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The War on Great Britain
During this war when Britain was thought to be messing around with America's rights which caused the war between the two, though there was no real winner this is what lead into the Romanticism period of the arts. -
Napoleon
Napoleon, emperor of France, is defeated by allied European forces and exiled to the Isles of Elba. He was abdecated for a second time and sent out to live the rest of his day to the age of 52 on the island of Saint Helena where he had passed from stomach cancer.
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Realism and Natrualism
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), a Norwegian play-writer often called the founder of modern drama. Ibsen's plays had caused a big controversy due to some of the ending of the plays and the values. He often make plays that seemed to be a reality but did not seemed to be a reality to other people in the end it really was behaviors of people that can or was happening or could happen. This is something that he brought to light for people to see in a for of light and some people did not agree. -
Turning to the Opera
Some of the best known pieces of ,music came out at this time like for instance, the German composer who Felix Mendolssohn who overturn one of Shakespeare's " a Midsummer Night's Dream" in 1826. Another German composer Robert Schumann was know for writing his songs with and without works to his books. -
Hernani
Victor Hugo's romantic play "Hernani" caused riots in the street because of the defiance of the neoclassical rules. This is meaning that he did not stay within the guideline of purpose of drama, decorum, five fact form and purity of dramatic form verisimilitude. -
Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte his is known for his writing in sociology and positivism. These type of plays would give the audience the positive and good feeling they needed to go out in society and socialize with society and have a good normal life without the stress because something like this actually helps with that. -
"The Communist Manifesto"
"The Communist Manifesto" was published by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. This book sparks dissatisfaction with monarchies, nationalist urges and peoples desire to have more of a so called "Active Voice" in their governments. This was a very powerful play that was performed and caused him to go to London and continued to write for Engles.
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Meladrama
The first important writer of the meladramas is Frenchman Guilbert de Pixerecourt(1973-1844). He is one of the first to create such reaction of a villian being destroyed by lava on stage. Along with Dion Bouciault (1822-1890) was one of the most famous playwright of the English speaking stage between 1840 and 1890 when the first newly invented camera was used to reveal the identity of a murder in "The Octoroon" in 1859. -
The Advent of Realism
According to Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species"(1859) it argued that all species developed from a common ancestry and that this evolution of species involves those of natural selection of those best adapted to specific environmental conditions. Meaning that they were fighting about the Christianity of the show and what they were showing at the time it was not in the way of the lord and not human like and the people did not like it claiming it nonhuman.