Neoclassic period
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The document provides an overview of the Neoclassic period of drama from the mid-17th to early 18th centuries. It discusses key characteristics including a focus on decorum, unity of time and place, and portraying the lives of upper classes. Two main play types of the period were comedy focused on lower classes and tragedy on royals. Notable playwrights of the Neoclassic period in France included Jean Racine, Molière, and Pierre Corneille, known as the father of French tragedy. An example play by Corneille discussed is Le Cid. The document also briefly describes the proscenium theater format common during this era.
Neoclassic period
- 1. WINTER Neoclassic Template Critical Analysis of Drama Group 8 Fira Nursya’bani Meyza Pritama Judika Sinaga Prita Annisa Utami Richo Arifianto
- 2. Neoclassic Period • Neoclassicism Greek: ‘neos’ ; Latin: ‘classicus’ ; Greek: ‘ismos’. • It began in France by the writings of Italian scholars in 15th century, then to the theatre. • Mid 17th to early 18th centuries. • It is signed by grandiosity (greatness), intricate scenery, and elaborated drama (melodrama). • Neoclassic believes that the main reason of a play were enjoyment and to teach a lesson.
- 3. Neoclassic Period (Cont..) • Neoclassic focuses on decorum (appropriateness), dignified behavior, and realism. • The stage was signed by the dramatic, elaborated, and rich scenery. • It then developed by the redesigned stage; the creation of pulley system to help moving the stage faster, the lighting and sound effects.
- 4. Neoclassic Period (Cont..) Two main types of play in Neoclassic period: 1. Comedy It focused on the lower levels of society. 2. Tragedy It portrayed the complex and fateful lives of the upper classes and royals.
- 5. The Characteristics of Neoclassic • Verisimilitude • rules: reality, morality & generality Unity of time, place and action Ethical and philosophical framework within the play Creating characters that are identifiable as good and proper French citizens
- 6. The Characteristics of Neoclassic •No mixing of genres (comedy and tragedy) • Plays must be five acts • The costumes and scenery were intricate and elaborate. • The acting is characterized by large gestures and melodrama.
- 7. Playwright Jean Racine Jean-Baptiste Racine (22 December 1639 – 21 April 1699) He was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France
- 8. Playwright Racine’s plays • Phèdre • Andromaque • Athalie • Les Plaideurs • Esther
- 9. Playwright Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (Molière) (January 15, 1622 – February 17, 1673) He was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature
- 10. Playwright Molière’s Plays • Le Misanthrope (The Misanthrope) • L'École des femmes (The School for Wives) • Tartuffe ou L'Imposteur (Tartuffe or the Imposter) • L'Avare (The Miser) • Le Malade imaginaire (The Imaginary Invalid), and • Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (The Bourgeois Gentleman).
- 11. Playwright Pierre Corneille The father of french tragedian • Pierre Corneille was born in Rouen in 1606 and died in 1684 • He was raised in the Jesuit tradition and studied law • A significant part of his life was spent as a member of parliament • During his time in parliament, and for years afterward, he was the playwright who established the Neoclassical Ideal in French theatre.
- 12. Playwright • Although he is most famous as a writer of tragedy, • his first eight plays were comedies and first works Mélite (1629), . • In both tragedy and comedy, he achieved success writing great plays that strictly adhered to the Neoclassical doctrines of verisimilitude and the unities.
- 13. Playwright • While the play adhered to the unities of time, place, and action, the decision of the lovers to marry so quickly after the death of Chimene’s father was seen as a violation of decorum. • In addition, the play did not seem to fit any of the recognized dramatic types; it was neither comedy nor tragedy. • After the pause in his work, he wrote four more plays, all of excellent worth within the Neoclassical Ideal.
- 14. Example of pierre work’s • (tragedy) Le Cid – The play begins in the evening. The hero, Roderigue, and the heroine, Chimene, are engaged to be married. Roderigue’s father, Don Diegue, is insulted by Chimene’s father, Don Gomez, when they quarrel over the king’s favor. The elder general, Don Diegue is unable to defend his honor, and so he sends his son (Roderigue) against Chimene’s father in a duel. Roderigue succeeds in killing Don Gomez, but it costs him the love of Chimene. While Chimene sues to the king for vengeance, word arrives of an invasion from a Moorish fleet. Roderique leads 500 soldiers in a surprise attack against the Moors, and he succeeds in thwarting the invasion and saving the kingdom. The king cannot act against his newest hero, but, the next morning, Chimene offers herself in marriage to whoever will challenge Roderigue to avenge the death of her father. Don Sancho volunteers and Chimene quickly accepts. The king determines that Chimene will wed whoever wins the duel. Roderigue privately informs Chimene that he will not defend himself – he would rather die with honor than live without her love. Chimene reveals her love for Roderique and orders him to defend himself. Roderique is successful, but Chimene cannot marry the man who killed her father so quickly after his death. The king grants Chimene one year to mourn for her father while Roderigue is ordered to lead the army against the Moors, until their love can be united.
- 15. Proscenium Theater Proscenium is from a Greek word: Pro in front Skene hut -ion diminutive suffix
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