Theatre Ch. 8
Terms
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- is a movement that spread through Europe in the very late eighteenth century and gained widespread acceptance in all the arts in the first half of the nineteenth century.
- Romanticism
- Modern theatre begins in
- 1875.
- Romanticism first movement of note
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-rebelled against neoclassicism.
-sought to free itself from strictures of neo-classicism
-emphasis on free-form picaresque stories, exotic locales, sprawlings dramatic structures - Proscenium stage came to dominate theatre production
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-built to accommodate rapid changes, flats, backdrops, acting also changed, box sets, real book cases, and fire places.
-strict rules on playwriting, acting and scenery. - remains one of the dominant modes of drama today.
- Realism
- According to ----- all human behavior has it’s origin in economic greed, class struggle, and primal amorality.
- Karl Marx
- the ----- was the most pervasive and long lived effect on modern theatre.
- realistic theatre movement
- The goal of realism
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Likeness to live
-The characters were like real people. - pioneers of realism
- Henrik Ibsen, Gerhart Hauptmann, George Bernard Shaw
- ----- should be characters
- actors
- the ----- believe that human behavior was determined entirely by genetic and social circumstances.
- naturalists
- ----- is a more extreme version of realism
- naturalism
- American realists
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Arthur Miller
Eugene O’Neill
Tennessee Williams - Worked with director and acting teacher Konstantin Stanislavsky at Moscow Art Theatre
- Anton Chekhov
- He conveyed action and characters through
- Anton Chekhov
- As a doctor, he began writing plays late in life
- Anton Chekhov