Decorum Neoclassicism
The concept of decorum is also applied to prescribed limits of appropriate social behavior within set situations.
Decorum neoclassicism. Decorum from the latin. Audience à sense of property and fair play the neoclassical style and manners emphasized the importance of the acting in ways which were natural to the occasion and seen as normal in society. That said pope in his poetical essay identified and exemplified key neoclassical principles such as wit rationality and literary decorum elegant harmony of style and.
And yet there was no self styled group no rulebook. Bellow they are described as well but in a simpler manner. Like most cultural movements neoclassicism was only labelled and defined retrospectively.
In neoclassical poetry decorum is the style and mannerism that is thought of as vital to a good and complete work. The 18th century neoclassicists inherited this theory of decorum but giving preference. Academic theorists especially those of france and italy during the 17th century argued that expression costume details and setting of a work should be as appropriate to their subject as possible.
