ASPECTS JURIDIQUES DANS LE THEATRE COMIQUE DU XIXE SIECLE
ASPECTS JURIDIQUES DANS LE THEATRE COMIQUE DU XIXE SIECLE

Summary/Abstract: In the Romanian comic theatre of the nineteenth century, placed under the direct influence of the French theatre, one of the main themes approached is the marriage. The declaration of love, the cohabitation, the marriage itself, the extramarital love, from the proposal to adultery, or divorce usually avoided, are important elements of the sensational boulevard European theatre life, with great success to the public. The Romanian theatre takes over these elements and adapts them to the local realities, reflecting a former mentality, with accompanying legislative restrictions. The moralizing tendency of the time impose the restrictions on the development of the dramatic action, the definition of the comic theatre impose that the facts be presented as a joke and the types of characters impose to be chosen depending on the success stage. Thus according to the poetics of sensational drama, all sorts of characters introduced in diverse dramas, are taken from a tiny world with a bourgeois social inferior or medium identity: girls to be married, parents who arrange their marriages, adulterous women, dowry hunters, not serious pretenders, parvenus, misers etc. The insufficiency of laws or the temporal and / or social inadequacy regarding cohabitation, marriage, adultery or divorce appears in a very special way of the comic theatre of the time.

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