CU British Literature 2013-14
Saturday, 7 September 2013
FEATURES OF RESTORATION DRAMA (GROUP 7)
FEATURES OF RESTORATION DRAMA
Theaters were closed
during the puritan period. During the restoration, they re-opened
with new
types of plays and performances which were different than before. The theaters
which were indoor were much smaller than the Elizabethan ones. They didn’t have
a
platform but there was a picture frame stage with different sceneries. The
lighting was
artificial and the actors would enter from the side. The audience
was of middlemen and
upper class people. Most of the features of restoration
drama is seen even today.
A typical type of
restoration drama was the heroic play. These plays were called “tragedies”
or
“histories” but Dryden termed these plays as “Heroic drama”. These plays were
written
in the classical model of the rhymed heroic couplet and later in blank
verse. This drama
was of tragic comedy, where there would be a happy ending. The
heroes and heroines
would show great strength and nobility. This would create
admiration by the audience. The
plays would make people wonder and also excite
the imagination. The rhymed verses
elevated the play above everyday reality to
grandeur. There is a hero, heroine and villain.
The villain is the dominating
character from 1660 onwards, the plays were male dominated
but in the 1670s and
1680s the focus shifted from hero to heroine.
The success of the
plays of the Restoration period is dependent on exotic staging devices,
strange
plots and exaggerated language. Heroic dramas of the time abound in allusions
to
the political crises of the polish plot, the bill of exclusion and the
revolution of 1688. In the
eighteenth century revival of heroic drama was
attempted but it was not successful.
~Written by Lovanxa
Gomes (1313260); Edited by Srishti Banerjee (1313287)
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25 comments:
Isha 8 September 2013 at 05:59
Good job , you can understand the difference between the greek theatre and elizabeth theatre
easily . This is ruchira
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Unknown 8 September 2013 at 21:30
Thank you Lovanxa ......your effort really helped me to understand the history of Theatre .Pretty
beautiful work :)
Christina Manuel (1313224)
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Isha 9 September 2013 at 00:40
Very well differentiated....made it super easy to comprehend and understand ...:) good job !
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Unknown 9 September 2013 at 02:17
The features have been clearly and precisely stated! Good work!
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Unknown 9 September 2013 at 05:34
The content is well researched. The red line between Elizabethian theater and Greek theater was
very well explained and helped in undurstanding it better.
Aishwin Sahni 1313218
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Unknown 9 September 2013 at 05:40
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Unknown 9 September 2013 at 06:41
The entire thing is clearly explained, and is easy to understand :) the format could have been
better though, like using points or pictures or something like that. (1313291)
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Oindrila Mukherjee 9 September 2013 at 08:05
Very informative but if the group could assemble everything in a single document, it would have
been much better. :)
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Unknown 9 September 2013 at 08:35
It would have been great if Group 7 could have compiled their information especially because
their content is brief and to-the-point. This section really helps understand the age in which
Dryden wrote and the why behind his writing.
Mridula 1313238
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Isha 9 September 2013 at 08:51
the group has presented very well researched and informative work and all the topics are clearly
explained. but i agree with Oindrila and Mridula, if you had compiled it all together, it would have
been much better.
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Panda 9 September 2013 at 09:31
I'm not going to repeat the compilation comment again...
I honestly think that a picture of a theater from the Restoration period would helped to
differentiate between the one in the Elizabethan Age.
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Unknown 9 September 2013 at 10:46
informative and to the point, but the entire group could have compiled their work, it would make it
easier for us to review.
Akritee(1313270)
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Unknown 10 September 2013 at 06:44
Informative.
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Anonymous 10 September 2013 at 07:16
finally i understood the history of theatre..!! very well presented guys..!!
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Nikhil 10 September 2013 at 07:41
1. Amazing Sketches :)
2. I just felt a little less information, or information in some other form would've helped.
But otherwise amazing :)
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Unknown 10 September 2013 at 07:42
Ah, atlast! :D
so easy to understand. :D thank you Lovanxa. Great work.
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Unknown 10 September 2013 at 08:18
Very informative
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Paranormopolis 10 September 2013 at 08:43
So easy to understand but as said earlier for Group 7 a bit of creativity would have helped!! :)
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untold stories 10 September 2013 at 10:30
it was very informative.thank you lovenxia....you really did a good job.
ANN MARIA.DAVIS
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Unknown 10 September 2013 at 11:05
thanx gys...simple words used,,understood theatre easily at last..!!
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Unknown 10 September 2013 at 11:17
easily comprehensible and very informative. good work.
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Pooja Agarwal 10 September 2013 at 11:49
Informative and easy to understand.
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Anonymous 23 April 2017 at 13:28
Nice
But want notes on restoration drama s
characters tic
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Unknown 20 December 2019 at 19:22
Nice illustration
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Unknown 19 February 2020 at 07:59
Thank you so much.
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