THAR 281 1st Edition Lecture 13 Outline of Last Lecture I Romanticism Melodrama and the Well Made Play II Acting Styles of the 19th Century III Development of the Modern Director Outline of Current Lecture IV Theatre Architecture V Scenery Costuming Lighting VI Quiz 4 Current Lecture I Theatre Architecture New technology New theatres Smaller theatres focused on specific audiences Audience comfort better ventilation actual seating in chairs II Scenery Costuming Lighting Historical accuracy in scenery costumes Replacing wing and shutter with scenic flats The Box Set set up scenes with imaginary 4th walls Spectacle special effects in set design 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 Gas lighting III Quiz 4 The French dramatic form Drame was a serious play that did not fit the neoclassical definition of tragedy Oliver Goldsmith who wrote She Stoops to Conquer opposed sentimental comedies by writing laughing comedies Sentimental comedies are comedies of manners with morals The Sturm und Drang Storm and Stress movement was the forerunner of Romanticism Governments of the 18th Century have not yet began to relinquish control and deregulate theatre To accommodate the new middle class audience theatres became larger during the 18th Century Goethe was known as a regisseur who required traditional acting styles for his actors rehearsed for long hours had the actors face the audience not each other Goethe established rules for the actors and the audience The Bibiena family is noted for their work with multipoint perspective as designers Charles Macklin and David Garrick both rebelled against the bombastic styles of acting
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