Frivolous Decades: Second Empire
What is the Second Empire?
Louis-Napoleon becomes Emperor Napoleon III and wife is Eugenie.
Eugénie - drames de l’agio = plays about financial speculation
The Middle class wanted their values shown on stage
What is Russian Realism?
-after the Decemberist uprising was crushed, Romantic impulses turned to realism
-the form consists of nature, psychology, nostalgia for the past, feminism, satire of existing conditions, sordid conditions, and Russian life
Who was Mikahil Shchepkin?
-Leading actor @Maly Theatre in Moschow in the 19th-Century
-serf-born actor 0played Character roles
-Played mayor in "Government Inspector:
-Acted with technique
What was the Cesky Krumlov Theatre?
-rare surviving Barquo theatre
-built in castle
-wooden chariots
Who was Josef Kotana?
-greatest Hungarian dramatic poet and playwright
-"Bank Bon" (1 of 2 great Hungarian classical plays, was his famous play and he never wrote another play after)
What was the Third Republic?
consisted of Gay Nineties (1890's) and Belle Epoque (1900-1914)
What was the Golden Age of Russian Literature?
Coincided with reign of Nicholas I (1825-1855)
Who was Ivan Sergeivich Turgenev?
-novelist and playwright
-wrote about relationships, young love, and psychology
-Western sensibility
-"A Month in the Country" was his greatest play
Who was Josef kajetan Tyl?
- the father of Czech theatre
-actor, editor, dramaturg
-prolific playwright
Leading 19th century activist for Czech national theatre
Realism on bourgeoisie Czech life
1834 The Shoemakers’ Fair (Fidlovacka)
Cestmír—CELEBRATES BEING CZECH
1835 Kajetán Theatre - managed by Tyl until 1837
1846 The Bagpiper of Strakonice
1848 Bloody Trial; or, The Miners of Kutna Mountain
Jan Hus
1849 A Stubborn Woman
-acted @ Estaes Theatre (1830's)
-opened his own theatre
-"The Shoemaker's Fair"
-introduced "where is my home" (song) that later became the Czech National anthem
Who was Imre Madach?
-nobleman
-frail health
-studied philosophy and Law @ Pest University
-Imprisioned by Austrians for a year for sheltering a political fugitive
-wrote "The Tragedy of Man"
-had sympathy for workers
-died of heart failure
Who was Eugene Labiche?
-Greatest author of French face before Feydou
-Wrote mostly Vaudevilles
-Wrote 1-acts @ Theatre de Gymnase
-Italian Straw Hat (contained elements of well-made play in order to move along plot)
(1815-1888) 160+ plays, with collaborators - French Playwright
Follower of Eugene Scribe and the Well-Made Play
Plays were mostly vaudevilles
1851 Un Chapeau de paille d'Italie (An Italian Straw Hat)
His first full length play
Explain the Slavophiles vs Westernizers (Zapadniks)
-Slavophiles were led by Sergei T. Askyonov. Believed Russia's strength is in its rich cultural heritage, orthodox church, Russian soil (Muskovits Newspaper
-Westernizers were led by Vissorian Belinsky (Russia's first important drama critic [contemporary]). Wanted reforms to align Russian more closely with Europe's ties and liberty. Herzen "The Bell"
Who was Alexander Nikolaievech Ostrovsky?
-playwright, translator, promotor of realistic acting @Moscow Maly Theatre
-middle class
-"The Storm"
-samodour aka the domestic tyrant was a typical character type in his work
-Translated Shakespeare and Molier plays into Russian
-wrote plays about Russian life
-loved Pauline Viardot who was a Spanish Opera Singer
Name 2 Czech Romantic dramatics
Jaroslav Vrchlicky
-"Night at the karlstein"
Julius Ceyer
-"Raduz a Mahulena"
Who was Jacques Offenbach?
-King of French Operetta
- French Composer/ Cellist
-"Orpheus in the Underworld"
-"Tales of Hoffman"
Collaborators of Offenbach
Henri Meilhac (1831-1897) and Ludovic Halévy (1834-1908) - Lyricists
Who was Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol?
-The founder of Russian Realism
-wrote humorous short stories, novellas and plays
-famous for large nose
-The Nose= Gogol's weirdest and most beloved story
-Dead Souls= Best novel by Gogol
-"The Government Inspector" was his dramatic masterpiece, illustrated the flaws in Russian Society, specifically regarding superstition
Name a Czech dramatist of Realism?
Samberk
-"27 Polacky Avenue"
Jerabek
-"His Master's Servant"
-Applied piece bien faite formula to social problem plays
-"Lets Get a Divorce" (most produced play and was made into a musical)
-wrote plays dismissed as sardeodoodledom
-wrote lots of historical dramas
-Wrote plays that were vehicles for Sara Bernhardt such as "Theodora", "Tosca" and "Gismonda"
Name the two types of well known Moscow Theatres
-Bolshoi (for opera and Ballet; 1825, burned down in 1853; rebuilt in 1856)
-Maly (legitimate drama; company formed in 1806; theatre opened in 1824)