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Quiz 1 Flashcards

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18C

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  • Age of Reason, age of enlightenment, age gentility age of Rococo, Age of absolutism
  • Influence of Bourgeoisie=sentimentality, moralizing, artistic blandness
  • Baroque into Rococo(Rocailles & coquilles)
  • Tragedy & Comedy gave way to le drame
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The author of The barber of Seville and The marriage of Figaro

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Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais

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1815 Congress of Vienna

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dominated by Metternich & Tallyrand

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Age of Enlightment

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French philosophers, Voltaire, Diderot
Crumbling of class Barriers
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Age of Reason

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Influnece of science and Rationalism

Skepticism about religion

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Age of Gentility

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good manners, politeness, refined tastes

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Diderot’s

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Encyclopedie

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Influence of the Bourgeoisie(Middle Class)

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  • Artistic blandness
  • Sentimentalizing
  • moralizing
  • money vs aristocratic bloodline(Family)
  • Large theatre
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The arts in the 18 C ; (1)

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Painting, architecture & decorative arts

Baroque evolved in to Rococo

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The arts in the 18 C ; (2)

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Literature

  • Essays
  • Rise of the novel
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The arts in the 18 C ; (3)

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theatre

  • dominance of opera
  • drama replacing comedy and tragedy
  • Serious drama with happy ending
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18C Countries; Italy(and vienna)

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continuing leadership in scene design & opera

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18C Countries; France

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leftover 17C cultural prestige; Opera comique

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18C Countries; England

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Age of great actors

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18C Countries; Spain

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imitating 17C French neoclassicim

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18C Countries; German lands

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sudden awakening to theatre

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18C Countries; Russia & Scandinavia

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strong French influences; Gradual awakening to theatre

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18C Countries; Low Countries

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prosperous but unexciting; influences from france, England & Italy

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18C France

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had achieved cultural pre-eminence in Europe
Political influence declined after the death
french was the language of international diplomacy

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Diderot

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wrote plays and dramatic theory
calling for Le Drame
Encyclopedia; Architecture & stage machinery

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Rousseau

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romanticism & natural man & noble savage

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18C French forerunners paved

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the way to a 19C sensibility

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Aesthetic movements in 19C; 1800s-1840s

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Melodrama
Vaudevilles
Romanticism

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Aesthetic movements in 19C; 1840s - 1880s

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Pieces Bien Faites
Pieces a These
Realism

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Aesthetic movements in 19C; 1880s - 1900s

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Naturalism
Symbolism & Decadence
Boulevard Comedy
Neo-Romanticism

26
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theatrical reforms pioneered by

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Carolina Neuber

27
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Gotthold Lessing

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Hamburg Dramaturgie and plays

28
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August Wilhelm Schelegel

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translated 17 Shakespeare plays into German

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1770s German

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Sturm and Drang(=Storm and Stress)

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in 1775

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settled in Duchy of Saxe-Weimar at invitation of Grand Duke Karl August

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Weimar Court theatre became a professional operation with Goethe as

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” Artistic Director of the Theatre, with unrestricted powers”

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German speaking lands

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  • Cultural Development Lagged behind the rest of Europe
    • no unified culture because the land was divided small independent political
  • Medieval entertainment forms were still prevalent as late as the 18C
  • Strolling players
  • Jesuit scool
  • Protestant school
  • Italian Opera
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A woman begin the miracle

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Carolina Neuber

34
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Carolina Neuber

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  • trailblazing actress and touring company manager who devoted herself
  • supported by gottsched
  • died in poverty, thinking she had failed mission to upgrade
  • effort with touring troupe performing
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World’s first dramaturg

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Gotthold Lessing

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Gotthold Lessing published

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Hamburgische dramaturgie

; for Hamburg national theatre

37
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Johann Elias Schlegel

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Playwright who appreciated Shakespeare

38
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Karl Friedrich Schinkel

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Set designer, painter, architech

39
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August Wilhelm Schlegel

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Writer and Philosopher

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Sturm and Drang(=Storm and Stress) is

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German Literary movement of the 1770s

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Sturm and Drang(=Storm and Stress)

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  • revolution in France
  • Melodramas
  • Novels
  • Revival of Interest
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German youth Revoluted against

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Ideas & Values of Reason

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Sturm and Drang(=Storm and Stress) about

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  • Ideals of Freedom
  • Cynical about chances for change
  • Glorified feelings over reason
  • Rebelled against arbitrary restriction
  • Preferred Shakespeare over Racine
    • Freedom of form
    • Mix of genres
  • Interest in Medieval Heritage
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Young German writers of the 1770s

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Professed Interest in Volk, who lived in Nature

45
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Goethe’s 1st Sturm & Drang

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Goetz von Berlichkoen

- poesthetic hands

46
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Goethe’s novel best seller

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“The sorrow of Young Werther”

- called “Werther Fever”

47
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Weltschmerz

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common among young
people in love
intense emotion

48
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F. M. V. Klinger

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“Emotion is everything”

49
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Romanticism

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Feeling, emotion, sensitivity, imagination

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