Post a Comment. Asian Theatre. Natyasastra The Art of the Theatre - attributed to Bharata 2nd c. Mahabharata final form c. Ramayana final form c. Sakuntala late 4th -- early 5th c. Chitra ; The Cycle of Spring Girish Karnad Hayavadana Tang Dynasty -- - "students of the pear garden". Song Dynasty -- - storytellers. Mei Lan Fang -- The Peony Pavilion. Kan'ami β- and Zeami -- Takedo Izumi -- - Chushingura Okuni invents the form.
Modern Japanese Theatre. European-style Free Theatre, founded Kobo Abe -- Yukio Mishima -- Butoh movement begins circa - Kazuo Ohno Tadashi Suzuki -- and his company at Toga. The Trojan Women, The Bacchae , others. Shakespeare in Japan. Eighteenth Century English Theatre. German kings from Hanover. Colley Cibber -- - The Careless Husband George Farquhar -- The Beaux' Stratagem The Recruiting Officer Sir Richard Steele -- The Conscious Lovers Nicholas Rowe β The Ambitious Stepmother Ambrose Phillips β The Distrest Mother George Lillo -- - The London Merchant George Frederick Handel -- Rinaldo Rodelinda Farinelli -- Tom Thumb, or the Tragedy of Tragedies The Historical Register of Amadis, or the Loves of Harlequin and Columbine She Stoops to Conquer Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- The Rivals The School for Scandal Drury Lane continues as performance space.
Covent Garden opens Haymarket built Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg -- Charles Macklin c. Garrick as manager. Garrick as director. Miss in Her Teens The Clandestine Marriage Garrick - greatest actor of the era. Susannah Cibber β Mary Robinson β Eighteenth Century French Theatre. Paris as cultural capital. Social and political change. Rousseau and the philosophers of the Enlightenment. The French Revolution. Zaire Alzire Candide satirical novella. Game of Love and Chance Triumph of Love Denis Diderot -- β creates le drame, drama to teach moral lessons.
The Natural Son Beaumarchais -- Barber of Seville Marriage of Figaro Giovanni Nicolo Servandoni -- Henri-Louis Cain Lekain -- Eighteenth Century Italian Theatre. Italian culture exported through Europe. Venice as center of theatrical activity. The King Stag The Love of Three Oranges Carlo Goldoni -- The Servant of Two Masters The Mistress of the Inn Vittorio Alfieri -- Ferdinando Galli Bibiena β ; his three sons also designers.
Bibienas introduce scena per angolo approx. Bibiena family members spread out through Europe. Filippo Juvarra -- - creates a curvilinear use of angled scenery. Giovanni Battista Piranesi Theatre throughout the Rest of Europe during the Eighteenth Century. Europe looks to Italy and France as cultural models. Causes for the proliferation of theatre through the Germanic states. Jesuit theatre. Carolina Neuber -- German Sentimental drama. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing -- Miss Sara Sampson Minna von Barnhelm Nathan the Wise
