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"slice of life"

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Richard Wagner

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Over 20,000 plays were performed in commercialized theatres in the 1700’s

but few have ever been revived.

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That doesn't mean they were bad, they were just in high demand!

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Commercial theatre was non-offensive to large mass audiences.

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Simplistic themes so the audience wouldn't have to think as much.

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was the dominant form

of theatre in the eighteenth century

.  It

demanded decorum and rigorous

adherence to the classical unities.

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5 acts- Must have 5-act structure.
Purity of genre- No mixing styles.
Decorum and verisimilitude- truth seeming, must teach and please.

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Time after war when everyone was restoring their country.

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Most backgrounds had a multi-point perspective and a chariot and pole system, Italianate staging, indoor lit by candles.

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Had to follow 5 acts

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Showed every part of life, which went out of style because it seemed boring to many people.

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hero and/or heroine, comic relief, and villain

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A theatrical movement in Germany during the 1770s and 1780s that was marked by its militant experimentation with dramatic form, theatrical style, and social statement.

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was the age of revolutions.

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profit was the main goal, people who controlled the finances of a theatre were producers.

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Music drama, good always beat evil, the playwrighting was clumsy, the plot was predictable, energetic with lots of adventure and emotions, multiple comedic sequences.

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Comedy of manners, Heroic tragedies, sentimental comedy, domestic tragedy.

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Realism shapes everything we know today and naturalism attempts to show a "slice of life"

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It was about mindset and way of feeling.

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Time, place, action: 24hr, 1 place, 1 event.

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Chapter 9

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Chapter 9

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Chapter 8

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Chapter 17

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Chapter 7