The theater in the Victorian period:

Development of Theme

Introduction:

Acquaintance also like The Second English Renaissance, the Victorian age, was owing to the Queen Victory ( 1837-1901 ). This reign included many periods.

The Queen Victory, when died his husband, Albert, became isolated and she got obsessed for the mourning, which as it will have influence in the intention of Victorian age. Victorian period was very marked for the adaptations of Charles Dickens's work ( Story of Christmas ).

Context of epoch: ( S. XIX )

         In the politic and social space, he emphasizes the Marxism, the Socialism, the feminism ... Victorian age is  characterized for the bourgeoisie's ascent. The women have access to culture and begin to write and to edit; as well as they earn some money.

The transition of Victorian age a century XX considers the period of maximum apogee of the British theater.

         In religion, God does not represent answer to the human problems. Some priests refuse flatly to scientific advance.

         In science, evolution explained the dynamics of the universe. The Church he was opposing to the science because the people was believing in those times that God was who he was moving the Universe. knowledge left remote to the faith and it leant in the science.

Characteristics of the Victorian theater:

If in the period previous the stock and fictitious sentiments, in this period existed a drama on three acts, is a new focus of spontaneity and new ideology.

They make inventions at the theater. The actors control essays. The directors are the responsible ones belonging to dramatic realization.

The first Victorian theater was addressed to an audience that asks for the emotional impact, more than the intellectual, ( melodrama ).

This it was  focused in theater delaying, due to the middle-class growth ( bourgeoisie ). The bourgeoisie was trying to entertain and to teach same time.

Influences of the Victorian theater:

The Victorian England, a period becomes of apogee and expansion of culture. Victorian current combines the Neoclassicism and the Romanticism. She was the predecessor from Modernism, although the modern authors see to the Victorian like pent-up beings, past fashionable, strict morally and ignorant persons.

Important authors of Victorian period:

The pioneers of this period were Boucicault, author and actor of great sagacity and intuition, and T. Taylor.

In theatre there was not a true resurgence even the last few decades of century and comes given for the figure of an author like Oscar Wilde ( 1854-1900 ).

         "...hacia mediados del siglo XIX emerge en Inglaterra una forma dramática de tendencia realista que, apoyada por la influencia de Ibsen, lleva a un resurgimiento del teatro inglés con obras que desarrollan problemas familiares o presentan contenidos sociales"

         Oscar Wilde is born on 1854 in Dublin. He writes his first theatrical work,"Vera" in 1882, which as he failed . In 1895 he attained the success with "An Ideal Husband", and "The importance of being Earnest".

         Another author put on the front, among others many, went Charles Dickens . He was born on 1812 in Portsmouth. His first theatrical work was"Misron the sultan of Indian", 1820, and his more premature work was "The stratagems of Roweno", which as he wrote with only 16 elderly years.