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Ritual drama Osiris, Egypt |
4,000 BC-1500 BC |
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Ritual landscape sites, England |
3500-2500 BC |
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Performance festivals, mesoamerica |
3000BC |
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Oral epic, gilgamesh, Sumeria |
2700 BC |
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Hopi Indian performances, North America |
1000 BC |
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Celtic rituals, bardic festivals, Europe |
1000 BCE |
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Homer, bardic performance, greece |
800 BC |
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Greek Tragedy |
534 BC |
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Egyptian civilization |
3150 BC |
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Civilization in Crete |
3800 BC |
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Phoenician alphabet |
3500 BC |
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Early Mayan people, mesoamerica |
2000-1000 BC |
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Shang Dynasty, China |
1600-1050 BC |
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Olmec peoples, mesoamerica |
1200 BC |
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Phoenician alphabet use in Greece |
850 |
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Olympic games, greece |
776 BC |
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Mahabharata, sanskrit drama, India |
500 BCE |
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Aristotle's Poetics |
330 BCE |
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Plato's The Republic |
373 BCE |
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Roman Drama |
204 BCE - 65 CE |
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Bharata writes natysastra, India |
200 BCE-200CE |
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catholic opposition to theatre, last theatre performance, roman empire |
533 CE |
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Peloponnesian wars |
434-404 BC |
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yamato period Japan |
250 -710 CE |
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Han Dynasty, China |
206-220 CE |
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ceasar augustis, emperor roman empire |
27-14 CE |
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Virgil's Aeneid |
319 CE |
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Western Roman empire falls |
486 CE |
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Euro Catholic drama |
925-1600 |
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japanese No theatre, zeami |
1363-1443 |
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birth of Mohammed |
570 |
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Tang Dynasty |
618-906 |
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Vikings |
790-1066 |
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Christian Crusades against muslims |
1099 |
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marco polo |
1254-1324 |
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Chaucer |
1343-1400 |
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Renaissance drama, europe |
1390 |
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Shakespeare |
1564-1616 |
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Moliere |
1622-1673 the miser 1668 |
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Spanish Catholic drama |
1550-1765 |
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li Yu's theory of theatre, china |
1677 |
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Renaissance Europe |
1400-1600 CE |
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Euro trafficking of african slaves |
1400 |
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ottomans capture constantinople |
1453 |
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Bible printing using metal type |
1455 |
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spanish inquisition |
1468 |
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Columbus in north america |
1492 |
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spanish colonization of Western hemisphere |
1493 |
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reformation, europe |
1500 |
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English in jamestown, VA |
1607 |
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Louis XIV, Sun King, France |
1643-1715 |
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Neolithic |
10,500 bc- 2,000 BC |
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Early Roman Emperor Constantine to Christianity |
312 BC |
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Adaption of Terence's plays by Hrotsvitha |
935-973 |
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Quem Quaritis (Early medieval easter trope) |
925 |
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Mystery or Cycle plays ex: second shepherds play, wakefield cycle |
1311 1375 |
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Hildegard von Bingen, morality play |
1098-1179 |
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Sophocles |
496-404 BCE |
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Horace's Art of Poetry, Rome |
19 BCE
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Greek Old Comedy aristophanes |
448 BCE |
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Greek new Comedy menander |
336 BCE |
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Hellenistic Age |
323 BCE-30BCE |
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Roman Comedy Plautus Terrence |
254-184 185-159 |
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No theatre |
1300-1600 |
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Bunraku |
1500's |
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Kabuki |
early 1600's |
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Euro Perspective scenery |
15th cent |
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Commedia Dell'arte |
Peak 1550-1650 |
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court spectacles: italy, england, france, spain |
1500-1649 |
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mechanized scenery |
1500-1649 |
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English puritan revolt |
