Word: classicized
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Romanticism brought into French literature fine sensibility and a feeling for art and for history. Its excesses and faults are due to the fact that this was a period of crisis. This was a crisis during which classic realism was developing into modern realism...
Romanticism was most successful in lyric poetry; naturally it was least so on the stage. Classic tragedy was dead. Shakespeare and Schiller were used as models. Mme. de Stael wrote "L'Allemagne," Stendhal wrote "Racine et Shakespeare." Victor Hugo in his "Preface de Cromwell" defined the drama as a mixture of the tragic and the comic with an historic stage setting and with out the three unities. But these are not the real signs of the romantic drama. In fact there was a style of play which was increasing in popular favor as tragedy declined; this was the melodrama. Romantic...
...classic ideal is marked by the predominance of reason over the other faculties. Hence the three characteristics of classic literature of France. I. It is impersonal; it considers what is general, common to all men; it does not take differences between individuals into account.- II. It has no comprehension of the diversity of various epochs, and does not take an historic point of view. III. It does not have a feeling for the exterior of things; it is not picturesque. This classic ideal was worn out towards the end of the 18th century; another was to take its place...
...sensibility, humor, and kindliness. These characteristics are also to be seen in his most famous works, as "The Deserted Village," "She Stoops to Conquer," and "The Vicar of Wakefield." From these works Mr. Copeland read a few passages to show that Goldsmith was just passing out of the classic period of English literature...
Aside from the scholarly attainment necessary for the production of any French classic, the purely mechanical difficulties of providing a suitable stage setting in Sanders Theatre have been so successfully overcome that those who are not familiar with the details of the work would be apt to underestimate the achievement...