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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 |
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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 |
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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
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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 |