1642 |
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Burbage |
famous shakespearean actor blah blah barf
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Shakespeare |
1564-1616 appeared on theatre scene in 1590 hamlet 1601 Tempest 1612 |
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Marlowe |
1564-1593 University Wit Dr. Faustus 1588 |
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Ben Johnson |
Volpone 1606 neoclassical principles |
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Lope de vega |
Fuente Ovejuna (1614) |
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Calderon |
Life is a dream 1636 |
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European Renaissance |
1500-1649 |
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Printed Bible King James Bible |
1456 1611 |
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Euro colonizing |
1400-1830
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Protestant Reformation |
1500's |
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Elizabeth I |
1558-1603 |
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Spanish Armada |
1588 |
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Holy Roman Empire |
1559-1806 |
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Thirty Years War |
1618-1948 |
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James I |
1603-1625 |
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Charles I beheaded |
1625-1642 1649 |
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English Civil War |
1642-1649 |
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English Restoration |
1660 |
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Theatre Patents |
1650-1720 |
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Neoclassical drama, France, England, |
1620 French Academy 1636 |
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English Actresses play women's roles |
1660 |
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Comedie Francaise |
1680 government supported french national theatre |
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Multiple Perspective Scenery |
18th cent |
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Macklin |
1699-1797 sympathetic portrayal of Shylock drury lane theatre |
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Racine |
1639-1699 Phaedra 1677 neoclassical ideal |
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Dryden |
All for Love 1677 restoration tragedy |
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Whycherley |
16409-1716 Comedy of Manners Country Wife 1675 |
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Aphra Behn |
1640-1689 restoration comedy of intrigue |
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Congreve |
1670-1729 Way of the world 1700 Restoration comedy (bridge to sentimental comedy) |
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Charles II |
1660-1685 spanish |
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Baroque |
began in 1600 in rome and spread exaggerated motion and clear detail |
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William III and Mary |
1689-1702 |
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John Locke |
1632-1704 father of classical liberalism knowledge is established by experiences. free individuals in a state of nature might form civil governments |
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Sentimental Drama , England France |
1688 Steele replace the wittiness and eroticism of resporation comedy with sentiment (Conscious lovers 1722) |
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Neoclassical Drama, Russia germany |
1721-1789 |
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Licensing act London |
1737 only 2 theatres were permitted (covent garden and Drury lane) England, 18th century, Lord Chamberlain censorship, only specific companies could get licenses to do theatre, Sentimental comedy okay because it’s instructive, a law until 1968. Result: not many playwrights/Shakespeare gets done a lot because it’s free, control of government over theatr |
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National Theatres, Germany |
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Kemble |
1775-1854 actor, historically accurate shakespeare |
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Garrick |
mid 18th cent English renowned for portrayal of sentimental roles |
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Clairon |
French 1723-1803 rivaled with Dumesnil who was naturally talented but Clairon worked hard and prepared. |
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Lessing |
1727-1781 Germany writer making living off pen. gained success from criticism Miss Sara Simpson (1755) HAMBURG DRAMATURGY non-neoclassical interpretation of Poetics urge writing of sentimental plays |
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Voltaire |
1694-1778 advocate religious freedom, freedom of expression plays mid 1700's |
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Diderot |
1713-1784 urged adoption of midde genre's between comedy and tragedy that would encompass sentimental notions of morality and domesticity comedies of tears and virtues and bourgeois family opposed classical french stage INtroduced FOURTH WALL |
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Goldsmith |
1730-1774 she stoops to conquer 1773 dislike sentimentalism but still bowed to most precepts like sentimental endings. |
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Sheridan |
1751-1816 exposes sentimentalism but still holds up morality School for Scandal (1777) |
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Marivaux |
1688-1763 injected feeling into love comedies heightened prose so less sentimental |
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Goldini |
1707-1793 made author have more authority in comedia Servant of Two Masters 1743 |
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Enlightenment |
1721-1789 Europe, 18th century. Kant, Descartes, logic, rationality, scientific method, obedience/free thinking, Voltaire, Diderot, Beaumarchais, middle class, (mantras), nationalism/colonialism, vs. Romanticism |
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War of Spanish Succession |
1701-1774 |
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Industrial Revolution |
1720-1840 |
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
