Zola, France, Realism, and Naturalism: Crash Course Theater #31

[@dedoubecool]

I highly recommend Zola's short stories for anyone intimitated by the idea of reading french literature 😂 they're very easy to read and yes sometimes they are kind of depressing but in a very entertaining way if that makes sense. Btw when you add an -e to a word that ends with a consonant to make it feminine it changes the pronunciation. So i's Académie française (rhymes with Thérèse) and pièce bien faite (rhymes with pet) :)

[@thebeatisdead]

My favorite lesson from the video: being rebellious but within reason. Thanks for that Hugo, although, I still haven't read or seen Les Miserable. I'm told the music is great.

[@alexiswelsh5821]

It it! One Day More and On My Own are my favorites from there.

[@Udontkno7]

You haven't even seen the movie? I love Anne Hathaway's I Dreamed I Dream, but the 10th anniversary is AMAZING. Listen to both soundtracks.

[@tuskinekinase]

The movie's kinda meh (it's pretty alright, but not as great as Chicago as musical theatre to film adaptation goes), but the musical itself is really, really great.

[@ashagerhard8906]

thedeadbeat Well the book is really long and boring but you can find short versions that are great and the film or the comedy ... no need to see them that's just American and English stuffs. Nothing to see with France or Hugo. No one knows the movie or the songs do exist, in France.

[@syystomu]

@@ashagerhard8906 I happen to love the book. It's absolutely worth reading all the way through, unabridged. Most of the so-called "boring" bits are full of clever social commentary, history and poetry.

[@choosyapplepickerproductio3594]

I am taking a college drama history class and this series has been so helpful to study to prepare for my first exam. Thank you guys for putting out such awesome, and entertaining content!

[@megancerys7260]

Erm thank you? This is my uni reading this week ❤️💕

[@KieranGarland]

Absolutely superb series. Thanks for all the hard work, folks.

[@angeltmh22]

The timing of this video is just PERFECT for me! I have an MA Drama course exam tomorrow, which includes a Naturalistic play which is Miss Julie. So, thank YOU! 🌺

[@End-Result]

This was so informative. I’ve been looking for a video like this for ages, thanks for making it!

[@unleashingpotential-psycho9433]

France is awesome.

[@carlsson614]

no it's not

[@mysterydark2997]

Personal opinion? I, personally, do like the French language and history, though.

[@lucien7804]

France WAS awesome.

[@lounafezoui4424]

There is a Korean Vampire film adaptation of the Emile Zola play that is really really great! (It’s called Thirst) I will now have to check out the original source material :) Thanks Crash Course!

[@twish1474]

Yall always come thru for me when I have tests and haven't studied!

[@fuckingwow]

Omg your doing crash courses! Oxox I just haven't watched a video of yours in so long I missed you. Glad I'm re visiting this channel

[@mr51406]

French lit student here... 1) I’ve read half of Zola’s novels, so I am a fan. But he had a tendency to melancholy and melodrama. Thérèse Raquin is too over the top for me, but it does symbolize the time. Until Feydeau, melodrama was popular. And don’t forget that many plays were adaptations of novels. Successful novels were both serialized and adapted to the theatre. 2) jp15151: since I speak with a Québécois accent, my pronunciation of Raquin would make a Parisian hurt too. So no worries! 😉

[@warriorcatskid003]

Ik allons-y is just French for let’s go, but it’ll always be a DW reference for me

[@philibertlehardi8054]

Audrey the cat nerd Me too, even though I’m french

[@redahawk6666]

I recommend Zola's novel "Germinal".

[@radagastwiz]

Theater AND History of Science got to Darwin in the same week! Excellent timing, Crash Course.

[@Darwaxion]

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make a series "History of Literature", not book by book as you do, but period by period or movement by movement, like this.

[@marlonmoncrieffe0728]

Yeah, CrashCourse: Mythology was such a wasted opportunity.

[@danulas]

Was Hector Salamanca from Breaking Bad was based on the Aunt?

[@pdruiz2005]

I said the same thing! This Zola play seems like it was the first time a character who could only communicate with eyes and fingers probably came into literature (he wrote it in the 1860s). So, my guess is that the writers of "Breaking Bad" lifted Hector Salamanca right out of this Zola work.

[@lilasky2178]

This is amazing. Whish I had found you half a year ago. Thanks!

