Quiz 7 Flashcards
author of 400 plays & Libretti
Eugene Scribe
Eugene Scribe’s first success
Another Night in the National Guard(1815)
author of The Glass of Water(1840)
Eugene Scribe
Piece Bien Faite means
Well made play
Well made play
Peripeteia(peripety)
Scene a faire(obligatory scene)
Quiproquo
denouement
Vaudevill
Comedie-vaudeville
opera comique
1844-70s actor-manager
Adolphe Lemoine Montigny
Montigny wrote
vaudevilles
Montigny introduced
box sets & realistic staging
technical innovations, including box sets brought greater realism to staging Scribe’s plays produced most of Augier’s plays
An actress did Comedie-Francaise and American tour
Rachel
Second empire Napoleon III did
strict censorship and prosperity
Baron Haussmann did
demolite the Boulevard du Temple and Its theatres
Le Boulevard or Le theatre du Boulevard came to mean
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.
Realism in 10th century French theatre
Social problem plays
Piece a these means
social problem play
Piece a these was about
fallen woman
illegitimate son/daughters
gambling debts/money problems
Alexandre Duman Files wrote
Camille
=Lady of the Camelias
= La Traviata
Emile Augier wrote
Olympe’s Marriage
Johann Strauss did
compose 500+ waltzes and dance music
17 operettas
Ibsen was influenced by
Eugene Scribe
Eugine Scribe wrote mostly
Comedies Vaudevilles for Boulevard Theatres
Eugene Scribe was popular for
Manipulate plots for surprise & suspense from the two great play of Beaumar Chais
Eugene Scribe developed formula
piece bien Faite(well made play)
Eugene Scribe understood
public taste for plays
