Quiz 1

Question 1

18C

Answer 1

• 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

Question 2

The author of The barber of Seville and The marriage of Figaro

Answer 2

Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais

Question 3

1815 Congress of Vienna

Answer 3

dominated by Metternich & Tallyrand

Question 4

Age of Enlightment

Answer 4

French philosophers, Voltaire, Diderot
Crumbling of class Barriers

Question 5

Age of Reason

Answer 5

Influnece of science and Rationalism

Skepticism about religion

Question 6

Age of Gentility

Answer 6

good manners, politeness, refined tastes

Question 7

Diderot’s

Answer 7

Encyclopedie

Question 8

Influence of the Bourgeoisie(Middle Class)

Answer 8

• Artistic blandness
• Sentimentalizing
• moralizing
• money vs aristocratic bloodline(Family)
• Large theatre

Question 9

The arts in the 18 C ; (1)

Answer 9

Painting, architecture & decorative arts

Baroque evolved in to Rococo

Question 10

The arts in the 18 C ; (2)

Answer 10

Literature

• Essays
• Rise of the novel

Question 11

The arts in the 18 C ; (3)

Answer 11

theatre

• dominance of opera
• drama replacing comedy and tragedy
• Serious drama with happy ending

Question 12

18C Countries; Italy(and vienna)

Answer 12

continuing leadership in scene design & opera

Question 13

18C Countries; France

Answer 13

leftover 17C cultural prestige; Opera comique

Question 14

18C Countries; England

Answer 14

Age of great actors

Question 15

18C Countries; Spain

Answer 15

imitating 17C French neoclassicim

Question 16

18C Countries; German lands

Answer 16

sudden awakening to theatre

Question 17

18C Countries; Russia & Scandinavia

Answer 17

strong French influences; Gradual awakening to theatre

Question 18

18C Countries; Low Countries

Answer 18

prosperous but unexciting; influences from france, England & Italy

Question 19

18C France

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Diderot

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Rousseau

Answer 21

romanticism & natural man & noble savage

Question 22

18C French forerunners paved

Answer 22

the way to a 19C sensibility

Question 23

Aesthetic movements in 19C; 1800s-1840s

Answer 23

Melodrama
Vaudevilles
Romanticism

Question 24

Aesthetic movements in 19C; 1840s - 1880s

Answer 24

Pieces Bien Faites
Pieces a These
Realism

Question 25

Aesthetic movements in 19C; 1880s - 1900s

Answer 25

Naturalism Symbolism & Decadence Boulevard Comedy Neo-Romanticism

Question 26

theatrical reforms pioneered by

Answer 26

Carolina Neuber

Question 27

Gotthold Lessing

Answer 27

Hamburg Dramaturgie and plays

Question 28

August Wilhelm Schelegel

Answer 28

translated 17 Shakespeare plays into German

Question 29

1770s German

Answer 29

Sturm and Drang(=Storm and Stress)

Question 30

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in 1775

Answer 30

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

Question 31

Weimar Court theatre became a professional operation with Goethe as

Answer 31

" Artistic Director of the Theatre, with unrestricted powers"

Question 32

German speaking lands

Answer 32

- 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

Question 33

A woman begin the miracle

Answer 33

Carolina Neuber

Question 34

Carolina Neuber

Answer 34

- 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

Question 35

World's first dramaturg

Answer 35

Gotthold Lessing

Question 36

Gotthold Lessing published

Answer 36

Hamburgische dramaturgie | ; for Hamburg national theatre

Question 37

Johann Elias Schlegel

Answer 37

Playwright who appreciated Shakespeare

Question 38

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Answer 38

Set designer, painter, architech

Question 39

August Wilhelm Schlegel

Answer 39

Writer and Philosopher

Question 40

Sturm and Drang(=Storm and Stress) is

Answer 40

German Literary movement of the 1770s

Question 41

Sturm and Drang(=Storm and Stress)

Answer 41

- revolution in France - Melodramas - Novels - Revival of Interest

Question 42

German youth Revoluted against

Answer 42

Ideas & Values of Reason

Question 43

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

Question 44

Young German writers of the 1770s

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Professed Interest in Volk, who lived in Nature

Question 45

Goethe's 1st Sturm & Drang

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Goetz von Berlichkoen | - poesthetic hands

Question 46

Goethe's novel best seller

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"The sorrow of Young Werther" | - called "Werther Fever"

Question 47

Weltschmerz

Answer 47

common among young people in love intense emotion

Question 48

F. M. V. Klinger

Answer 48

"Emotion is everything"

Question 49

Romanticism

Answer 49

Feeling, emotion, sensitivity, imagination