Theatre History

By marylauren1189
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    English Resoration Period

    Congreve, Wycherley, Aphra Behn; Proscenium, women, unities, NO decorum
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    George Lillo's Life

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    The Englightenment

    discovery, sci, question tradition, look to future
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    Jean Jacques Rousseau

    Proto-Rom: Discourse on Inequality
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    Denis Diderot's Life

  • Steele's "The Conscious Lovers"

    Sentimental Comedy: "Comedy too exquisite for laughter"
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    G.E. Lessing's Life

  • Lillo's "The London Merchant"

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    Pierre Beaumarchais's Life

  • Lessing's "Miss Sara Sampson"

    middle class tragedy

  • "Melodrama" coined by Rousseau in "Pygmalion"

  • Beachmarchais's "Eugenie"

    DRAME in france

  • Lessing is 1st Dramaturg

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    August Wilhelm Schlegel's Life

    German Romantic Theorist
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    Strum and Grand

  • Diderot's "The Paradox of Acting" written

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    Ludwig Tiech's Life

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    Henrich von Kleist's Life

    Essay on Marionette Theatre

  • Beamarchais's "The Marriage of Figaro"

    Domestic Comedy

  • Lessing's "Nathan the Wise"

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    Weimar Classism

  • Pixerecourt's "Coelina" first real melodrama

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    Romanticism

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    Melodrama

  • Tieck's Kaiser Octavianus

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    Victor Hugo's Life

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    Georg Buchner's Life

  • "Well-Made Play" developed by Scribe

  • Stone's "The Last of the Wampanoag"

    Romantic Melodrama

  • Diderot's "The Paradox of Action" published

  • Hugo's "Hernani"

  • "Well-made play" perfected

  • Buchner's "Woyzeck" written

  • Stowe writes "Uncle Tom's Cabin"

  • Aiken adapts "Uncle Tom's Cabin"

  • Boucicault's "The Poor of New York"

    Urban Melodrama

  • Boucicault's "Octoroon"

  • Daly's "Under the Gaslight"

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    Vaudeville Entertainment

  • Pasto transforms Vaudeville

    Keith and Albee later establish

  • Vaudeville chains of theatres

  • Buchner's "Woyzeck" published

  • Vaudeville gives way to radio and film

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