ROMANTICISM

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ROMANTICISM

• Presented by
• Fajket Agalliu

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The Beginning

• it originated in the 18-th century in Western
  Europe and gained strength during the Industrial
  Revolution
• It was considered a movement (revolt) against
  aristocratic social and political norms of the
  Age of The Enlightenment also against the
  rationalization of nature
• influenced o lot of works in literature,
  painting, music, architecture, sculpture
• in different countries of Europe it passed
  through diverse stages

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Characteristics

• As a key movement in the Counter-Enlightenment
  often it was called the Age of Independence
• Places the individual at the center of all
  things, of every situation and experience
• Equality of people and disparagement of social
  and economic classes
• Abiding trust in natures goodness
• Emotions, feelings and instincts were more
  important than reason
• Glorification of the Natural Man- the noble
  savage-primitive and untutored personality
• A lot of attention on details and imagination as
  a pathway to truth rediscovers the folkloric
  creation, the history and the nature
• inclination for the fantastic, tragic, grotesque,
  macabre, mystery, occult, diseased and even
  satanic
• Art served a supreme purpose
• Subjectivity and ultimate truth

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Romantic character

• can belong to any social class
• is an exceptional character in extraordinary
  situations
• is confused, unsatisfied and continually fighting
  himself and his limits
• has good and bad traits, like any human being
• the artist is the supreme being, who doesnt have
  to comply to the rules

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Romantic Theater

• Poets turned their hand to writing plays
• Romantic plays tended to appeal on emotions
  rather than intellect
• Audience size increased
• Many special effects, Natural settings and Details

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George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)
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Byrons major works

• Manfred (1817)
• Cain (1821)
• Marino Faliero (1821)
• Sardanapalus (1821)
• The Two Foscari (1821)
• Heaven and Earth (1823)
• Don Juan (18191924)

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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
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Shelleys major works

• Prometheus Unbound, 1820
• Hellas (1822)
• The Cloud
• To a Skylark
• Ode to the West Wind
• Adonais (1821)
• Alastor (1816)
• The Indian Serenade
• When the Lamp Is Shattered
• Ozymandias
• The Cenci

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Victor Hugo
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Hugos major works

• Cromwell(1827)
• Amy Robsart (1828)
• Hernani(1830)
• Marion Delorme(1831)
• Le Roi s'amuse(1832)
• Lucrèce Borgia (1833)
• Marie Tudor (1833)
• Angelo, tyran de Padoue (1835)
• Ruy Blas (1838)
• Les Burgraves (1843)

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Alfred de Musset
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de Mussets major works

• André del Sarto, 1833
• Les Caprices de Marianne, 1833
• Lorenzaccio, 1833
• Fantasio, 1834
• La nuit vénitienne, 1834
• On ne badine pas avec l'amour, 1834
• Barberine, 1835

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Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
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Schillers major works

• Die Räuber (The Robbers), 1781
• Kabale und Liebe (Intrigue and Love),1784
• Don Karlos, Infant von Spanien (Don Carlos),1787
• Wallenstein,1800
• Die Jungfrau von Orleans (The Maid of Orleans),
  1801
• Maria Stuart (Mary Stuart),1801
• Turandot, 1802
• Die Braut von Messina (The Bride of Messina),
  1803
• Wilhelm Tell (William Tell), 1804
• Demetrius (unfinished at his death)

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Goethes major works

• Clavigo (play)
• Egmont (play)
• Erwin und Elmire
• Faust Part One
• Faust Part Two
• Goethe's Faust
• Götz von Berlichingen (Goethe)
• Iphigenia in Tauris (Goethe)
• Torquato Tasso (play)

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Karl Georg Büchner
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Büchners major works

• Der Hessische Landbote, 1834
• Dantons Tod, 1835 (tragedy)
• Lenz, 1835 (narrative)
• Leonce und Lena, 1836 (comedy)
• Woyzeck, 1837 (fragment)
• Lucretia Borgia, 1835 (traduction of the drama
  from Victor Hugo)
• Maria Tudor, 1835

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Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist
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Kleists major works

• The Schroffenstein Family(Die Familie
  Schroffenstein, 1803)
• Robert Guiskard
• La brocca rotta (Der zerbrochne Krug, commedia,
  1806)
• Amphitryon (commedia, 1807)
• Penthesilea (1808)
• Catherine of Heilbronn (Das Käthchen von
  Heilbronn, 1810)
• The Prince of Homburg (Prinz Friedrich von
  Homburg)

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