DRAM 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter Summary: Chariot Racing, Madison Square Theatre, Bourgeois Tragedy
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Believe human nature is the same in all times and places. Limited regular drama to two simple forms: comedy and tragedy. Tragedy: characters from ruling classes -> based stories on history of myth in a poetic and lofty style. Comedy: characters from lower or middle classes -> based stories on domestic and/or private affairs. The ultimate goal: most important untold truth. > unless it was from the bible, myth, or history. > battles and death offstage to make the action more credible. > maintaining, time, place, and action to support reality (unities: morality. > drama teaching moral lessons -> morality was part of neoclassic realm of reality. > reflects god"s power and justice: universal. Experience as particular and private vs general and impersonal. Personal right vs authoritarian regimes (ex: churches and governments) Late 18th century - early 19th century. > special effects (i. e. volcanoes, fire, burning building, etc) > latest inventions (electricity, 1880s, and electric motors)
