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What caused the Restoration to come about?
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Charles II restored to the throne
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What is the Commonwealth?
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When England was ruled as a republic after Charles I was beheaded. No official theatre for 18 years, therefore actors fled to other countries.
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Who were Thomas Killigrew and William Davenant?
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Killigrew was an English dramatist and theatre manager. Davenant was an English poet and playwright. They both spanned ages before the Restoration and during it.
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Who was Aphra Behn?
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1640-1688: first professional paid female playwright, was in debt and debtors prison a lot.
“The Forced Marriage”, “The Rover”. |
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What is a heroic drama?
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Popular during Restoration era, John Dryden’s “The Indian Emperour”, Roger Boyle’s “The Black Prince”
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What is a comedy of manners?
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Ben Johnson’s comedy of humours, “She Stoops to Conquer” by Oliver Goldsmith, Sheridan’s “The Rivals” and “The School for Scoundrels”.
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What was the Collier Controversy?
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Collier writes pamphlets during the Restoration era criticizing the choice of playwrights to be doing raunchy or plays with inappropriate subject matter. He believes the venue is just as influential as the theatre being performed itself therefore it should always be classy and moral. The Commonwealth era was so strict and mainly Puritan dominated and so many playwrights wanted to go “full out” in subject matter during the Restoration however Collier called for playwrights to keep it classy.
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What did Oliver Goldsmith have to say about sentimental comedy vs. laughing comedy?
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Oliver Goldsmith did not like sentimental comedy because he thought that characters in a sentimental comedy did not show true characters and were very vapid. The audience is encouraged to applaud the characters faults and consider all the characters good: boring. It is argued by Goldsmith to be the easiest to write. Laughing comedy seems to Goldsmith to be the more true form of how comedy should be handled, at it’s true laughing form, without tears.
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What were Ballad Operas?
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Operettas that were satire of the time, usually done with original music however imitated popular things of the time.
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What was a drame bourgeois?
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Type of drama that emerged as a counter reaction against classicism. Rejecting noble society and aristocratic mores, bourgeois drama upheld the interests of a new hero—the “honest bourgeois,” the idealized “natural man”—and affirmed its faith in the triumph of reason and virtue. In its early period, bourgeois drama was a manifestation of the struggle for realism in drama. The greatest dramatists and theorists of the genre were G. Lillo, D. Diderot, and G. E. Lessing.
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