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391 MIDTERM, TIMELINE, CHANGES - Coggle Diagram

- - - - "Serious drama: Italian influence. Included Heroic tragedy ( 1. Extraordinary characters doing extraordinary things. 2. Themes of love and honor) and Restoration Drama ( adhering to neoclassical rules)
      - NOT UNUSUAL FOR RESTORATION PLAYWRIGHTS TO REWORK SHAKESPEARE INTO NEOCLSSICAL MOLD
      - RESTORATION COMEDY: comedies of hour, in which characters have one trait overshadowing all others.
        FARCES; comedies of manners; comedies of intrigue- featured daring exploits of romance and adventure and had complicated plots.
        MOST SUCCESSFUL WRITERS OF COMEDIES OF INTRIGUE WAS APHRA BEHN (1640-16890
        
        APHRA BEHN: first known English woman dramatist, poet and novelist.
        Defending a play in which there was a scene in a brothel: "It was bawdy, the least and most excusable fault in the men writers, to whose plays they all crowd, as if they came ot no other end than to hear that they condemn in this, but from a woman it was unnatural"
        
        FEMALE WITS: Catharine Trotter, Mary Pix, Delariviere Manley.
        
        Comedy of manners: influenced by French dramatist MOLIERE- focuses on the fashions and foibles of the upper class- gossip, adultery, sexual escapades. COMEDIES POKE FUN AT THE SOCIAL CONVENTIONS AND NORMS OF THE TIME/ satirize the preoccupation of the upper class with reputation. Language- witty exchanges, repartee, sexually suggestive references is at a premium.
        
        dramatic structure of Restoration Comedy: combines features of Elizebthan theatre with features of French and Italian neoclassical theatre.
        
        RESTORATION AUDIENNCES: bought oranges from orange wenches, spoke back to the actors, attended the theatre to be seen rather than to see the play. Provoked resistance from religious leaders who were opposed to theatre.
        **members of upper class, primarily the same class that were being satirized in the plays
        
        other contrasts: Ancient Greece, medieval theatre, elizabethan public theares: audiences constisted all strata of society. But in productions at European courts, such as masques were only seen by the nobility and royality
        
        FEMALE ACTRESSES: biggest English Renaissance to Restoration theatre. England forbade actresses until 1660,so women onstage became a novelty that strongly appealed to the men in the audiences.
        FAVORITE DRAMATIC DEVICE: to have a woman dress as a man; parts that requires this kind of cross-dressing were called BREECHES-ROLES
        **DUE TO STRONG SEXUAL FASCINATION. seeing a woman figures outlined in tight trousers, getting a good idea fo the shape of her legs.
        
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        As is typical of plays written in this period, the names of the characters in this period indicate their desires and personalities. (ex. Horner the devious who uses cover story of a venereal disease to gain access to his acquaintances wives')
- - - - 19th CENTURY: CENTURY OF PROGRESS
        
        era of the industrial revolution. *Development of machines for manufacturing and transportation
        
        problems could be solved by industrialization
        
        OPTIMISM OF THAT TIME:workers would get wages that would allow them to buy goods. factories would supply goods.