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Quiz 6 Flashcards

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Russia tied to

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Slavic Pagan Rituals & Folk Customs

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Slavic Pagan Rituals and Folk customs are

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Singing games
Animal costumes for mumming
Folk wedding rituals

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Skomorokhi(900s -1600s)

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acrobatics/trained bears/puppetry/entertainers
was a professional wandering multi-talented entertainer
might dance, play flute or gusli

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Skomorokhi puppeteers

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stood inside a leather bag with the puppet stage on his head

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Russian theatre got a late start
western Europe had already been through medieval, renaissance& neoclassical drama when ______asked for some theatre in 1692

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Tsar Alexei

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_______ Lutheran minister in the german suburb

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Father Gregory

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______Theatre flourished: Count Nikolai Sheremetyev & Zhemchugova

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Serf

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Adapted Hamlet=first Shakespear in Russian

appointed director of the Russian National drama Theatre

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Alexander Sumarokov

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1672 Russia

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1st play performed in Russia
- the beginning of Russia theater
At the court of Tsar Alexei
staged by Johan Greggory
the bible story
performances repeated for 10 hours
Tsar was the only audience for the 1st performance October 1672
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Peter the great

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led Barbaric Russia to accept
western standards of Civilization
some amateurish theatre in Moscow for small audiences

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Empress Anna

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revived theatre after five years of neglect following death of peter great
germanic tastes

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Empress Elizabeth

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signed decree in 1756 to establish a Russian national drama theatre

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13
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rise French influence in Russia

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many germans conducted trade with 18th C Russia
Italian architects
Russian nobility spoke French

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Catherine the great

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Corresponded with French Enlightenment

Encouraged theatre philosophers

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Alexander Sumarokov(director)

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1st Russian aristocrat to choose a literary career
wrote the first Russian neoclassical play: Khoren(1744)
adapted Shakespeare
ran the first Russian professional theatre company with Volkov

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Fyodor Volkov (Artistic director)

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Merchant’s son wrote did amateur theatre in Yaroslavi in 1750
invited to St. Petersburg and saw Sumarokov’s cadet academy theatricals
1756 Decree establishing permanent company: SumaroKov as director, Volkov and asst. & actor

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Count Nikolai Sheremetyev

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fell in love with one of his serf girls who performed under the name Zhemchugova(stage name=pearl)

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Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin(1745-1792) wrote

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The Minor(Nedorosl) - (1782)
- the earliest Russian play still in the repertorie
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19
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Count Sheremetyev built her

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a Palace in Moscow

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20
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Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin(1745-1792)

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1st playwright
wrote comedies influenced by Moliere
and showing the backwardness of Russian life
The Brigadier(1766)

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21
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Maly theatre(1824) for____________

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Spoken Drama, Moscow

22
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1825, ______ for opera & ballet(burned 1853, rebuilt 1856)

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Bolshoi theatre

- Kamenny theatre(Stone theatrE) became imperial Bolshoi Kamenny theatre

23
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Heritage theatre

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attached to Winter palace in St. Petersburg

- built for Catherine the great

24
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Alexander Griboyedov

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wrote the 1st true masterpiece
Gore ot uma(Wit works woe)(1823)
- "Sorrow come out of intelligent"
- could not get published or produced
wrote essays
translated Moliere
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Gore ot Uma

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comic masterpiece
contributed many aphorisms
to the Russian language
satirical yet realistic portrayal of Russian Society
 a cut version was published
26
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Russian Romanticism

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Short lived in Russia
was more evident in painting & poetry than in Drama
why; Russians are genetically more comfortable with realism
Russian sentiments could be dangerous under a repressive Tsar

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two great Russian Writedr of Romantic drama

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Mikhail Lermontov

Alexander Sergeivich Pushkin

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Mikhail Lermontov

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romantic poet, playwright, novelist
A hero of our time(semi-auotobiographical novel)
Masquerade(1835)

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Masquerade(1835)

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his great romantic drama

influenced by Shakespeare & schiller

30
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Alexander Sergeivich Pushkin

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all time greatest Russian writer
romantic poet, short story writer & playwright
Boris Godunov(1825)
31
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Das Junge Deutschland 1830s

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young Germany movement

32
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Georg Buchner(1813 - 1837)

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Woyzech(1837)

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Friedrich Hebbel(1813-1863)

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Maria Magdalena(1846)

34
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in Vienna before the great war, all aspects of life were

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theatricalized

- the city was a stage for illusions

35
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Vienna’s coffeehouses

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throughout the 19C A Viennese person’s regular coffeehouse served as a second home
- Newspapers in Dozens of languages-censored

36
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Vinenna theatre

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popular low comedy theatre
theatre opened in Schonbrunn palace in 1747
Hofburg theatre(Court theatre) opened in city center in 1741
the minuet was replaced by the waltz

37
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Hapsburgs

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ruled 645 years

38
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1815 Vienna

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Congress of Vienna; prominence of Metternich(1773 - 1859)

39
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Biedermeier era

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  • a term given in retrospect to the “good old days” of bourgeois comforts
    A Biedermeier family enjoys their middle class comforts
    best not to express political ideas
40
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1776 Hof-Burgtheater in Michaelerplatz designated

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a national theatre

41
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Franz Grillparzer(1791-1872)

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outstanding playwright
greatest dramatist gave up playwriting 
The golden Fleece(1822)(triology based on Medea legend)
- an ironic treatment
King ottocar's Rise and Fall(1824)
- was banned by censors for two years
42
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Volksstucke

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Viennese dialect theatre
most associated with Vienna
the magic flute by Mozart 
- the most famous one
Viennese dialect incorporates words from Czech, Hungarian...etc
43
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The False Virtuoso

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Popular theatre -> broad physical comedy + music

44
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Ferdinand Raimund(1790-1836)

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Raimund actor & playwright became the leading figure

- plays - mixed supernatural elements & everyday life in serious comedy

45
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Johann Nestroy (1801-1862)’s plays

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The Talisman(1840)
Einen Juz will er sich machen(1840)
- became Hello Dolly
Die Freiheit in Krahwinkel(1848)
- Freedom and speedy town
46
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Johann Nestroy (1801-1862)

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succeeded Raimund as leading
author & actor of Viennese dialect comedy
wrote comedies for himself to play opposite short

47
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1848 Vienna

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worker uprisings all over Europe

48
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1857 Decree to raze old city bastions and build

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Ringstrasse

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1869 First building completed on the Ringstrasse

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Vienna Opera

50
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1888 Burgtheater

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construction began in 1874

last building completed on the Ringstrasse

51
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Viennese operetta

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Johann Strauss II(1825-1899)
Die Fledermaus(1874)
Franz Lehar(1870-1948)
The Merry Widow(1905)

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