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The 18th century French theatre flourished with influential playwrights such as Voltaire, known for works such as Œdipe (1718) and Zaïre (1732), and Marivaux, whose comedies explored the complexities of love, while Denis Diderot introduced the Bourgeois tragedy, and Beaumarchais revolutionized comedy with Le Barbier de Séville (1775) and Le ...
French theatre became full of "pieces de circonstance," or "works of social circumstances," particularly where the events of the military were concerned. [10] For example, in December 1793, a member of the Committee of Public Safety , Bertrand Barère , demanded that playwrights create work about the French capture of Toulon .
Shakespeare was enormously popular, and began to be performed with texts closer to the original, as the drastic rewriting of 17th and 18th century performing versions for the theatre (as opposed to his plays in book form, which were also widely read) was gradually removed over the first half of the century. A Theatre Royal, Exeter playbill from ...
Theater", according to Friedland, "was not 'really' about politics any more than politics was 'really' about theater". [55] What theater and politics did share was the "same underlying representative process". [56] 18th century transformations in modes of political representation paralleled new theories of representation on the stage.
17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; ... Pages in category "17th-century theatre" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
Today, with its superb acoustics and magnificent décor, the Opera represents one of the finest 18th century opera houses in Europe. The importance of the Opera Royal is directly linked to the history of the many theatres at Versailles and the history of theatrical stagings in 17th and 18th century France.
An 18th-century Neoclassical theatre in Ostankino, Moscow. Neoclassicism was the dominant form of theatre in the 18th century. It demanded decorum and rigorous adherence to the classical unities. Neoclassical theatre as well as the time period is characterized by its grandiosity.
In the 17th century, the historical Comédie-Italienne was supported by the king. At that time, a distinction was made between so-called legitimate theatre, which could be performed in royally-sanctioned theatres, and the more lowbrow street theatre, which did not undergo the scrutiny of royal censors.