- Theatre History II
- The French Neoclassical Age
- Political & Social Background
- 1562 - 93 Civil & religious wars
- 1598 Edict of Nantes
- 1614: Reign of Louis XIII begins
- 1643 Reign of Louis XIV begins
- Drama
- Popular
- Commedia dell'arte
- Medieval farce & liturgical drama
- Confrerie de la Passion
- Alexandre Hardy
- Scholarly
- The Pleiade
- Neoclassical rules
- Neoclassical rules
- Verisimilitude
- Reality, Morality, Universality
- Purity of dramatic form
- Character norms & decorum
- Moral & didactic function
- Three unities
- The Cid Controversy
- Unity of time vs. verisimilitude
- Decorum
- Genre
- The Judgment of the Academy
- Pierre Corneille
- Serious plays
- Clearly motivated characters
- Issues of honor
- Complex plots
- Jean Racine
- Tragedies by Neoclassical rules
- Internal conflicts of characters
- Duty vs. desire
- Simple unified plots
- Poetic language
- Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
- Moliere
- Actor & manager
- Playwright
- Comedy of manners
- Farce
- Comic Ballet
- Moliere's Comedies
- Domestic settings
- Ridicule human behavior
- People don't change
- Deus ex machina
- Acting Companies
- Sharing plan
- 8 - 12 members
- Men & women
- Stage names
- Government support
- Comedie Francaise
- 1680: Royal Command
- Monopoly on spoken drama
- Europe's 1st national theatre
- Doyen
- Societaires
- Pensionnaires
- Hotel de Bourgogne
- Paradis
- Loges
- Stage
- Parterre
- Amphitheatre
- Theatre du Marais
- 1635: adapted from tennis courts
- 1644: rebuilt as permanent theatre
- Amphitheatre
- Theatre superieure
- Palace Cardinal/Royal
- Scenery
- Italian scenery
- Salle des Machines
- Stage: 140 of 240 feet
- Monarch: central viewpoint
- Close of the age
- by 1700: 2 troupes w/ monopolies:
- Comedie Francaise
- Opera
- 1685: Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes
- Louis XIV stops attending theatre