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Quiz 7 Flashcards

1
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author of 400 plays & Libretti

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Eugene Scribe

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2
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Eugene Scribe’s first success

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Another Night in the National Guard(1815)

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3
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author of The Glass of Water(1840)

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Eugene Scribe

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4
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Piece Bien Faite means

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Well made play

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5
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Well made play

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Peripeteia(peripety)
Scene a faire(obligatory scene)
Quiproquo
denouement

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6
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Vaudevill

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Comedie-vaudeville

opera comique

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7
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1844-70s actor-manager

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Adolphe Lemoine Montigny

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8
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Montigny wrote

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vaudevilles

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9
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Montigny introduced

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box sets & realistic staging
technical innovations, including box sets brought greater realism to staging Scribe’s plays produced most of Augier’s plays

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10
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An actress did Comedie-Francaise and American tour

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Rachel

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11
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Second empire Napoleon III did

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strict censorship and prosperity

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12
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Baron Haussmann did

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demolite the Boulevard du Temple and Its theatres

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Le Boulevard or Le theatre du Boulevard came to mean

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popular commercial theatre aimed at the middle class, mostly light comic forms but also serious works by playwrights who could not get accepted at the Comedie -Francaise or other subsidized theatre with plays that reflected conventional morality in well-made form on the most popular topics: money, love, marriage, adultery.

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14
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Realism in 10th century French theatre

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Social problem plays

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15
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Piece a these means

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social problem play

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16
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Piece a these was about

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fallen woman
illegitimate son/daughters
gambling debts/money problems

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17
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Alexandre Duman Files wrote

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Camille
=Lady of the Camelias
= La Traviata

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18
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Emile Augier wrote

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Olympe’s Marriage

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19
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Johann Strauss did

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compose 500+ waltzes and dance music

17 operettas

20
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Ibsen was influenced by

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Eugene Scribe

21
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Eugine Scribe wrote mostly

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Comedies Vaudevilles for Boulevard Theatres

22
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Eugene Scribe was popular for

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Manipulate plots for surprise & suspense from the two great play of Beaumar Chais

23
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Eugene Scribe developed formula

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piece bien Faite(well made play)

24
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Eugene Scribe understood

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public taste for plays

25
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Eugene used

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Secret known to audience but not characters, mounting suspense, alternating peripeteia, for Hero & Villain, scene a faire, ,qui pro quo, and satisfying denouement
Secret revealed in climactic scene

26
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Eugene’s plays have

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pattern of intensifying suspense
alternate ups & downs of hero & antagonist
happy ending

27
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Eugene’s characters

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no complexive or memorable

28
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1st important french director of realism

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Adolphe Montigny

29
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Adolphe Montigny used

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Real furnitures

30
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changes in cultural climate 1848

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uprising & revolution in Europe

31
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1838-1858 Rachel’s

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natural acting as the dominant influence

32
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A Female leads in all the neo classical plays

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Rachel

33
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Rachel’s acting

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Natural acting
purity of diction
appealing stage presence

34
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1855 Rachel did

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American tour

35
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1852-1870

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Second Empire

36
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Dominant aesthetic or mid 19c

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realism

37
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Bourgois taste brought to

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bear on literal depictions of middle class life

38
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Second Empire wanted

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Bourgeois Audience

39
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Theatre life the gymnaise and the gaite

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opened

40
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Boulevard”minor” theatre became

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popular

41
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Haussmann

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modernize unsanitary paris

42
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Realism in France

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well made plays
social problem plays
Boulevard Comedies & Farces

43
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Second Empire commercial theatre

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Middle class property
money & morality
44
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Le Demi-Monde

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Half way into high society

45
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A Demi Mondaine means

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A kept woman
socialize with male
never risk coming into contact with respectable woman

history of theatre: 19c (8 decks)

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