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    The document summarizes scenes from the play "Loveplay" by Moira Buffini, which depicts different historical periods through various scenes. Each scene provides some key details about the social, political, economic, and cultural aspects of periods ranging from the Classical Age to the 1960s. Some of the major themes and events highlighted include the decline of the Roman Empire; the rise of Christianity and power of the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages; major figures and developments during the Renaissance and Enlightenment; the emphasis on emotion and imagination during the Romantic Age; unemployment during the 1930s; and the sexual revolution and rise of recreational drug use in the 1960s.

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    The document summarizes scenes from the play "Loveplay" by Moira Buffini, which depicts different historical periods through various scenes. Each scene provides some key details about the social, political, economic, and cultural aspects of periods ranging from the Classical Age to the 1960s. Some of the major themes and events highlighted include the decline of the Roman Empire; the rise of Christianity and power of the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages; major figures and developments during the Renaissance and Enlightenment; the emphasis on emotion and imagination during the Romantic Age; unemployment during the 1930s; and the sexual revolution and rise of recreational drug use in the 1960s.

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    Loveplay by Moira Buffini

    General Research
    Scene One, The Classical Age (AD 79):

    • Late Antiquity – period of transition from classical antiquity to the middle ages, roughly
    between 3rd and 8th centuries AD
    • Christianity became legalised
    • Decline of living standards, technology and population
    • Commercial and specialised production were transformed
    • More economic opportunities created
    • Social life became more complex as the relationship between rural and urban regions
    became intricate.

    Scene Two, The Dark Age (544):

    • Fall of the Roman Empire, regression of social, political and economic climates
    • Small kingdoms fought for existence and expansion
    • Because of the general environment of insecurity, people were forced to accept the
    tyrannical feudal system and serfdom.

    Scene 3, The New Millennium (1099):

    • Catholic Church became the most powerful institution of the medieval period

    • Ordinary people across Europe had to give a “tithe” (10 percent of their yearly earnings) to
    the church
    • Building churches, making art and creating literature were a way of showing devotion. Most
    cathedrals were built in a Romanesque style.

    Scene Four, The Renaissance (1584):

    • The Renaissance literally translates as ‘rebirth’. It is a period of roughly 400 years which
    transitioned from the middle Ages to modern history.
    • Christopher Columbus and Vespucci’s expeditions led to ground breaking revelations
    • Michelangelo created the infamous ‘David’, and Da Vinci the Mona Lisa.
    • Artists held the belief that per ection was attainable - ‘Perfect Renaissance Man’.

    Scene Five, The Enlightenment (1735)

    • The Enlightenment’s roots are usually traced to 1680s England, where in the span of
    three years Isaac Newton published his “Principia Mathematica” (1686) and John
    Locke his “Essay Concerning Human Understanding” (1689)—two works that
    provided the scientific, mathematical and philosophical toolkit for the
    Enlightenment’s major advances.
    • It was a time of religious (and anti-religious) innovation, as Christians sought to
    reposition their faith along rational lines and deists and materialists argued that the
    universe seemed to determine its own course without God’s intervention.
    • The old way of life was represented by superstition, an angry God, and absolute
    submission to authority. The thinkers of the Age of Reason ushered in a new way of
    thinking. This new way championed the accomplishments of humankind. Individuals
    did not have to accept despair. Science and reason could bring happiness and
    progress.
    Scene Six, The Romantic Age (1823)

    • Romantics found delight notions of romantic love, mystery and superstition, and placed an
    emphasis upon imagination as a gateway to transcendent experience and spiritual truth.
    • They sought regeneration -- a regeneration we can liken to that of the medieval heretic or
    saint. They favoured selfless enthusiasm, an enthusiasm which was an expression of faith
    and not as the product of utilitarian calculation. Emotion -- unbridled emotion -- was
    celebrated irrespective of its consequences.
    Scene Eight, The Age of Austerity (1932)

    ➢ The 1930s are remembered for mass unemployment.


    ➢ Slowly women were breaking down old attitudes. The war had given ordinary
    working women an alternative to domestic employment. They found they liked
    working on the land, in factories and on buses.
    ➢ The 1920s was the flowering of modern art, modern music, and freewheeling sex. It
    was when the modern nudist movements began, and the pornographic film industry,
    as well as pornographic novels and “French postcards.”

    Scene Nine, The Age of Innocence (1969)


    ➢ By the 1960s, the first teenage generation free from conscription emerged in Britain.
    Young people were finally given a voice and freedom to do what they wanted.
    ➢ Recreational drugs were also synonymous with the Sixties and became more
    commonly used in the latter part of the decade. Images of the Woodstock festival
    show people high on marijuana and LSD, dancing in fields with paint on their face
    and their hair flowing free. It was very difficult for anyone in show business to avoid
    becoming involved in drugs in some way and as easily influenced young people
    looking for fun, many were encouraged to follow their idols and take hallucinogenic
    drugs.
    ➢ “There were two added factors that made promiscuity so difficult to avoid. Firstly,
    there was very little awareness of sexually transmitted diseases – HIV wasn’t yet an
    issue – and very few men, now that the pill was on the scene, had any clue about
    how to put on a condom. Again, there was even less reason to say ‘no’ to sex, and
    the result was that lots of us girls spent the entire 60s in tears, because however one
    tried to separate sex from love, we’d been brought up to associate the two; so every
    time we went to bed with someone, we’d hope it would lead to something more
    permanent…and each time it never did.” - Virginia Ironside
    Bibliography

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_antiquity
    https://vcla.org.uk/about-late-antiquity/
    http://www.thefinertimes.com/Middle-Ages/the-dark-ages.html
    http://www.history.com/topics/middle-ages
    https://www.biographyonline.net/facts-about-the-renaissance/
    https://www.history.com/topics/enlightenment
    http://www.ushistory.org/us/7a.asp
    https://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist255/jkr/romanticism.html
    http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/lecture16a.html
    http://www.localhistories.org/1930slife.html
    http://www.fashion-era.com/1920s_life_between_the_wars.htm
    https://www.quora.com/What-was-sex-like-in-the-more-conservative-decades-such-
    as-the-1920s-1930s-etc
    https://www.history.com/topics/1960s
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-1346813/The-flip-1960s-sexual-
    revolution-We-paid-price-free-love.html

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