Social Contract 1762 argued government exists bc of an agreement among the people governed |
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George I, II, III |
1714-1820 |
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American Revolution |
1776 |
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Louis XVI |
1774-1789 |
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French Revolution |
1789 |
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Bach |
1685-1750 |
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Handel |
1685-1759 |
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Mozart |
1756-1791 |
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Melodrama in US, Euro |
1800-1915 Stock Charachters, moral polarity, musical underscoring, grand speeched, simple episodic plotlin, spectacle, poetic justice |
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Romantic drama |
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Historical scenery and Costume |
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Orientalism |
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Beijing Opera |
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Touring stars |
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J.B. Booth |
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F Kemble |
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Schiller |
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Goethe |
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Gogol |
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Romanticism |
1790-1850 |
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European nationalism |
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Napoleaonic Wars |
1795-1815 |
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War of 1812 |
1812 |
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Railways, Steamboats |
1790-1850 |
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Indian removal act US |
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Beethoven |
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Chopin |
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Wagner |
Germany 19th Cent. Total artwork "gesam..." orchestra pit, romanticism |
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Minstrel shows |
19th-early 20th c., white performers made up as caricatured blacks (sometimes black performers, but also made up with burnt cork), Daddy Rice, “Jim Crow” dance, Tambo, Bones, and Mr. Interlocutor, Master Juba, variety show of song, dance, and skits, circulated stereotypical images of blacks, “genuine negroes,” but for white consumption, exploitation of black culture by whites |
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Theatre regulations act London |
1843 |
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Well-made play |
Scribe, French, 19th century, structure of exposition, inciting moment, rising action, climax, denouement, reveal, art form that relied on reversals, Delsarte method of acting, connecting to systematic or scientific methods of arriving at truth or reality, stepping stone to realism (A Doll’s House) |
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Macready |
1793-1873 actor |
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Scribe |
1791-1861 well-made play french |
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Queen Victoria |
1837-1901 |
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British Rule in india |
1858-1947 |
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Irish famine |
1845-1852 |
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Darwin |
mid-19th c., On the Origin of the Species, theories about animal evolutionbowdlerized as “social Darwinism” (he did not believe in this)– which givesexcuse for colonialism, nationalism, racism; theatre as a test case for solvingsociety’s ills |
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German Empire |
1871-1918
unification of Germany |
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Gilbert and Sullivan |
victorian era comic operas Pirates HMS Pinafore |
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Machiavelli's the Prince |
1513 |
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Neoclassical ideals |
Decorum and Verisimilitude Unities: time, place, action |
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British Commonwealth created Oliver Cromwell Lord Protector |
1649 1653-1658 |
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John Webster (Jacobean) |
1580-1630 Duchess of Malfi 1613 |
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Inigo Jones |
working 1619-1640 Court architect and designer. brought italian innovations (proscenium |
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Autos Sacramentales |
spanish morality plays |
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Cardinal Richelieu |
1620 rose in power Darth Vader of France, 17th c., actedlike the regent while one of the Louis XIII was growing up, started a bunch ofthe academies to consolidate in power of France. CONTEXT: theatricality of thepower, French Academy to solve Cid Controversy, Catholic power |
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Corneille |
1606-1684 Le Cid 1636 academe france said it sucked |
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Restoration Theatre |
closed theatres in 1642 opened in 1656 Wycherley's Country Wife 1675 Dryden All for Love 1677 Aphra Behn The Rover 1677 |
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Collier's Short View of the Immorality and Profaness of the english stage |
1698 England, 17th Century, 1) women don’t behave so inappropriately and shouldn’t do so onstage, 2) theatre is disrespectful to the clergy, 3) the language of wit is profane, 4) evil is rewarded. Restoration to Sentimentality, George Lillo (The London Merchant). Connects melodrama later on with moral polarity and poetic justice. |
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Female Wite |
Trotter, Pix, Manley late 1700's |
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Edwin Forrest Sarah Bernhardt |
1806-1872 1844-1923 touring actor/actress Europe USA |
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sturm and drang |
Germany, 18th century, pre-romanticism, Schiller and Goethe, no neoclassical rules—take that France, we love Shakespeare!!!, episodic, violence, emotionally wrought.
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