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French Drama 18th Century
-lots of copies of Racine
-moving towards melodrama-clear lines between good and evil
-mixing genres-tragicomedies
-move towards external action rather than psychological
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Voltaire
1694-1778
dominates philosophy, wrote 52 plays
-tragedies continue complex plots with many recognitions and reversals
-1732 "zaire one of best plays
-starting to lead towards revoluntionary-writes plays about french national past
Dennis diderot
-writes "drame" sometimes called domestic comedies
-suggested staging innovations in ceasing illusion of reality
-advocated for 4th wall acting-no cognisance of the audience, but is hard because audience members still are allowed on stage
-makes observaions of Garrick, wrote about the paradox of the actor and emotionalist acting where the actor feels the emotions but can never do the same thing twice and anti-emotionalist acting where you evoke the emotion, show it without actually feeling it
Pierre Carlet de Chamberlain de Marivaux
-known as Mariveaux. 1688-1763
-writes 35 plays total mostly commedie itallienne
-most famous french comic playwright of the 18th century
-plays are concerned with awakening of love: more subtle emotional acting, the obstacles in the play include inner conflict rather than external force and the physical obstacles represent the psychological struggles of the characters.
-prose style is so distinctive it becomes known as marivaudage
What changed for the dramatist?
-improved
-copywright and payment starts to be regulated by government-royalties established
-meant for the first time a playwright could make a living
1759 no more audience on stage, and increased use of spectacle
-1777 Beaumarchais and others create bureau dramatique
-1786 conservetoire comedie francais-first ever theatre school is created
-1789 revolution and new government, copywright laws become cemented and include heirs of playwright for up to 5 years after death
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