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18TH CENTURYtheatre (europe)
BACKGROUND- 18TH C.
Crash Course: Seven Years’ War
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Atlantic Slave Trade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnV_MTFEGIY&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=24
THE ARTS
DRAMA & OTHER THEATRICAL FORMS
Diderot develops a form called “drame” or drama
a form that deviates from “neoclassical” ideas
Bourgeois
Middle-class Tragedy
Middle-class Characters
Middle-class Morality - rewarding the the virtuous, punishing the wicked
Pitted good against evil
PLAYWRIGHTS
George Lillo - The London Merchant
Denis Diderot - playwright & theorist -Discourse on Dramatic Poetry, The Paradox of Acting, Encyclopedia
DIDEROT
THEORY of ACTING
MIDDLE CLASS
CONCEPT- 4th WALL
BALLAD OPERA
COMIC OPERA
english developments
BALLAD OPERA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KeACP1Id50
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VobEWeywEdEEntre Acte from The Beggar’s Opera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7sUGqnCi3IRoyal Shakespeare Company (1992)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuWl6e16qsY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KeACP1Id50