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Mind Map by Leonardo Murillo, updated more than 1 year ago
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The New Drama
- The re-birth
- The Puritans closed the theaters in 1642.
- The King granted patents to Thomas Killigrew and Sir William Davenant.
- English Drama had to begin all over again.
- The needs of the restoration audiences were different than before, and the physical circumstances of the drama
had changed.
- Davenant took a turn towards lighting, swift changes and music rather than speech.
- Women player were introduced in the Restoration. This gave more realistic sexual atmosphere to
the acting.
- The Puritans closed the theaters in 1642.
- Restoration
Comedy
- In this new generation the normal was to go straight to the understanding without getting poetry in the way.
- Shakespeare seemed to be too complex for that time.
- New dramatists specialized for the most part in comedy.
- Main topics were lust, cuckoldry, and intrigue.
- - The senior Restoration comedian was George Etherege (1634 - 1691)
- Among the comedians of the age we find John Vanbrugh and William Congreve.
- In this new generation the normal was to go straight to the understanding without getting poetry in the way.
- Restoration of Tragedies
- Congreve, Dryden, and Thomas Otway were some exponents who wrote tragedies in this age.
- The Restoration period was not an heroic age despite its love of heroic couplets.
- The characteristic achievement is the witty, immoral comedy of manners.
- The ascendancy in the drama of the age came from France, and Moliere’s achievement alone is equals all
English dramatists altogheter.
- In 1698 a man called Collier attacked the immorality and profaneness of the English, so there was a general
movement to clean up the comedy and it declined further.
- Congreve, Dryden, and Thomas Otway were some exponents who wrote tragedies in this age.
- Beginnings of Opera
- At the beginning of the XVIII century opera took much of the protagonist that drama had.
- New standards in drama started to be less poetical and intelectual.
- After all, sentimentality holds sway.
- Drama had become so feeble that it in some way needed a
“blood transfusion” and two Irishmen, Oliver Goldsmith and
Richard Brinsley Sheridan could revive the spirit of the
Restoration comedy.
- Finally, one of the English answers to the popular Italian
opera was The Beggar’s Opera, by John Gay (1685 - 1732).
- At the beginning of the XVIII century opera took much of the protagonist that drama had.
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