Театр в творчестве и в жизни Маргариты Наваррской

Abstract

The article is devoted to the works of the famous writer of the Renaissance epoch – Marguerite of Navarre. Her dramatic works have not yet been translated into Russian and there is extremely little information about them in Russian theatre studies. They have no analogues in the theatre of the first half of the 16th century. Their peculiarity is a combination of the tendencies of late medieval and Renaissance art. On the basis of rare documents and texts of the plays “The Comedy of the Desert”, “The Inquisitor” and “The Comedy of Mont-deMarsan” the problems of their stage interpretation are considered. Marguerite of Navarre composed her plays specifically for staging, not for reading. She was looking for expressive possibilities that had not yet been used by anyone before her. For many reasons, her experiments were not famous beyond her court. The performances were single, staged in different places where she lived, with different performers, so that no more or less stable tradition was created in this circle. Therefore, it is impossible to reconstruct the “theatre of Marguerite of Navarre” as an artistic unit. At the same time, the originality and even the uniqueness of this material makes it possible to study little-known aspects of the history of French theatre in the period of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.