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    The document discusses Baroque theater between the 15th and 19th centuries. Key developments included new stage technologies and visual effects that made plays more dramatic. Baroque theater is known more for its elaborate architecture and stage designs than its playwrights. It originated in Rome but spread across Europe, featuring lavish costumes and special effects that entertained aristocracy. Plays covered politics, science, and morality. Women began participating as actresses during this period.

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    The document discusses Baroque theater between the 15th and 19th centuries. Key developments included new stage technologies and visual effects that made plays more dramatic. Baroque theater is known more for its elaborate architecture and stage designs than its playwrights. It originated in Rome but spread across Europe, featuring lavish costumes and special effects that entertained aristocracy. Plays covered politics, science, and morality. Women began participating as actresses during this period.

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    The document discusses Baroque theater between the 15th and 19th centuries. Key developments included new stage technologies and visual effects that made plays more dramatic. Baroque theater is known more for its elaborate architecture and stage designs than its playwrights. It originated in Rome but spread across Europe, featuring lavish costumes and special effects that entertained aristocracy. Plays covered politics, science, and morality. Women began participating as actresses during this period.

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    15 -19
    Century

    Baroque
    Theater

    A period of dramatic and artistic style


    - Most technologies used in theaters are invented during the
    baroque theater age.
    - Developments of Visual effects and stage designs made the
    plays a lot more dramatic.
    - Baroque theatre age is more known for its architecture rather
    than its playwrights.

    Its epicenter being Rome,


    it spread all across
    Europe.

    The
    style ofofthe
    It Baroque
    was a mean
    theater
    was unusualthe
    for the
    entertaining
    time,
    often lively and
    aristocracy.
    considered vulgar due to gaudy
    costume designs, elaborate
    stage settings, and special
    effects.

    No designated seats for


    audiences in theatres for
    everyone.

    Playwrights of Baroque theatre,


    such as William Shakespeare and
    Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere,
    wrote plays about politics, the
    universe, or the propriety of
    private life.

    It became socially acceptable


    for women to participate in
    Prior
    to Baroque
    theatre, the
    Baroque
    theatre
    backdrops and scene settings were
    productions.
    They
    could even
    simplistic and did
    not change.
    During
    be
    the heroines.
    Baroque period, stage directors
    began to employ artists to paint the
    backdrops for various scenes in their
    plays.

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