THTR 420 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Fatalism, Proscenium, Liberal Democracy
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Transportation: 1700s, improvements to wagons and trams, more roads, 1800-1900s, development of steam transportation, trains and boats, we see length in time, things because closer/ faster. Theatre at this time: public were attending, public started paying for, theatre became more about drawing in the public, king still has censorship, but majority of profits come from patroness (public) History as the retelling of the past is authored: we are receiving it in a way that is organized, literary devices are used to help us. But what actually happened is not always clear: what is the relationship of this play and the retelling of history and historical context. This does not predict but it is evidence that these thoughts were present at the time. And it makes sense that a revolution can come after but it doesn"t foreshadow. Foreshadowing may not be the right word: analogy.
