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182 Cards in this Set
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What is the mother of the arts?
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Dance
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What was it developed with? to do what?
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Religion
Explain things they couldn't understand |
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Requirements of drama
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Plot
People assume a character A magic place Audience |
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What does drama mean?
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"I do"
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What makes art work?
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Empathy
Aesthetic distance need a balance of both |
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Beliefs of greece |
Individuals
Balance-emotional, irrational, physical VS. intellectual, organizational, rational |
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God of Gods |
Zeus
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God of theatre, wine, and fertility |
Dionysus
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Tragos |
Goat
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Tragody |
song of the goat
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what is a Tragedy |
Sad song
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What did they drink during the festival of Dionysus? |
Blood then Wine
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Comedy |
Humorous/light song
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Who wrote plays? |
high ranking citizens
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All violence was..... |
off-stage
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Chorus did what? |
didn't sing, were an actor, talked in unison, introduce the action, was a spectator, set mood, add color and movement, divide the play
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1st greek drama When? Where? |
534 B.C.
Dionysia |
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Thespis |
1st actor
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4 playwrites |
Aeschylus
Sopocles Euripides Aristophanes |
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Aeschylus |
Tragedy
Orestian Trilogy |
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Sophocles |
Tragedy
Oedipus Rex |
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Tragedy definition |
When a great person falls from power because of a tragic flaw in his character
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Hubris |
having to much pride in ones self
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Euripides |
father of modern social tragedy
Medea Trojan Woman |
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Aristophanes |
Comedy
Lysistalta |
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Periaktoi |
3 sided prop, scenery
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eccyclema |
wheeled platform
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Deus ex Machina |
"god of the machine"
contrived ending- cheesy/corny |
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Beliefs |
Power and Strength
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Ludi |
festival
like the festival of dionysus |
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How many days |
54 then 101
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Comedies have... |
no chorus & scenic division
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Colosseum |
criminals, animals, gladiator
vulgar near end of their rule 50,000 people |
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Circus Maximus |
Chariot races
all-day dangerous 250,000 people |
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Nav Machia |
Fake naval battles
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Who wrote plays |
slaves
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Violence was... |
on-stage
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"Circus & Bread" |
if you entertain them and feed them they will not rebel
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Plautus |
Introduced slapstick
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Terrance |
slave given freedom
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Seneca and principles |
wealthy- closet dramas
Very long, many ghosts, violent action was onstage, hero dies. Shakespeare followed his ideas |
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Fall of Rome Why? |
476 A.D.
Christianity, spread thinly, corrupt attitudes, banned theatre (mortal sin) |
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Who could read |
priests
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only religion |
christianity
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only source of entertainment |
the church
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language of the church |
latin
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church reopens theatre accidently to.... |
act out the scriptures
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Quem Quaritis |
reopened theatre
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Play type categories |
Miracle
morality mystery |
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Homme d' evil |
devil
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Mystery |
bible
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Miracle |
saints & martyrs
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Morality |
Good vs. Evil
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Guilds |
overlooked by church
traveling on wagons Heaven-Earth-Hell short stories |
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2 new forms of entertainment |
Zoo
Circus |
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Commedia dell 'arte |
traveling
performed on wagon "Like gypsies" |
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CDA characters |
el capitano
papa pantelone pierrot columbine harlequin zannis |
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kinds of plays |
SACRED
SECULAR |
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famous Secular play |
robin hood
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where did it start |
italy
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rediscovery of....... |
arts and science
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city had the most great plays |
London
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Henry VIII |
couldn't get an heir
made himself- head of the church had many wives- killed 1 |
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3 Play writes |
Christopher Marlow
Ben Johnson Shakespeare |
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Christopher Marlow |
tragedy
Dr. Faustus stabbed in the head |
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Arch villain |
nothing redeeming about him
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Ben Johnson |
satires & comedies
Volpone was a thief |
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Shakespeare |
greatest writer of all time
37 plays 154 sonnets no education |
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what makes WS so good |
Great philosopher
great poet created great characters of every social level |
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James Burbage |
built 1st theatre
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Globe theatre |
shakespeare's
vocal audience flag represented plays open roof |
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Oliver Cromwell |
overthrew the monarchy
shut down theatres rich people fled to France |
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audience was... |
aristocratic
common man did not matter |
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# of theatres |
2
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new comic forms |
ballad opera
burlesque farce |
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3 types |
theatre of..
