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15 Cards in this Set
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what is commedia dell'arte and what year did it start
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1500 - first form of improv and was started in italy
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who was Moliere
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1600 - what he wrote was based on religious hypocricy and he wrote "Tartuffe" and was told to rewrite it because of religious hypocricy. he was a follower of commedia dell'arte and lived in France
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what is kabuki
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1600- a japanese form of improv and drama
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Shakespeare's work
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1600 - Midsummer Night's Dream, MacBeth, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, Twelfth Night
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Neoclassism
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1600- bringing back the works, paintings, and theatre of the Greeks and Romans, started in France
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Ballad Opera, and man
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1700 - England, same form of commedia dell'arte but with music, makes fun of government, John Gay wrote "Beggar's Opera"
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Sarah Bernhardt
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1860 - sang, acted, directed, from France
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expressionism and man
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1900 - Germany, serious, symbolic, dark, Ernest Tolst wrote "Man fo teh Masses"
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Samuel Beckett + example
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1940 - Irish American, theatre of the senseless, pointless, theatre of the absurd, querky, "Happy Days"
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Tennessee Williams - 2 plays and characteristics of the characters
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"Can on a Hot Tin Roof" "Street Car named disire" characters - from the south, depressed, at least one alcoholic, abusice
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August Wilson
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1970-Today - first African American woman to portray African American life on stage "Fences"
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Julie Taymor
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1970-Today - wrote the lion kind for on stage, known for elaborate set design and choreography
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Wendy Wasserstein
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1970- Today - German American, "crimes of the heart" deal with rape and abortion
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three types of comedy and what they are, an example
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low comedy - physical, farce, exaggerated, senseless, chaotic - Noise is Off
middlebrow comedy - more plot, romantic, more planned, little more realistic - Arsenica and Old Lace High comedy - makes fun of individual poeple, satirical, makes fun of upper class - The Importance of Being Ernest |
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satirical
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exposing human folly
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