Quiz 5 Flashcards

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Second Empire in 1852-1870

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Louis Napoleon and Eugenie

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2
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Belle Epoque in 1900-1912

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Includes fin de siecle

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3
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Eugene Labiche

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An Italian Straw Hat

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4
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Jacques Offenbach

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Orpheus in the Underwood(1858) - Libretto by Hector

Tales of Hoffman(1881)

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5
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Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy

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Wrote Carmen

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6
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Paris Opera

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Designed by Charles Garnier

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7
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Les demi-mondaines of the 1850s evolved into

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les grandes horizontales of the 1890s

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8
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Caf’conc’

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Cafe-concerts

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9
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Cabarets

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Chat Noir(1881), Le Mirliton(1885), Le Moulin Rouge(1889)

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10
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Georges Feydeau’s first produced play in Paris

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Amour et piano

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11
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Georges Feydeau

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Hotel Paradiso

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12
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Georges Feydeau’s master piece

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The Girl from Maxim’s

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13
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Symbolism early influences

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Charles Baudelaire - Les Fleurs du mal(1857)

Richard Wager - Leitmotivs

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14
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Symbolism

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Art Nouveau design(a.k.a - stil moderne)

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15
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Symbolist poets

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Charles Baudelaire - Les Fleurs Du Mal(1857)

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16
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1890-92 Theatre d’Art

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Paul Fort

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1892-99, 1912-1929 Theatre de I’Oeuvre

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Aurelien Lugne-Poe

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18
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Maurice Maeterlinck (Belgian)

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Pelleas et Melisande(1892)

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19
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Second Empire

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Middle Class prosperity

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20
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Second Empire

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Middle Class prosperity

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21
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Eugene Labiche

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17 plays, mostly Vaudevilles

22
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Greatest author of French Farce Before Feydeau

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Eugene Labiche

23
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Jacques Offenbach

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King of French Operetta

24
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Victorien Sardou did

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Apply Piece Bien Faite formula to Piece a these

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Victorien Sardou wrote
Boulevard Comedies and Spectacles
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Victorien Sardou employed
Scribe's Formula
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Boulevard Comedy(Boulevard De Temple) was
Commercial
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Boulevard Comedy was
Legitimate theatre on the Boulevards was Largely Frivolous Fare
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By the 1890s, Bedroom Farce became
The Dominant Form of Light, escapist Entertainment
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Boulevard Comedy was more light weight than
Regular comedy
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The master of French Bedroom Farce
Georges Feydeau
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Paris Opera had
Grand Staircase
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Le Demi-Monde
A half way into high society
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Cafe Concer
Entertainment venue
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Le Chat Noir
Opened a Cabaret
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Symbolism uses
Symbols/Symbolic technique | - An image, sign, prop, etc
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Symbolist
a specific literary and artistic movement using the symbolic devices not to communicate ideas/concepts but to evoke emotions and associations
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Symbolist reacting against
The cold clinical naturalist drama, brought a retonic to subjectivity and the ineffable
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Naturalist and symolist in 1890
Co-existed
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1897 the revival of feelings brought a one play
neo-romantic movement
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Vaudelaire
poems
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Wagner
Synthesis of the arts | re----- opera as music drama
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Art Nouveau
Visually painting/decorative arts
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Symbolism; subjective based in
emotion and impressions as opposed to reason and objectivity
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Symbolism; every sensation and feeling we experience is
Unique
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Symbolism in theatre emphasis on
Poetry and lyricism
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Symbolism in theatre suggestion
rather than literal depiction
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Symbolism in theatre evocation of
estas Dam(Soul States)
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Symbolism in theatre simplication of
Effects
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Symbolism in theatre
Atmosphere, mystery, the indefinite and unexplained