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