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17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; ... Theatres completed in the 17th century (31 C) Pages in category "17th-century theatre" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of ...
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 ...
A popular style of theatre during Jacobean times was the revenge play, which had been popularised earlier in the Elizabethan era by Thomas Kyd (1558–94), and then subsequently developed by John Webster (1578–1632) in the 17th century.
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.
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 ...
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.
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 .
17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st; ... Theatres completed in the 18th century (63 C, 2 P) Pages in category "18th-century theatre" The following 17 pages are in this ...