Laurence Marie holds an agrégation de Lettres modernes (2001) and a Ph.D. in Comparative literature from La Sorbonne University (2009). She has taught literature for about ten years at La Sorbonne, La Sorbonne Nouvelle, Nice and Angers Universities. She was the head of the book and ideas department at the French Embassy in the U.S. between September 2012 and August 2016, promoting French and Francophone writers countrywide.
Her research focuses on drama and the history of aesthetic ideas in 18th century Europe. She has written over 30 articles on related issues.
Her book, L’Art de l’acteur. Inventions du spectacle dans l’Europe des Lumières, recounts the different steps that led to the emergence of the first theories of stage performance. It shows how the first writings upon acting, by focusing on the body, played a central role in the transition between classical imitation and romantic expression.
She is currently working on an edition of the two first French adaptations of Macbeth (one that was refused by the Comédie-Française in 1783 and one that was accepted and performed that same year) and, more widely, on the aesthetic and political reception of Shakespeare in the 18th Century.
Selected bibliography
Book
L’Art de l’acteur. Inventions du spectacle dans l’Europe des Lumières, Presses de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne, forthcoming.
Edited volumes and book chapter
Chapter “Drama” in Histoire des traductions en langue française. xviie-xviiie siècles, Verdier, 2014 (coeditor with Claire Lechevalier).
Réécritures du crime. L’Acte sanglant sur la scène, in Littératures classiques, 2009 (coeditor with François Lecercle and Zoé Schweitzer).
Deux courtes pièces autour du mariage : Feydeau – Labiche, Paris, Flammarion, GF Étonnants classiques (with pedagogy notebook), 2010.
Marivaux, La Double Inconstance, Paris, Flammarion, GF Étonnants classiques, 2009.
Revues, modes d’emploi, in Labyrinthe, 31, 2008 (coeditor with Pierre Savy).
La Recherche dans tous ses éclats, in Labyrinthe, 18, 2004.
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