Genres Flashcards
Comedy of Humors
Yellow bile - angry
Blood - lusty
Black Bile - sad, love sick
Phlegm - cold
Comedy of Intrigue
Capa y espada
British Neoclassism
French Neoclassicism but with no unity of action and an extended unity of place
French Neoclassicism
3 unities No mixing of genres Verisimilitude Moral lesson Five acts
Heroic tragedy
Themes of love and honor Idealistic lovers Martial background Contrived happy ending Massive amounts of ranting delivered in rhymed couplets
Comedy of Manners
Characters follow or break a social custom. Most events based on misunderstanding or gossip. Lots of affairs.
Satire
Holding something up for ridicule
Sentimental Comedy
Restoration Comedy that reaffirms middle class morality and satirizes social conventions
Weeping Comedy
Escape feels impossible for the protagonist and causes concern for them by the audience
Laughing Comedy
True satire using intellect and wit
Domestic Tragedy
Ordinary people facing ordinary problems
Ballad Opera
Satirical political situations
Satirical Burlesque
Non musical form of valid opera
Sturm and Drang
Mixed genres
Violence on stage
rebellion against sentimental comedy
Bourgeois Tragedy
Middle class tragedy