[@ObsessiveReaderLuv]

Man, Naturalism is WAY too hardcore for me

[@aleyahmalone5012]

I kind of like it to a certain extent. It depends

[@camiloiribarren1450]

Time for France to show us what they love to do most: perform

[@alphameetpatel]

Good.

[@vincentemond5620]

I don't think one can really describe naturalism as being "more real" than realism. You say yourself that Zola see naturalism as a laboratory of hypothesis, but hypothesis are rooted in imagination (derived from truth); it's not what you know would happen, it's what you THINK would happen. Deleuze described Zola and naturalism as taking real places, real world, but spinning them out until they become original, reaching passions and pulsions inside real people. "Study temperaments and not characters." Like a colleague once said, if you can think of anything of note about the 18th century, there's Zola novel about it.

[@esmerhoanne2802]

I don’t know if you have done this yet, but I would love to see a series on art history!

[@khrisnakhristian5419]

i truly adore this dude please let us see him in the future episode

[@kramermariav]

Love this series. Keep up the good work!

[@Pfhorrest]

Wait, is the movie "Moulin Rouge" just an adaptation of "La Dame Aux Camélias"? Courtesan with a heart of gold who redeems herself and then dies of TB?

[@arx3516]

Wasn't that the Traviata?

[@tuskinekinase]

...I think both are? Or maybe the movie was adapted from the opera which was adapted from the novel/play...

[@gangurobitch]

ARX 351 La Traviata was based on La Dame aux Camélias, yes.

[@fabrisseterbrugghe8567]

Moulin Rouge is based on La Boheme which is sort of based on La Dame aux Camellias, just not quite as close to the book as La Traviata.

[@cramerfloro5936]

6:05 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH, the Lady of Camelias! Anybody else remembers Gigi Proietti's breathtaking performance?

[@vittoriahawksworth8117]

Do you mean the one with the rude puns and double entendres?

[@cramerfloro5936]

@@vittoriahawksworth8117 obviously

[@Luboman411]

At 1:25. I've been studying the French impressionists starting with the first ones--Pissarro, Monet and Renoir. This bit here sounds like the start of impressionistic painting. "Everyone knows that color and light are lost in a simple reflection." That's the thing the impressionists were trying to get away from--the established, shiny, realistic artifice of the Salon paintings, which they found too, well, weakly reflective. "...must be a concentrating mirror, which, instead of weakening, concentrates and condenses the colored rays, which makes of a mere gleam a light, and of a light a flame." This is what impressionists started to do, with Monet and Renoir in the late 1860s painting marvelous revolutionary prisms of color that "concentrated and condensed the colored rays" at la Grenouillère on the Seine River. Fascinating that maybe Monet, Renoir or Pissarro had read this preface from Victor Hugo written decades before and decided to put it in action with paintings.

[@Heavy2deep]

Thank you, Sir. Beautiful!

[@wormswithteeth]

When are you doing the history of opera???

[@dysonsquared]

Each volume surpasses the previous and your work is supreme, as always, sir! Now if only you could get the hang of French pronunciation...yeesh. Perhaps one of the crew has enough to walk you through?Lol, but no, really dude.

[@Zaftique]

Grand Guignol coming soon? ;D It's like in-person Tarantino!

[@ms.rstake_1211]

Yaasssss! I was scared it wouldn't show today.

[@sarahabdel-monem3794]

tnx a lot. it's really benefit

[@aleyahmalone5012]

Omg I didn't know this sort of crash course existed 😍

[@ashagerhard8906]

My French class ... I am going to pass my bac of French this year... just going to die but thanks for this video

[@HalfpennyTerwilliger]

I would advise you to do your own research to complement them, that's the second video I've seen about French culture and they kinda skim the surface and can either skip important context elements (here the "battle" of Hernani is very much dramatized) or be downright wrong on important "details" (like when the Renaissance takes place in a previous video). Also, they really should check French name's pronunciation.

[@ashagerhard8906]

HalfpennyTerwilliger Thank you, yes I know I am actually French so no troubles on pronounciation and I will do it at school too... I was just thanking them to do such a work to present our culture and in general all Europeans cultures really good 😊

[@vrixphillips]

hoping there will be separate videos on Epic Theatre and Theatre of Cruelty lol

[@Calin0uchka]

This is really interesting, thanks :).

