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33 Cards in this Set
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French social realist. Playwright of comic satires
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Aigier, Emile
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Their tour of Caste, 1867 set theatrical traveling standards
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Bancroft, Marie & Squire
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His The Vultures was the peak of early French Naturalism
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Becque, Henri
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French star actress best in passionate & seductive roles
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Bernhardt, Sarah
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A truly cosmopolitan “local color” playwright: The Octoroon
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Boucicault, Dion
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Brought Bjornstjerne Bjornson & National theatre to Bergen
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Bull, Olle
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Superb director for the Meiningen Players
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Chronegk, Ludwig
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Social realist (positivist) philosopher
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Comte, Auguste
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Late 19th Century star actor: The Art of Acting
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Coquelin, Constant-Benoit
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Early researcher into body language and science of acting
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Delsarte, Francois
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French early realist: The Lady of the Camellias
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Dumas, fils, Alexandre
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The method of placing flats on stage in any position
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Free Plantation
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Owner/Designer/Manager of The Meiningen Players
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Georg II
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D’Oyly Carte built Savoy for their operettas
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Gilbert and Sullivan
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One Henry Irving’s Great designers
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Harker, Joseph
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The Father of Modern Realism: Ghost
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Ibsen, Henrik
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Innovative Lyceum actor/manger; Ellen Terry his leading lady
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Irving, Henry
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Vienna director who brought new standards of detail to stage
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Laube, Heninrich
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First French Director to push for stage business/ realism
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Montigny, Adolphe
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French operetta composer: Orpheus in the Underworld
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Offenbach, Jacques
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Romantic realist playwright: The Storm
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Ostrovsky, Alexander
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Produced bare-stage Shakespeare in London
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Phelps, Samuel
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His “cup and saucer plays” added business to Bancroft’s plays
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Robertson, Thomas W.
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French Playwright: Cyrano de Bergerac
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Rostand, Edmund
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French playwright and father of the “well-made” play technique
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Scribe, Eugene
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The father of Russian stage realism: Fine acting teacher
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Shchepkin, Mikhael
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Swedish experiment and naturalism playwright: The Father
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Strindberg, Johan August
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Drama used as an instrument of social change
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Thesis Play
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Russian Romantic playwright of histories: Tsar Fyodor Ivanovich
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Tolstoy, Alexei
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“Brutal” Russian realist: The Power of Darkness
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Tolstoy, Leo
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Built Bayreuth Schauspielhaus; coined “gesamtkunstwerk”
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Wagner, Richard
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Naturalism’s first theorist: Therese Raquin
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Zola, Emile
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Four Tenets of Realism:
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• 1.) Only Contemporary life can be observed
• 2.) Art should depict a physical world • 3.) Truth can only be experienced through observation • 4.) Artist should be objective |
