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30 Cards in this Set
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- Hogarth's "Industry and Idleness" series - displays the ideal virtuous apprentice - Middle Class Drama of the 18th century often featured an apprentice - encouraged this behavior |
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- Hogarth's "Industry and Idleness" series - displays immoral apprentice getting caught with a prostitute - Middle Class Drama of the century often featured an apprentice - similar themes in "The London Merchant" |
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- "La Perspective" painted by Watteau - 18th century Enlightenment France - shows a fête galante (a courtship party) where elite socialize in a park setting - slight melancholy tone |
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- "Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump" by Joseph Wright - 18th century Enlightenment France - showed how experiments posed as public entertainment - spectacle > learning > discussion |
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- "The Passions" by Charles Le Brun - acting in 18th century France - depicts faces and categorizing of emotions - mechanism and automatism as proposed by philosopher, Descartes |
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- "Garrick and Hogarth, or the Artist Puzzled" by R. Evan Sly - artist cannot depict actor's many emotions - spinning wheel of facial expressions behind painting - Diderot idealized Garrick as model actor |
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- painting of production of "The Dog of Montargis" - 1830 production in Vienna - all elements of a melodrama: spectacle, extraordinary circumstances, easily understood moral contrasts, elaborate set, scenic innovations |
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- painting of Edwin Forrest - most celebrated actor in Jacksonian America - strong body represented manhood and physical intensity - played Spartacus, Metamora, Macbeth - immersed himself in Native American culture to learn to "play Indian" |
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Performance |
- rehearsed artistic actions (Bial) - actions consciously separated from actor; includes role-playing, rituals, etc.: "consciousness of doubleness" (Carlson) - any live interaction or repeat without an original (Phelan) - present observers (Goffman) - rehearsal of social norms (Butler) |
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History |
- Written down and factual (Thucydides) - Gathering and recording of facts (Ranke) - what is recorded and transmitted of supposed events; "non-victors" ommited (Schechner) - record of significant events with the option of revision and truth-cleansing - open to source criticism - pursuit of truth
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The Collier Controversy |
- Jeremy Collier vs. John Dennis - Restoration Comedy rewards antagonist, immodesty, profanity, and abuse of the clergy (Collier) - theater should show reformation of manners, passion in moderation, instruction for a virtuous life, and nobility (Dennis) - all leads to the creation of the tragic comedy |
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Sentiment |
- had a positive connotation before the era of Middle Class Drama - feelings = knowledge - experienced through spectatorship - ex) "The London Merchant" |
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The Enlightenment |
- 18th century philosophical movement centered in France - beginning of European Industrial Revolution - stressed authority of reason - middle class demanded form of art - questioning of authority and revolutions - rise of the melodrama - enhancement of performance and theater - blank slate argument |
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Fête Gallante |
- a courtship party - French category of paintings featuring elite gathering outdoor, park settings - setting of "The Dispute" - enhanced aesthetics of spectatorship |
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Denis Diderot |
- argues for a "serious drama" with resources drawn from both comedy and tragedy - simple plots - emphasis on tableaux rather than special effects - wrote "The Paradox of Acting" on mechanism (exactly replicated scenes and acting) - idealized David Garrick
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Drame Bourgeois |
- tableaux - painting-like scene - "Kodak moment" - movement away from spectacular effects - written for and about the middle class - based on Diderot's theories |
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David Garrick |
- Enlglish actor, playwright, and producer in 18th century - idealized as best actor by Diderot - played Richard III - ability to create many facial expressions that portrayed a great range of emotions |
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Providential Melodrama |
- met public taste if spectacle, music, and easy plots - timeless, universal setting - God ensures a happy ending and a return to a Utopian paradise - glorification of natural innocence and virtue
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Pixérécourt |
- actor and playwright of Melodramas in early 18th century - wrote "The Dog of Montargis" - his plays were adapted and translated across Europe - wrote providential melodramas and well-made plays |
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"Imagining a Nation" |
- ant-British movement post-American Revolution in Jacksonian America - settlers lacked a history - "imagined political community both limited and sovereign" (Anderson) - "imagined fellowship that undergirds nationalism has to be invented and continuously reaffirmed" (Zarrilli) |
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Edwin Forrest |
- most celebrated American actor in Jacksonian America - working class man - strong body/physical intensity - played Spartacus, Metamora, and Macbeth |
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Astor Place Riot |
- Forrest's fans protested British actor, Macready, when he showed up to play Macbeth - 25 citizens killed by the police - soldiers open fired in New York City |
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Playing Indian |
- noble savage vs. red devil characters - settlers sought to identify with Native American culture but rejected "savagery" - Forrest played role of Metamora - Indian Removal Act |
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"The London Merchant" |
- George Lillo - 1730 - 18th century Middle Class Drama - Millwood (prostitute), Thorowgood (merchant), Barnwell (apprentice), Lucy (Millwood's servant) |
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"The Dispute" |
- Pierre de Marivaux - 1744 - 18th century Enlightenment France - Églé, Azor, Adine, Mesrine, Prince, Hermianne, Mesrou, Carisse |
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"Rules for Actors" |
- Goethe - 1803 |
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"Conversations on the Natural Son" & "The Paradox of Acting" |
- Diderot - late 18th century |
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"The Dog of Montargis" |
- Pixerecourt - 1814 - early 19th century Melodrama - Montdidier (murdered knight), Macaire (murderer and rival), Dragon (dog), Florio (mute), Lucille |
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"Metamora, or, the Last of the Wampanoags" |
- John Stone - 1829 - Jacksonian America, new American theater of 19th century - Nahmeokee (Metamora's wife), Lord Fitzarnold, Errington (chief of council), Walter (oprhan), (Oceana) |
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"Woyzeck" |
- Georg Büchner - 1836 - 19th century Romanticism - Marie, Adres (friend) |
