LITERATURE QUESTIONS
RESTORATION EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DRAMA
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the theater’s emphasis of quantity over quality.
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the publishing industry.
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how theatrical success depends more upon who you know rather than individual talent.
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that audiences will attend any play, regardless of its merits.
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the rising number of plays featuring burlesque interludes.
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Detailed explanation-1: -farce, a comic dramatic piece that uses highly improbable situations, stereotyped characters, extravagant exaggeration, and violent horseplay. The term also refers to the class or form of drama made up of such compositions.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Author’s Farce and the Pleasures of the Town is a play by the English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding, first performed on 30 March 1730 at the Little Theatre, Haymarket. Written in response to the Theatre Royal’s rejection of his earlier plays, The Author’s Farce was Fielding’s first theatrical success.
Detailed explanation-3: -Identity Centered: Revolves around the mistaken or threatened identity of the characters. Attitude towards the Plot: Wit and Manners: Reversal of Expectations: Velocity and Speed: Multiple and Fragile Substructures: Use of Character Roles:
Detailed explanation-4: -The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare. La Cage Aux Folles by Jean Poiret. It’s Only a Play by Terrence McNally. The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare. She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett. Tartuffe by Moliere. More items