entertainment realism disillusionment |
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theatre of entertainment
categories |
melodrama
romantic comedy farce musicals |
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theatre of realism
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mental stimulation new ideas
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theatre of disillusionment
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frustrated outcry of the state of the human condition
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melodrama |
suspense & excitement
happy endings |
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Melodrama characters |
hero
heroine villain vamp |
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modern melodramas |
soap operas
murder mysteries physcological thrillers |
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playwrites |
Anton Chekhov
Oscar Wilde |
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Anton Chekhov |
russian
the marriage proposal |
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Oscar Wilde |
19th century's greatest wit
The Importance of being Ernest |
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age of.... similar to... |
rational & scientific ideas
renaissance |
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playwrites |
Emile Zola
Henrik Ibsen George Bernard Shaw |
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Emile Zola |
french
romantic illusions were abolished naturalist/realist |
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Henrik Ibsen |
-Norweigan
Peer Gynt A Dolls House |
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REAL
George bernard shaw |
-Irish
Arms of the man superman pygmalian |
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Theatre capitals |
NYC
London Paris |
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who produced the most plays |
america
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Samuel Becket |
waiting for Godot
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Eugene O'Neill |
-tragedies
-Pulitzer prize-1957 long days journey into night the iceman cometh |
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Tennessee Williams |
-suffering & physcological ills of our time
The glass menagerie Cat on a hot tin roof a street car named desire |
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Thornton Wilder |
Our town- greek chorus
Skin of our teeth the matchmaker |
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Arthur miller |
-forces that destory people
death of a salesman the crucible after the fall -married to marilyn monroe -beauty & the brain |
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Lillian Hellman |
-socially conscious
-hollywood blacklist-communist Children's hour Little foxes |
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American musical comedy? where did it come from? |
americas only contribution to drama
evolved from opera |
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musicals |
began in the 20's
not popular in the 60's Broadway |
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EX. musicals |
grease
my fair lady fiddler on the roof spamalot |
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over past couple of years became more appealing to kids |
spring awakening
in the heights american idiot lion king bloody bloody andrew jackson |
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Andrew Lloyd Weber what made him famous |
-british
-w/ tim rice made "Rock operas" Joseph & the amazing....-short didn't make him famous Jesus Christ Superstar-most famous- controversial Cats- poem by T.S. Elliot Evita Phantom of the Opera |
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New entertainment |
dinner theatre
historical reinactments comedy clubs audience involvement "Extravaganzas" |
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"Extravaganzas" |
cirque du soleil
stomp riverdance blue man group |
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movies and books became..... |
plays
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Neil Simon |
-kept broadway alive in 60's
-comedy The odd couple Brighton Beach Memoirs |
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Stephen Soundheim |
into the woods
west side story |
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August Wilson |
-10 plays, 1 for each century
-beloved -theatre named after him Fences |
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MN |
more theaters per capita then NY
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Theatre was started by.... |
cavemen
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why did theatre start? |
to communicate
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area to the side of the stage |
parados
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prop room? |
skene
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circle in middle? |
orkestra
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table in circle? |
altar
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seating |
theatron
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behind audience was? |
Mt. Olympus
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Play in church |
trope
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Platea |
platform to stand on
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Mansion |
scenery that goes behind the platea
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2nd theatre |
skene- in-out
orkestra no altar |
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3rd theatre |
semicircle orkestra
skene- country-throne-city no altar |
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Proscenium Stage |
big box
2-doors on side of stage curtain |
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Inn |
circular
commedia dell 'arte sometimes performed there multiple levels |
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stage |
raked
rich people in stands groundlings- people on ground-poor |
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The marriage proposal
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anton chekhov
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devils run wild |
halloween
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plays performed on |
pageant wagons
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life revolved around....
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the church
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Dr faustus
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Christopher Marlow
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Volpone
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Ben Johnson
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Clowns
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harlequin
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acrobats
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zannis
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the importance of being ernest
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oscar wilde
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peer gynt
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henrik ibsen
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a dolls house
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henrik ibsen
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columbine
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sweet, innocent, naive
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pierrot
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hero
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papa pantelone
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grandpa
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el capitano
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villain
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renaissance
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rebirth
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theatre for the common man
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elizabethan
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Ballad opera
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no talking, singing
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burlesque
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like a variety show, like las vegas strip club
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farce
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exaggerated comedy
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arms of the man
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george B Shaw
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Superman
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George B. Shaw
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Pygmalian
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George B. Shaw
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Waiting for Godot
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Samuel Becket
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Uncle Vanya
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Anton Chekhov
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the sea Gull
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anton chekhov
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the 3 sisters
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anton chekhov
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americas 1st great playwright
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a long days journey into night
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a long days journey into night
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eugene O'neill
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Eugene O'Neill won the pulitzer prize in....
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1957
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Joesph & the amazing technicolor dream coat
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Andrew Lloyd Weber
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Jesus christ superstar
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ALW
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Cats
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ALW
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Evita
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ALW
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Phantom of the Opera
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ALW
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the odd couple
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neil simon
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brighton beach memoirs
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neil simon
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into the woods
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stephen soundheim
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fences
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august wilson
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The iceman cometh
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Eugene O'neil
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the glass menagerie
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tennessee williams
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cat on a hot tin roof
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tennessee williams
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a street car named desire
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tennessee williams
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our town
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thornton wilder
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skin of our teeth
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thornton wilder
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the matchmaker
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thonton wilder
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married to marilyn monroe
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arthur miller
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Death of a salesman
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arthur miller
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the crucible
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arthur miller
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after the fall
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arthur miller
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was blacklisted
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lillian hellman
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children's hour
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lillian hellman
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little foxes
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lillian hellman
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Realism playwrights
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Henrik Ibsen
George B. Shaw Anton Chekhov |
