CONTENTS
 

PART I.  MUSIC AND PUBLIC THEATRE IN PARIS
 

1.  The Primacy of the Hôtel de Bourgogne (1600-1628)
2.  The Rise of the Théâtre du Marais (1629-1658)
3.  The Golden Age of Parisian Theatre (1658-1669)

4.  Competition with the Académie Royale de l'Opéra (1669-1673)
5.  The Reorganization of Public Theatre (1673-1680)

PART II.  THE PLACE AND FUNCTION OF MUSIC AND DANCE IN FRENCH PLAYS
 

Introduction
6.  Relations between French Plays and Ballets
7.  Music, Dance, and the Performance-within-the-Play
8.  The Fusion of Comedy and Ballet:  L'Amour malade and Les Fâcheux

Introduction
  9.  The Italian Pastoral e in France
10.  Music in the Early French Pastorale
11.  From Pastoral Comedy to Pastorale en Musique

Introduction
12.  Music in the Early Mythological Pastorale
13.  The Musical World of the Mythological Machine Play
14.  The Beginnings of French Opera

PART III.  MUSIC AND THE THEATRE OF MOLIÈRE
 

Introduction

Introduction
15.  The Public Reception of a Court Success:  La Princesse d'Élide
16.  Comic Vision and Revision in Le Mariage forcé and Le Sicilien
17.  Le Malade imaginaire and Its Revisions
18.  Musical Practices in Molière's Theatre

19.  Appropriation, Parody, and the Birth of Opera:  Lully's Les Festes de l'Amour et de Bacchus and Molière's Le Malade imaginaire