[@SimsMusicals]

shout out to those closed captions for spelling "Hernani" as "Air Nanny"--would make for a very different play, I'm sure.

[@LarisaDiana]

Fascinating series.When is the next episode released?

[@lillinablue]

Fantastique 👍 !

[@syystomu]

3:26 I'm pretty sure Hugo specifically DIDN'T hire people to come and applaud Hernani. From what I heard, it was the exact opposite. The convention at the time was that the theatre would hire professional applauders called the "claque" to clap and show their appreciation for the show in order to boost its popularity. But when Hernani came out, most of the claque refused to work for Hernani since they considered it below their dignity or whatever, so Hugo had to ask his friends and allies to replace them and to keep coming in as the neoclassicists were bringing in their people to boo and laugh at the piece. (Of course this whole scandal helped the play enormously.)

[@geoffreywinn4031]

Cool video!

[@mareslsl]

You guys never mention Brazilian authors like Machado de Assis, an amazing naturalist. You guys would be impressed.

[@ilaydakohl5688]

Allons-y indeed! Any other Whovians here?

[@milkbhun]

On est champion

[@childlifeproductions6750]

Love your educational videos if you ever need a Volunteer Ambassador to share your videos please let me know.

[@sonderlateka]

I hope you are gonna discuss Henrik Ibsen.. Right? RIGHT?!

[@cramerfloro5936]

Ugh, here in Italy Naturalism inspired Verism, with Giovanni Verga. Not very happy go lucky either

[@bulldoggirl3008]

Not hating, but I miss John Green

[@stop_calling_me_willy2743]

Soooo I’m kind late to this channel anyone mind explaining what happened to John green and crash course world history?

[@carpediem5468]

Please do different kind of theatres.

[@Daruqe]

5:10 (Someone needs to tell Mike what grammar really is)

[@ariannamonson4092]

Dang Thérèse is very Macbethian

[@m.a6667]

Hi guys, if u read this, please recommend me with a book about English movements

[@adaode3413]

And suddenly I understood perfectly what they tried to teach me in school. I want to more of this knowledge

[@doomedmessenger]

Why does that sound a little like reality tv?

[@bsinita_wokeone]

Realism and Naturalism Yes it's kinda is but not because it truer but more dramatic, and better yet it's from mostly frictional stories.

[@peet315]

I'm subscribed, these kind of videos don't show up on my youtube landing page, instead bunch of recommended garbage

[@abdullahcanunver8386]

Üstad

[@miamia22]

It's Alexandre Dumas not de Dumas

[@adrienneandcarlie]

Seinfeld _ naturalism😐

[@sotik7535]

Nowadays Zola is a French rapper

[@sarahhess464]

realism and naturalism are completely different concepts and the reason people refuse to use certain words and labels and i understand people been trying to change the meaning of certain words and labels and another reason my preferred tongue is not English and realism is a preference to not embracing a fiction and the reason my tribe preference to exchange information in a tongue other then English and sometime refuse to teach or allow their children to speak English until older and will cause less problem with parent child communication and the reason for hours of home schooling each day when forced to use a public school and their taught the home schooling is more important then the public schooling and much of what is taught is not provided in the public school system anyway and this includes the game of races,culture and different types of apprenticeships but go-head and do what you want i am not your master nor your kin nor do i have any desire to do your thinking for you nor will i teach you what to think or how to think.

[@xerex21212]

First! Wow I'm actually early.

[@jp15151]

It hurt everytime you tried to say "Raquin".

[@tsamourasj]

Amazing series and episode but the pronunciation of many French words leaves a lot to be desired and it is a bit distracting.

[@MarkieDood]

Tfw History of Theater works its way up to Darwin before History of Science does.

[@AshishGupta-ql9lq]

J'accuse

[@orsino88]

Scribe's name: approximately Oo-zhen Screeb. Three syllables, not five. No Francophones on staff, mm?

[@ashagerhard8906]

Graham Christian approximatively Eujen Scrib

[@motivationalvideos8633]

2nd

[@floraflorita1875]

3 rd

[@lawtonhinely4004]

Second

[@cristianmiranda895]

I'm so sad, this channel is dying

[@maxmusterman3371]

Life is long and boring.

[@arx3516]

Sometimes it's not even that long.

[@warriorcatskid003]

Ik allons-y is just French for let’s go, but it’ll always be a DW reference for me