TITLE: The second volume is entitled Cours de déclamation prononcé à l'Athénée de Paris; Par J. M. Larive, Lecteur de Sa Majesté la Reine d'Espagne, Correspondant de l'Institut de France, Membre de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et des Beaux-Arts de Naples, Membre associé de la Société Philotechnique, etc., etc.
YEAR:
On the title page of the first volume: An XII - 1804.
PUBLISHER:
Tome I: De l'imprimerie de Charles. A Paris, Chez Delaunay, Libraire, Palais du Tribunat, deuxième Galerie de Bois, n. 243. Chez l'Auteur, rue Grange-Batelière, n. 5. Some editions have another publisher: Chez Veuve Tilliard et fils, Libraires, rue Pavée Saint-André-des-Arcs, n. 17.
Tome II: Chez Delaunay, Libraire, Palais-Royal, Galerie de Bois, n. 243.
Online text: Tome I - Tome II, Partie I - Tome II, Partie II

In January 1804, Larive started a diction course in Paris. He then decided to publish his lessons in a organized fashion. Starting from what he has learned from the stage and the actors he worked with, Larive analyzes, with the help of examples from dramas, the theatrical practice and illusion, as well as all technical aspects: voice, gestures, mimicry, identification, sensibility, emotion, costumes, reception by the public. (See Valeria De Gregorio Cirillo, Un attore e il suo repertorio. Dall'Antico Regime alla Restaurazione: Jean Maudit Larive, Napoli, Liguori, 2010, pp. 324-325).
The first volume of the Cours, published in 1804, is divided, as the title specifies, into twelve séances in which the author analyzes ‘toutes les causes qui, dans les représentations dramatiques, donnent l'essor aux passions' (p. 203). The second volume in two tomes, published in 1810, ‘antologizes various scenes of the dramatic repertoire with acting annotations' (See Valeria De Gregorio Cirillo, Un attore e il suo repertorio. Dall'Antico Regime alla Restaurazione: Jean Maudit Larive, Napoli, Liguori, 2010, p. 363).

TRANSLATIONS:
Italian: «Corso di declamazione diviso in dodici incontri. Traduzione, introduzione e note Valeria De Gregorio Cirillo», Acting Archives Review, VI, no. 11 (May, 2016) 1-154 (see).