Drame Bourgeois

The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre | 1996 | 700+ words | Copyright

Drame Bourgeois, name given by Diderot to a type of play of which his own works are significant examples. He envisaged it as a blending of the outmoded forms of comedy and tragedy which would deal seriously with the domestic problems of the middle-class audiences now frequenting the theatre. It differed from the earlier tragédie bourgeoise as exemplified by some of the plays of Voltaire in that it usually ended happily, or at least peacefully, with a reconciliation after repentance. Rooted in the comédie larmoyante of La Chaussée, it was strongly influenced from England by the novels of Richardson and the domestic dramas of Lillo and Moore. Among its other exponents was Mercier.

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