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VICTORIAN DRAMA - Coggle Diagram
VICTORIAN DRAMA
THEATRICAL PERFORMANCES
pantomime
farce
music hall
melodrama
heroines in danger, conspiring villains, happy ending
NEW VICTORIAN THEATRES
smaller than the previous ones
more comfortable
new lighting giving more realistic effects
electric lighting introduction:
actors in bright light in front of a hidden audience
the viewer's experience became INDIVIDUAL rather than COMMUNAL
STAGE DIRECTIONS
longer and more detailed than Elizabethan ones
illustrated characters' personalities
conveyed the author's comments
PLAYWRIGHTS
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
drama: vehicle for presenting his views on social institutions
influenced by the Norwegian playwright HENRYK IBSEN
the problem of time
social and personal problems
OSCAR WILDE
brilliant COMEDIES full of HUMOUR and WIT
exposed the FAULTS and HYPOCRISY of his age
GAP
between 1700 (Elizabethan theatre) and the 19th century no great author wrote plays because:
Great actors turning POOR PLAYS into SUCCESS
the rich MIDDLE CLASS didn't appreciate drama and considered actors men of LITTLE RESPECTABILITY
THEATRICAL MANAGERS decided what could appeal the audience
there was the RISE OF THE NOVEL
apart from WILLIAM CONGREVE (
The old bachelor
,
The mourning bride
)