Playwrights
This playwright was among the first professional female playwrights, and the most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing.
Aphra Behn
This genre is a blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during performances.
What is melodrama?
This was a period of philosophical, scientific, technological, and political revolutions.
What was the Age of Reason/Enlightenment?
This Restoration era ruler spent his exile in France, leading to French influences in theatre in his country.
Who was King Charles II?
The Romantic movement in Germany was named after this play, written by Friedrich M. Klinger.
What was Sturm und Drang?
This French playwright compiled, wrote, and edited the first Western encyclopedia.
Diderot
This genre was the most popular type of play during the Restoration.
What was comedy of manners?
Comedy of manners was the most popular type of theatre during this era.
What was the Restoration?
This actress is considered the most flamboyant of the early English actresses, often taking on “breeches roles”.
Who was Nell Gwyn?
This play was the seen by some scholars as the start of the French Revolution.
What was The Marriage of Figaro?
This French playwright’s satirical writing often got him into trouble with the Church.
Who was Voltaire?
These plays showed middle class characters finding happiness and true love.
What were sentimental comedies?
This era is often defined by proscenium arches, neoclassical rules, plush costumes, and upper-class patrons.
What was the Restoration?
This Enlightenment philosopher said that there should be a division of power, a system of checks and balances, and a separation of church and state.
Who was John Locke?
These were the Restoration era’s audience‘s main reasons for going to the theatre.
What were socializing and conducting business?
This playwright not only wrote plays, but was also the manager of the Duke of Weimar’s playhouse
Who was Goethe?
These plays told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences.
What were domestic tragedies?
This era also gave birth to the beginnings of modern religious tolerance.
What was the Enlightenment?
This actor was one of the earliest traveling stars, and began acting at an early age at the African Theatre in New York City.
Who was Ira Aldridge?
During the Enlightenment, playwrights used an early form of this to understand characters’ decisions.
What was psychology?
This playwright had one of his plays banned, and he was imprisoned for a time for the play’s criticism of the aristocratic class.
Who was Beaumarchais?
What was The Marriage of Figaro?
The French playwright Eugene Scribe was one of the most prolific writers of this genre.
What was melodrama?
During the Enlightenment, these writers began to question the Scientific Revolution’s obsession with logic.
Who were the Romantics?
This Enlightenment era philosopher attacked Aristotelian Scholasticism, calling for acquiring knowledge via the scientific method, rather than relying on the four “idols of knowledge.”
Who was Francis Bacon?
The most expensive seats in Restoration era theater were placed here.
What was on stage?