Restoration Comedy

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by Kaia Saunders7 views·Updated Jun 16, 2021
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  1. Restoration comedy buyers, truly kyra Saunders.
  2. Imagine a time when you couldn't want you to do
  3. see your favorite movie.
  4. Watch a T.
  5. V. Show scroll through Tiktok.
  6. Go see a broadway musical.
  7. Even though I can't do that anyways.
  8. Well in the mid 17th century when king Charles the
  9. second was dethroned by Oliver Cromwell.
  10. The UK was stripped of most forms of entertainment based
  11. on his religious beliefs.
  12. Oliver bands, public stage performance for 18 years And it
  13. was until Charles was restored back in the monarchy in
  14. 1660. That theater was brought back.
  15. This is why this period is called the Restoration period.
  16. The suppression of the arts made it so when theater
  17. came back, there was a high identity of comedies.
  18. The Arrow is quite drastic and most comedies were actually
  19. focused on highly sexual situation, which later became unacceptable again
  20. in England centuries later.
  21. The Restoration Comedy are about many new opportunities for type,
  22. all types of people to express themselves.
  23. The main goal of the Communist was to mock and
  24. scrutinize society and just allow the audience to laugh at
  25. themselves. But most females didn't find it too humorous.
  26. Finally, the audience was not just selectively Royals and high
  27. class, low class and servants can now experience the wonders
  28. of theater they were eligible to watch because of the
  29. scandal in the sea of these performances because the performance
  30. were really just trying to entertain anyone.
  31. They could.
  32. Mhm. Let's talk women spreading the introduction of professional actresses.
  33. No longer was their need for cross dressing males, females
  34. could play the women's rules but they don't stop there.
  35. Many even breached rules and pretend to be males.
  36. On stage.
  37. Females brought a lot of more audience scores and the
  38. theater was considered a novelty.
  39. Mhm. After Ben was an english playwright, fictional writer and
  40. poet writer, one was the first woman to earn a
  41. living by her writing.
  42. Her play was her first play was called the forced
  43. marriage. In 1670, She wrote like comedies, lots slapstick comedies
  44. and a lot of other comedies during her, of course
  45. in the 1760s, she was commercially successful and wrote many
  46. plays. But to be an actress and a female theatergoer
  47. at the time, it must have been degraded as a
  48. woman and mocked.
  49. Hey, wait through display, woman is oblivious or over sexual
  50. and all the time the butt of the joke, male
  51. parrots would get mad at the females and they didn't
  52. laugh at the comedies and patronized women as humorless or
  53. one tone.
  54. And even when as far just contemplate if women could
  55. laugh, women could just couldn't get a break.
  56. You were seen as in modest and ill mannered and
  57. uneducated if you did anything more but a polite smile
  58. but scrutinized if you didn't, the female audience was either
  59. clueless or scandalized for the sexual innuendoes, both on stage
  60. and off.
  61. Women were.
  62. Except these ethical morals.
  63. Is this okay?
  64. And most actresses were compared to the likeness of prostitutes,
  65. humor and Restoration colony became linked to sexual assault for
  66. wonder when when one pick up and recite jokes from
  67. you, the humor from the place, men would see it
  68. as a form of consent and I'm being roused or
  69. their attempts to seduce them.
  70. Also, after comedies, men would struggle to control their libidos
  71. and thus the audience would suffer.
  72. Mhm. Restoration comedy era was a very monumental and significant
  73. period, changing the status quo forever.
  74. It brought an era of inclusiveness to enclose theater and
  75. started to break the male supremacy.
  76. In my opinion, I believe it was a good start.
  77. Females were still suppressed and victimized during this time, which
  78. was may have been worse than they were before.
  79. Although the Restoration comedies main goal was to mock and
  80. scrutinize society, females was the majority of the joke.
  81. They never were allowed to like or dislike anything without
  82. the the male gaze over seeing what they thought.
  83. Obviously this was centuries and centuries before the emails that
  84. were even seen as a person and I have to
  85. give them the benefit of doubt.
  86. But the Restoration Comedy and the Restoration Comedy helped advance
  87. the future of theater by destroying stereotype that only riches
  88. could see view theater, letting those who wanted to express
  89. and right act on stage and finally open the idea
  90. of more scandalous or humorous place.
  91. I can never imagine a time when I wouldn't be
  92. able to make the choice to participate in theater because
  93. of my gender.
  94. And I'm thankful that for the opportunities frustration, comedy has
  95. given me in the present day and to all the
  96. strong woman who made it possible.
  97. Yeah, yeah.
  98. Thank you so much for watching.
  99. I hope you have an amazing day.