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The Eighteenth Century

The Eighteenth Century. B ackground. Eighteenth C entury Drama. A. Background :. A More complex world . A more complex world :. The period between 1660 and 1785 was a time of amazing expansion for England — or for "Great Britain,"

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The Eighteenth Century

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  1. The Eighteenth Century Background. Eighteenth Century Drama.

  2. A. Background : A More complex world .

  3. A more complex world : • The period between 1660 and 1785 was a time of amazing expansion for England — or for "Great Britain," • One lasting change was a shift in population from the country to the town.

  4. B. Eighteenth Century Drama: New Dramatic FORMS.

  5. New Dramatic Forms : • Comedy of manners, in which fops and dandies presided over a heavily structured world of superficial lovers and intrigues • Sentimental dramas, in which melodramatic exaggerated scenes broke the audience’s heart in superficial ways. • Anti sentimental dramas initiated as a reaction against the lack of wit &realism of sentimental dramas. • Heroic tragedies, in which historical figures came to bad ends in exaggerated ways. • Domestic Tragedy ,is a tragedy in which the tragic protagonists are ordinary middle-class or lower-class individuals. • Ballad Opera : a singing musical comedy .

  6. the sentimental comedy • the Sentimental Comedy appeared as an ethical middle class reaction against the immoral& profane Restoration comedy. • Expressed in an essay by Jermey Collier essay [A short view of the immorality& profaneness of the English stage] in 1698.

  7. Cont. • "Sentiment" would of course mean 'excess of emotion, characterized by scenes which were meant to evoke excessive pity, concerned with morals , not manners ,sentimental& melodramatic not witty or ironic presented by characters • Richard Steele's (1672-1729)"The Conscious Lovers"(1722)is a typical example of Sentimental Comedy.

  8. Anti- sentimental drama : • For a certain period of time Sentimental Drama was popular, but soon people got tired of it and the Comedy of Manners was revived in the 2nd half of the 18th century as a reaction against the Sentimental comedy by Goldsmith (1728-74) and Sheridan (1751-1816).

  9. .. • In an essay by Oliver Goldsmith , Comparison between Sentimental and Laughing Comedy (1773) he compared the sentimental comedy with the laughing comedy distinguishing elements of sentimental comedy.

  10. Comparison between Sentimental and Laughing Comedy : Sentimental comedy Anti-Sentimental comedy It’s a laughing comedy. Source of people vulgarity. High class people audience. The characters sophisticated and proud. • it’s a weeping comedy. • Source of emotions. • Middle class characters. • Almost all the characters are good.

  11. Thank you for listening  Done by : MeshaelAlrumaih Aisha Alwahbi

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