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Theater history 18th
Theater history 18th century
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Drame | any serious play that didn’t fit the neoclassical definition of tragedy |
| Ballad opera (opera comique) | 18th century, english burlesqued opera: no recitative, songs were set to popular tunes, characters drawn from lower classes ex: The Beggar's Opera |
| Sentimental comedy (comedie larmoyante) | 18th century england, comedy reaffirmed middle-class morality; virtuous rewarded, wicked punished |
| Middle class (Bourgeois) tragedy | tragedy-heros from middle class, dramitizations of middle class morality; sentimental; melodramatic |
| Drury Lane & Covent Gardens | only two theaters in london to present legitimet drama |
| Chiaroscuro | in painting, emphasis of contrasts between light and shadow, assosiated with Giambattista Piranesi and others |
| Licensing act of 1737 | Restricted plays to two patent holding theaters in london, all scripts must be approved by the lord chamberlain. |
| Boulevard theaters | Theaters located in 18th century france, along the buolevard du temple in paris, catering to popular tastes. |
| Multiple point (angled) perspective | use of 2 or more vanishing points, frequently at sides of a painted design. Ferdinando Bibiena introduced it in the early 18th century |
| Bombastic/Declamatory | Standard patterns of stage movement, emphasis on oritoracle skills, often address lines to audience. |
| Laughing comedy | comedy where people laugh, coined by Oliver Goldsmith |
| Baroque | exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur |
| Hanswurst | a pantomimic character in comic performances on the German stage; a great favourite at one time with the vulgar; distinguished for his awkwardness, his gluttonous appetite, and his rotundity. |
| The Enlightenment | advocated Reason as the primary basis of authority |
| Sturm and Drang | emphasized the volatile emotional life of the individual, 1767-85 |
| Scenic design in this period | Influenced by italy, most had wing and shutter settings, painted perspective and used the pole and chariot system. Ground rows were invetned, chiaroscuro used |
| Acting in this period | bombastic acting |
| Emergence of the director | came about because playwrights and actors had other primary concerns |
| Denis Diderot | 18th century famous French Philosopher who edited Encyclopedia, came up with the genre Drame Burgois, wanted greater realism, playwright |
| Oliver Goldsmith | 18th century English Playwright, Attacked sentimental comedy calling instead for laughing comedy |
| Charles Macklin | 18th century English Actor, Natural style of performing, also playwright |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan | 18th century English Playwright, wrote sentimental comedy, viewed as a link between two periods |
| Beaumarchais | 18th century french Playwright, his works reflect the explosive political, economic, and social issues of the time, ex: the marrage of figaro |
| Carlo Goldoni | 18th century italian playwirhgt, wanted plays to be more realistic and more lifelike |
| Dumesnil | 18th century french stage actress, better actor than singer, worked in Comédie-Française, rivals with Clarion |
| Clarion | 18th century french actress, in the Comédie Italienne, then to the Comédie-Française, rivals with Dumesnil |
| David Garrick | 18th century english actor, producer and playwright, managed Druery Lane, more realistic acting, reformed stageing of plays, became like a director |
| The Bibienas | 18th century scenic designers, came up with multiple point perspective, leaders in scenic design |
| George Lillo | 18th century playwright, invented domestic tragedy, ex. the london merchent |
| Johann von Goethe | 18th century German Director, playwright, critic, philosopher, minister of court of Wimar, and efficient leader, made intense rehersal process, and regulations for acting behavior |
| Caroline Neuber | 18th century German actress-manager who was influential in the development of modern German theatre. impruved actors social standing |
| Carlo Gozzi | 18th century Italian PLaywright, wanted theater to be more fantastical |
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