century, the fantastic infiltrated fairground pantomimes, as in Arlequin dans un oeuf at the Théâtre des Jeunes-Artistes, to produce in the 19th century the synthetic féerie. The first true success was Le Pied du mouton (Théâtre de la Gaîté, 1806), a much revived extravaganza in which a magic sheep's trotter unleashes a host of miracles. It was superseded by Les Pilules du diable (Cirque Olympique, 1839) and a succession of invariably successful shows, such as La Biche au bois (known in the English-speaking world as The White Fawn), La Chatte Blanche and Peau d'Âne, based on fairy tales and romances. Since the transformations, tricks and apotheoses required a large stage, the Châtelet and then the Porte-Saint-Martin (see boulevard) under Marc Fournier became its favourite haunts. Romantic authors appreciated the dream-like qualities of the féerie (even Flaubert turned his hand to writing one, which went unproduced); it exercised an important influence on the development of Burlesque, musical comedy and early cinema. LS The Cambridge Guide to Theatre, © Cambridge University Press 2000 Persistent URL to the Entry: http://public.credoreference.com/content/entry/cupthea/f%C3%A9erie/0 APA Féerie. (2000). In M. Banham (Ed.), The Cambridge guide to theater. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://public.credoreference.com/content/entry/cupthea/f%C3%A9erie/0 MLA "Féerie." The Cambridge Guide to Theater, edited by Martin Banham, Cambridge University Press, 2000. Credo Reference, http://public.credoreference.com/content/entry/cupthea/f%C3%A9erie/0. Accessed 15 Feb 2017. Chicago "Féerie". 2000. In The Cambridge Guide to Theater, edited by Martin Banham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. http://public.credoreference.com/content/entry/cupthea/f%C3%A9erie/0 Harvard Féerie (2000). [Online]. In M Banham (ed.). The Cambridge guide to theater. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Available from: http://public.credoreference.com/content/entry/cupthea/f%C3%A9erie/0 [Accessed 15 February 2017].