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    Augustan drama can refer to the dramas of Ancient Rome during the reign of Caesar Augustus, but it most commonly refers to the plays of Great Britain in...
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  • literature (ancient Rome) Augustan prose Augustan poetry Augustan Reprint Society Augustan literature Augustan History Augustan drama Augustan Society A current...
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    drama has also developed in Japan in forms such as shingeki and the Takarazuka Revue. Theatre portal Antitheatricality Applied Drama Augustan drama Christian...
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    The term Augustan literature is often used for Augustan drama, Augustan poetry and Augustan prose in the period 1700–1740s. The term Augustan refers to...
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    The term "Augustan literature" is often used for Augustan drama, Augustan poetry and Augustan prose in the period 1700–1740s. The term "Augustan" refers...
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    Augustan literature (sometimes referred to misleadingly as Georgian literature) is a style of British literature produced during the reigns of Queen Anne...
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  • In Latin literature, Augustan poetry is the poetry that flourished during the reign of Caesar Augustus as Emperor of Rome, most notably including the works...
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  • winning first prize, came second. The play was rediscovered with Rome's Augustan drama; again in the 16th-century; then remained part of the tragedic repertoire...
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    and she died soon after." During the 18th century, the conventions of Augustan drama encouraged far less intense, more sentimentalised and decorous depictions...
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    Augustan prose is somewhat ill-defined, as the definition of "Augustan" relies primarily upon changes in taste in poetry. However, the general time represented...
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    arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch. It is one of the watershed plays in Augustan drama and is the only example of the once thriving genre of satirical ballad...
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  • Anglo-Irish drama in the 18th century also includes Charles Macklin (?1699–1797), and Arthur Murphy (1727–1805). The age of Augustan drama was brought...
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  • of Greek mythology Atlantean – Atlas; also Atlantic Augustan – Caesar Augustus (as in Augustan drama) Augustinian – St. Augustine (as in Augustinian Order)...
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    in the Colony of New South Wales, which is now Australia. The age of Augustan drama was brought to an end by the censorship established by the Licensing...
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  • on the crown. Wikiquote has quotations related to Henry Carey. Augustan drama Augustan literature Carey, Henry. Chrononhotonthologos online. E-text. Retrieved...
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  • Tory point of view and became one of the most important figures in Augustan drama, although not for his successes. His Gustavus Vasa (1739) has the distinction...
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    gestures and melodrama. Neoclassical theatre encompasses the Restoration, Augustan, and Johnstinian Ages. In one sense, the neo-classical age directly follows...
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    Restoration spectacular (category British drama)
    mechanisms and lighting effects typical of the period.[citation needed] Augustan drama Hume, 205 Hume, 205. Milhous, 43. Hume, 205–206. Milhous, 45–48. Prologue...
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    Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot epitomized the spirit of the age. The term Augustan literature derives from authors of the 1720s and 1730s themselves, who...
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    managers responded to the increasing move for "spectacle" plays (see Augustan drama for context) and quick productions with low costs, and thus the triumvirate...
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  • the revival of Roman culture attempted to recapture the spirit of the Augustan writers. The Dutch Latinist Johannes Secundus, for example, included Catullus-inspired...
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    traditional Restoration and Augustan drama. Many of Luckless's situations are similar to those found within various traditional British dramas, including Buckingham's...
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    Rome, a statesman, dramatist, and in one work, satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature. Seneca was born in Colonia Patricia Corduba in...
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    Vintage Classics, p. 252. Ronald Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy (1987), 314. Syme, Ronald (1989). The Augustan Aristocracy (illustrated and revised ed.)...
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    Senecan tragedy (category Drama)
    writings. It is possible that the style was more directly influenced by Augustan literature. Moreover, Seneca's tragedies were probably written to be recited...
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    Press, ISBN 9780190231606 Cairns, Francis (2006), Sextus Propertius: The Augustan Elegist, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521864572 Dunstan, William...
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    propaganda war have shaped the popular perceptions about Cleopatra from Augustan-period literature through to various media in modern times. Cleopatra was...
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    music, architecture, warfare, and scholarship. The motto comes from the Augustan poet Vergil, writing in the late 1st century BC. His collection of Eclogues...
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     193–194. Barrett 2015, p. 197-199. Lott, John. B., The Neighborhoods of Augustan Rome, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 107-117, 172. ISBN 0-521-82827-9...
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    of Domina, played by actress Joelle. Nepos, Atticus 12 Ronald Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy (1987), 314. Suetonius, Tiberius 7 Seager 2005, p. 20. Tacitus...
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