Fortunes and misfortunes of the Spanish lyric theater in the eighteenth century

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Spain's tradition of musical theater dates back to the 15th century at least. The country's composers have produced few traditional operas because of the Spanish public's dislike of sung recitatives. The Spanish musical theater is better known for the quality of its libretti than for that of its music. The renowned 16th and 17th century poets Lope de Vega and Pedro Calderon de la Barca produced musical plays called comedias. Zarzuelas, or two-act plays that are partially sung, first flourished from the mid-17th to the late-18th centuries, then declined temporarily until their 19th-century flowering.

History, Spain, Composers, Musical theater, Spanish history, Librettists, Zarzuelas, Spanish drama

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The popular theater of Samuel Foote and British national identity

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The 18th century dramatist Samuel Foote's plays show a concern with defining the national identity after the Jacobite uprising of 1745 at a time when Wales, England and Scotland were being restructured politically. Foote avoids satirizing foreigners such as the French and instead attacks Englishmen who have misappropriated foreign culture and compares them to characters who have made of that same foreign culture a recognizably British identity. Perhaps the 19th century lost interest in Foote because of its feeling against imperialism and nationalism.

18th century AD, English drama, Foote, Samuel

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Questions of identity in contemporary Hong Kong theater

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The quest for the theatrical identity of Hong Kong manifests a search for the position of Hong Kong in the world in a larger social, cultural and political perspective. With the change of the national master, Hong Kong is making an artistic effort to project its true values and identity. Zuni Icosahedron, an avant garde theater group established in 1982, tries to reflect what it means to be a Chinese person in Hong Kong and how that identity differs from that of a person of mainland China or Taiwan or Singapore.

Hong Kong, Portrayals, Identity, Theater

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