Claude Boyer

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Claude Boyer (* 1618 in Albi ; † July 22, 1698 in Paris ) was a French playwright and member of the Académie française .

life and work

Rise to a successful author

Claude Boyer attended the Jesuit College, which opened in Albi in 1623, and got to know the Jesuit theater there. He studied theology up to a baccalaureus. For his contemporaries he was the Abbé Boyer. In 1645 he went to Paris with his friend Michel Le Clerc (1622-1691) and had great success there with the performance of his first play La Porcie romaine . It was dedicated to Madame de Rambouillet , into whose literary salon it had found entry. Boyer became the protégé of Jean Chapelain . In no less than 27 dramatic works, Boyer showed himself to be a creative and experimental playwright who enjoyed success with the public, was appreciated by Corneille and was accepted into the Académie française in 1666 (seat no. 39).

Descent into contempt. Recent rehabilitation

With the meteoric rise of Racine from 1667 Boyer fell behind. The negative judgments of Boileau , Racine and Furetière made him an author despised by literary history, whom the Académie française still today as "Auteur médiocre qui a toujours rencontré l'hostilité du public" ( bad author who was never accepted by the public ) disqualified. The success achieved under the pseudonym Pader d'Assezan ( Agamemnon 1680) did nothing to change this. Only modern research ( Henry Carrington Lancaster and above all Georges Forestier, * 1951) has begun to appreciate his work. Many of his stage works are now critically edited (mostly in the Bibliothèque dramatique des CELLF, Center d'étude de la langue et des littératures françaises).

Works (selection)

Stage works (critical editions)

  • La Porcie romaine. Tragedy . 1646. Ed. Marie Roux. 1997. [1]
  • Tyridate. Tragedy . 1648. Ed. Laetitia Sergent. Droz, Geneva 1998.
  • Porus ou la générosité d'Alexandre. Tragedy . 1648. Ed. Hélène Crampon. 1996. (Mémoire de Maîtrise. Littérature française. Paris 3. 1996, unpublished)
  • La Mort des enfans de Brute. Tragedy . Edited by Amandine Chevreau-Martin. 1648. [2] . 2012-2013.
  • Ulysse dans l'île de Circé ou Euryloche foudroyé . Ed. Pauline Debienne. 1650. [3] . 2007.
  • Fédéric. Tragic comedy . Edited by Catherine Neveu. 1660. [4] . 2000.
  • La Mort de Demetrius. Tragedy . Edited by Claire Supplisson. 1661. [5] . 2000-2001.
  • Oropaste, ou le faux tonaxare . Tragedy. 1663. Ed. Georges Forestier with Christian Delmas. Droz, Geneva 1990.
  • Les Amours de Jupiter et de Sémélé. Tragedy . 1666. Ed. Évelyne Collinet. [6] . 2003-2004.
  • Le Jeune Marius. Tragedy . Ed. Isabelle Gérard. 1670. [7] . 1997.
  • Le Fils supposé . 1672. Ed. Laetitia Sergent. Droz, Geneva 1998.
  • Le Comte d'Essex. Tragedy . Edited by Fabienne Régnier. 1678. [8] . 1999.
  • Agamemnon. Tragedy . Edited by Celine Grihard. 1680. [9] . 2014-2015.
  • Artaxerce. Tragedy . Edited by Cécile Suignard. 1683. [10] . 2002-2003.
  • Judith. Tragedy . Edited by Thomas Marlat. 1695. [11] . 1998.

poetry

  • Les Caractères des Prédicateurs, des prétendans aux dignitez ecclésiastiques, de l'âme délicate, de l'amour profane, de l'amour saint. Avec quelques autres poésies chrestiennes . Coignard, Paris 1695.

literature

  • Sylvie Benzekri: Claude Boyer dramaturge. Une traversée du XVIIème siècle (1618–1698) . Thèse de doctorat. Litterature française. Paris 4th 2008.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.academie-francaise.fr/les-immortels/claude-boyer?fauteuil=39&election=01-01-1666
personal data
SURNAME Boyer, Claude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French playwright, member of the Académie française
DATE OF BIRTH 1618
PLACE OF BIRTH Albi
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1698
Place of death Paris