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English Resoration Period
Congreve, Wycherley, Aphra Behn; Proscenium, women, unities, NO decorum -
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George Lillo's Life
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The Englightenment
discovery, sci, question tradition, look to future -
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
Proto-Rom: Discourse on Inequality -
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Denis Diderot's Life
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Steele's "The Conscious Lovers"
Sentimental Comedy: "Comedy too exquisite for laughter" -
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G.E. Lessing's Life
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Lillo's "The London Merchant"
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Pierre Beaumarchais's Life
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Lessing's "Miss Sara Sampson"
middle class tragedy -
"Melodrama" coined by Rousseau in "Pygmalion"
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Beachmarchais's "Eugenie"
DRAME in france -
Lessing is 1st Dramaturg
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August Wilhelm Schlegel's Life
German Romantic Theorist -
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Strum and Grand
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Diderot's "The Paradox of Acting" written
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Ludwig Tiech's Life
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Henrich von Kleist's Life
Essay on Marionette Theatre -
Beamarchais's "The Marriage of Figaro"
Domestic Comedy -
Lessing's "Nathan the Wise"
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Weimar Classism
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Pixerecourt's "Coelina" first real melodrama
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Romanticism
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Melodrama
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Tieck's Kaiser Octavianus
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Victor Hugo's Life
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Georg Buchner's Life
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"Well-Made Play" developed by Scribe
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Stone's "The Last of the Wampanoag"
Romantic Melodrama -
Diderot's "The Paradox of Action" published
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Hugo's "Hernani"
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"Well-made play" perfected
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Buchner's "Woyzeck" written
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Stowe writes "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
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Aiken adapts "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
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Boucicault's "The Poor of New York"
Urban Melodrama -
Boucicault's "Octoroon"
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Daly's "Under the Gaslight"
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Vaudeville Entertainment
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Pasto transforms Vaudeville
Keith and Albee later establish -
Vaudeville chains of theatres
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Buchner's "Woyzeck" published
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Vaudeville gives way to radio and film