Alexandre Hardy

Alexandre Hardy ( * 1570 in Paris, † 1632) was a French playwright.

Life and work

Although he is hardly known in France, Hardy was one of the most prolific playwrights of the French literary history in general with its apparently more than 600 pieces. His influence on the playwrights in addition to and immediately after him, as well as on the public taste of the time was great.

Most of his tragedies, tragi-comedies and pastorals he wrote from 1593 to the Force by the actor Valleran Lecomte, which occurred in the hall of the Hôtel de Bourgogne, but went about in the province. His audience were therefore not only the educated circles in nobility and bourgeoisie, but also uneducated audience eg at fairs. The fact that he wrote exclusively for a certain force is certainly the reason that he left his unpublished pieces usually. After printing, ie they would have been free and should have been listed by konkurrierendenTruppen.

His fabrics Hardy moved relatively indiscriminately from the classical and ancient and late antique, but also for the younger French, Italian and Spanish literature. Here, he worked frequently both older and newer pieces according to his ideas and those of his actors simply just. But he also dramatized narrative works and has resulted, for example, the famous love and adventure novel Theagenes and Chariklea of Heliodorus (3rd / 4th century ), which was used in France since 1548 Jacques Amyot's translation, in a series of eight episodes. Naturally act of composition and style of his rapidly written pieces often fleeting, but he was an experienced practitioner who knew how to captivate his audience through action-packed activities, exciting, sometimes brutal scenes and vivid acting figures.

When he no longer for only a troop (albeit mainly for the Paris Théâtre du Marais ) worked according to Lecomte's death, Hardy was 1624-28 a selection of 34 pieces in 6 volumes out ( reprinted in 5 vols. , Marburg 1883-84 ). Only these pieces have survived.

The authors of the next generation, such as Jean Chapelain or Jean Mairet who developed the rules and ideas of classical French theater around 1635, it did not last in direct response to Hardy, which she randomness, lack of taste and rawness accused. Even before it had harmed his image, that of the Paris literary guru François de Malherbe explained his style to be unreadable.

Tragedies

  • Didon se sacrifiant
  • Scédase ou l' Hospitalité violée
  • Panthée
  • Méléagre
  • La Mort d' Achille
  • Corolian
  • Marianne
  • La Mort de Daire
  • La Mort d' Alexandre
  • Timoclée ou la vengeance Juste
  • Lucrèce (after Lope de Vega )
  • Alcméon ou la vengeance féminine

Tragi-

  • Arsacome
  • Dorise
  • Frégonde
  • Elmire ou l' Heureuse bigamy
  • Gésippe (after Boccaccio )
  • Phraarte
  • Cornélie
  • La Force du sang
  • Félismène
  • La Belle slab serif
  • Les amours de Chastes et loyal Théagène et Chariclée
  • Le Ravissement de Proserpine par Pluton
  • La gigantomachy

Pastoral

  • Alphée, ou la justice d' amour (the best of his pastorals )
  • Alcée
  • Corinne
  • Le Triomphe de l' Amour
  • L' Amour ou victorieux Venge
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