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VICTORIAN DRAMA - Coggle Diagram
VICTORIAN DRAMA
STAGE DIRECTIONS
much longer and more detailed-> characters' personalities, describing their actions or gestures
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NEW VICTORIAN THEATRES
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smaller than the other built before, and there were much conforfable
THEATRICAL PERFORMANCES
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The ingredients were often the same: virtuous heroines in danger, hard-hearted conspiring villains, and happy endings with the triumph of true love and the punishment of the villain
PLAYWRIGHTS
OSCAR WILDE-> Wilde wrote brilliant comedies whose main feature was dialogue full of humour and wit intended to expose the faults and hypocrisy of his age
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW->considered drama as a vehicle for presenting his views on social institutions and human experience in a provocative form.
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the melodrama good always wins on the evil, the characters are stereotyped and everything is schematic.
INNOVATION-> Victorian playhouse, the space allowed a realistic rapresentation and charges of scene