Western theatre - French Neoclassicism

Western theatre

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Introduction
The origins of Western theatre
- Pre-Classical antiquity
  - Nature worship
  - Shamanism
- Ancient Egypt
- Ancient Greece
  - Dramatic genres
  - The theatre
- Ancient Rome
  - Native traditions
  - Imitation of Greek models
  - Seeds of decay
  - Mime and pantomime
Medieval theatre
- Popular traditions and secular theatre
- Liturgical drama
- Mystery cycles
- Morality plays
- Interludes
Renaissance theatre
- Classical revival
- The Renaissance stage
- Major theatrical styles, tendencies, and forms
  - Italian Neoclassicism
  - Courtly entertainments
  - Opera
  - Commedia dell’arte
  - Jesuit theatre and school drama
  - Spain’s Golden Age
  - English theatre
    - Elizabethan theatre
    - Jacobean theatre
  - German theatre
  - French Neoclassicism
  - Spread of national theatres
  - Ballet and opera-ballet
  - Restoration theatre
The 18th century theatre
- Middle-class drama
- The beginnings of American theatre
The 19th-century theatre
- The Romantic theatre
  - Melodrama
  - The early 19th century
  - Rise in the number of theatres
  - Romantic realism
  - The actor-manager
- Movement toward realism
  - Naturalism
  - Théâtre-Libre
  - Freie Bühne
  - The independent theatre
  - Moscow Art Theatre
- The American theatre
- Popular entertainment
Theatre of the 20th century and beyond
- After realism
  - The new stagecraft
  - Russia
  - Italy
  - Expressionism in Germany
  - Avant-garde in France
  - Ireland
  - Great Britain
  - United States
- Post-World War II theatre
  - Avant-garde experiments
    - The epic theatre of Brecht
    - Theatre of Fact
    - Theatre of the Absurd
    - Theatre of Cruelty
    - Poor theatre
  - United States
    - Broadway
    - Off-Broadway
    - Off-Off Broadway and regional theatre
    - African American, Asian, and Hispanic companies
    - Women’s companies and gay and lesbian theatre
  - Great Britain
    - Alternative theatre
    - National theatres
    - Government subsidies
    - Regional theatre
  - Australia, New Zealand, and Canada
  - France
  - Germany
  - Theatre under the Soviet Union
  - Other European countries

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Theatre companies in France in the early 16th century were playing a mixed fare of moralities, miracle plays, farces, and soties. The most important company was an amateur guild called the Confrérie de la Passion, which held a monopoly on acting in Paris. In 1548 it opened its own theatre, the Hôtel de Bourgogne, a long narrow room with the stage filling one end, a pit for standing spectators, and two galleries around the walls. Both auditorium and stage were lit by candles. Soon after the theatre opened, the Confrérie was forbidden by decree to perform religious plays for fear ...(100 of 31765 words)

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