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Some characteristics of drama in the eighteenth century were:

  • Shakespearean plays were popular, but were often adapted.
  • Others types of plays included operatic ballads and human tragedies.
  • Rationalism and sentimentalism were popular, rising from a change from faith in God to faith in man.
  • A forestage was used, and was where the acting took place.
  • The audience could pay extra to sit on the stage.
  • Women were permitted to be in the plays.
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