メネストリエのバレエ理論からみたノヴェール : 『舞踏とバレエについての手紙』(一七六〇)における借用を巡って

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Des ballets anciens et modernes selon les regies du theatre (1682) by Claude-Francois Menestrier is known as one of the most important theoretical books on ballet. Being referred to by Cahusac who wrote the articles "Ballet" and "Danse" in Diderot's Encyclopedie, the book on ballet du cour seems to have had significant influence also on the 18th-century ballet reforms. This paper compares this book with Lettres sur la danse, et sur les ballets (1760) by Jean-George Noverre, showing that Noverre also wrote his Lettres on the basis of this book on ballet du cour. In the chapter 7 in Lettres, in which the rules of ballet are discussed, Noverre cites some lines from classical literature by Saint Augustine, Plutarch and Aristotle, from which Menestrier also quoted the same passages, (and actually Noverre seems to have borrowed these from Menestrier), but their arguments developed from these same classic quotes are completely different. By focusing the traits in common and difference in their arguments, this paper tries to reinterpret Noverre's statements in Lettres, revealing that this book relies on Menestrier's theory of ballet poetics.