LITERATURE QUESTIONS
RESTORATION EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DRAMA
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represented by cardboard paintings.
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as fully developed as a play’s main characters.
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flat characters who did not develop.
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not given speaking roles.
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portrayed no differently from any other play of the 18th century.
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Detailed explanation-1: -He is considered one of the most important French playwrights of the 18th century, writing numerous comedies for the Comédie-Française and the Comédie-Italienne of Paris. His most important works are Le Triomphe de l’amour, Le Jeu de l’amour et du hasard and Les Fausses Confidences.
Detailed explanation-2: -Marivaux’s human psychology is best revealed in his romance novels, both unfinished. La Vie de Marianne (1731–41), which preceded Samuel Richardson’s Pamela (1740), anticipates the novel of sensibility in its glorification of a woman’s feelings and intuition.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Game of Love and Chance (French: Le Jeu de l’amour et du hasard) is a three-act romantic comedy by French playwright Marivaux. The Game of Love and Chance was first performed 23 January 1730 by the Comédie Italienne.
Detailed explanation-4: -The story of the novel focuses on the life of Marianne, an attractive young woman who has lost both her parents in a coach hold-up. Because her parents are dead people do not know how to treat Marianne-is she an aristocrat or is she bourgeois.