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23 Cards in this Set
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Age of Enlightenment
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Otherwise known as the eighteenth century
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The Social Contract
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In this document, Rousseau argued that government exists because of an agreement among the people governed - not between ruler and subjects
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Enlightened despots
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They rejected the concept of "divine right"
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Drame
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A new form which was defined as any serious play that did not fit the neoclassical definition of tragedy
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Denis Diderot
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He advocated the formation of a new genre: drame bourgeois
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Ballad opera
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This was a parody of Italian opera
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Comic opera
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Consisted of pantomime-like entertainment
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Sentimental comedy
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Reaffirms middle-class morality: the virtuous are rewarded and the wicked punished
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Comedia larmoyante
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This means "tearful comedy" because it was meant to bring tears to the audience's eyes
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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He wrote The School for Scandal
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Beaumarchais
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He wrote The Barber of Seville
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"Storm and Stress"
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This movement rejected dramatic rules
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Goldoni and Gozzi
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They struggled over which direction commedia dell'arte should take
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Patents
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These resulted in Davenant and Killigrew monopolizing London theater
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Covent Garden Theatre
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This theater opened with a revival production of The Way of the World
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Lewis Hallam Jr.
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He revived theater in New York after the American Revolution
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Chestnut Street Theater
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The Philadelphia Company constructed this theater in 1794
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Chiaroscuro
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This technique emphasized the contrast between light and shadow in painting
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Local color
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This referred to the inclusion of places audience members would recognize from their own community
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Angle perspective
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A convention that uses several vanishing points rather than the single vanishing point
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Predominant 18th century acting style
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This was based on oratorical skill
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Garrick and Goethe
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These are the founders of modern stage direction
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Goethe
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This individual wrote Faust
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