HISTORICAL TRENDS Flashcards
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ANCIENT GREECE
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- tragedy, comedy, melodrama, farce, tragicomedy, etc.
- Aristotle (The Poetics), classical unities, formula for theatre
- use of masks, costumes
- Epidaurus, Thr. of Dionysus, Thr. at Ephesus
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ROME
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- Ostia (Thr) = not a grecian amphitheatre
- Thr at Orange=developing architecture, vows
- the fall=less organized, more traveling troupes, mimes, comedia
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MIDDLE AGES
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- Religion adopts theatre to teach due to illiteracy
- Pageant wagons are accessible
- morality and mystery plays
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EUROPEAN RENAISSANCE
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- Italy, France, Spain 17th and 18th c.
- neoclassicism
- Italion Ren (persective and proscenium)
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France
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Palais Royal 1641, spectacle, comédie français
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Elizabethan England
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Shakespeare, the Globe
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Restoration
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17th c. England
- Charlie 2 restored ot monarchy
- comedy of manners
- women play women
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19th century: Escapism
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- escape from reality
- minstrels, burlesque, vaudeville, spectacle, melodrama, escapist theatre, romanticism
- stock characters
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Revolutions
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- Industrial
- Demographic (rise of middle class)
- Technology (electricity)
- Transportation
- Communication
- Suffrage
- Urbanization
- Intellectual (humanism)
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Well Made Play
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founded by Eugene Scribe
- crafted for effect
- plot focused action
- crisis, drama
- dramatic irony
- reversal/forewords
- became ostracized for predictability
