THAR 281 1st Edition Lecture 6 Outline of Last Lecture I Restoration of England background II Characteristics of this period III Comedy of Manners IV Aphra Behn V William Wycherly VI William Congreve VII The Busy Body Outline of Current Lecture I 18th century II Denis Diderot III Middle class tragedy IV Sentimental comedies a Laughing comedies V Richard Brinsley Sheridan VI Ballard opera VII Strum and Drang VIII The emerging director a Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Current Lecture I II In this 18th century time period the audience is more separate from the performers The audience has etiquette In Europe there is much colonization going on making Europe globalize There is also an explosion of the middle class Denis Diderot published a 17 volume encyclopedia in 1772 His thoughts were Actors should use craft instead of feeling the motion a passion to act This moved towards the realism period These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Pioneers the concept of the 4th wall not acknowledging the audience including interacting with the audience Created named the Drama Bourgeois genre This puts problems of the middle class on stage with their morals and philosophies Comedy and tragedy mix Middle class tragedy is when middle class problems were on stage Morality is a big theme in these play meaning if you do good good things will happen to you and vice versa Emergence of sentimental comedies and melodrama more 19 th century Sentimental comedies are the revolution of the restoration period These plays reaffirmed middle class families Sentimental comedies were very extreme like comedy of manners with a happy and victorious ending a Laughing comedies were an attempt to balance super sweet sentimental comedies and restoration comedies These plays were very modest Richard Brinsley Sheridan was most famous for writing sentimental comedies His most popular are The Rivals and The School for Scandal Ballard opera led America to musical theatre Makes fun of the Italian opera by taking popular songs to dialogue like musicals Opera coique is the name of Italian opera The Beggar s opera is the most famous ballad opera which is packed with short popular songs Ballard opera led to operetta Strum and Drang means storm and stress movement These plays were a very short lived artistic movement Writers made a point to explicitly rebel against neo classicism This was a springboard for a much more influential artistic Romanticism The Emerging director was not necessarily called a director yet but the need for one is emerging Usually the playwrites or lead actor of the company would have over seen production There was now a new sole responsibility a Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe was a proto director and the first to draw attention to the direction role He trained actors vigorously and taught them how to think about all the actors around them not just themselves He was very specific on how the play was directed and shown to the audience He also established modern rules of theatre etiquette which mostly only included applauding at the end of a show His most famous work was Foust which has gotten told multiple times throughout history III IV V VI VII VIII