Humanities - Drama

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Henrik Ibsen 19th Centruy

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-A Doll’s House
-Ghosts
-An Enemy of the People

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Jean Baptiste Moliere - 1622

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-The Doctor in Spite of Himself
-Sganarelle
-George Dandin.

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Jean Baptiste Moliere - Comedies

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-The Learned Women
-The School for Husbands
-The School for Wives

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Edmond Rostand - French

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- The Romancers
- The Woman of Samaria
(His Plays are light and no dark themes)

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His story Chantecler was brought to the United States in 1910

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Edmond Rostand - French dramatist

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Edmond Rostand - Poetry

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Cyrano de Bergerac
(His poetry has dark themes)

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Oscar Wilde

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- The Importance of Being Earnest - 1905
-Lady Windermere’s Fan
-A Woman of No Importance
-An Ideal Husband

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Samuel Beckett
Winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature

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- Waiting for Godot
(French - to English)
- Endgame

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Eugene Ionesco

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- The Bald Soprano
- La Lecon,
- Les Chaises
- Rhinoceros.

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Eugene Ionesco

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Much of his work delves into the absurdity of the proletariat and the bourgeois

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Eugene O’Neill’s

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-A Long Day's Journey into Night (found after his death)
-Strange Interlude - Pulitzer Prize
-The Iceman Cometh - 1946

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Tennessee Williams

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-A Streetcar Named Desire - Pulitzer Prize - 1947 (sisters Blanche and Stella)
- The Glass Menagerie

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Tennessee Williams

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-Cat On a Hot Tin Roof
-Night of the Iguana
-The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Any More
-The Seven Descents of Myrtle
-In the Bar of the Tokyo Hotel
-Small Craft Warnings

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Proscenium

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The ground the actors stood on in Greek theaters

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The skene

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The background of the Proscenium (traditionally three houses with three doors, and an entrance on either side)

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Scrim

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A transparent fabric used as a drop in the theater to create special effects of lights or atmosphere.
-sometimes also lit from the back so that you can see a silhouette

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Dithyramb

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The start of Greek tragedy performed by the chorus to the god Dionysus

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Thespis

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The lead singer of a dithyramb
(Credited as the father of tragedy)

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Oracle

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The priest or priestess who spoke on behalf of the gods in greek theater

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The fifteenth-century play "Everyman" is a prime example

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A Morality Play

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Oedipus

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Killed his father King Laius and married his mother.

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The Oedipus trilogy is composed of

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-Oedipus Rex
-Oedipus at Colonus
-Antigone

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Antigone

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The daughter of the incestuous affair between Oedipus and his own mother

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Oedipus at Colonus

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Antigone and her sister flee to exile with their father

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Daughter of Zeus and Leda

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Helen of Troy
(Her surrogate father Tyndareus)

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Helen of Troy
The face that launched a thousand ships

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-Chose Menelaus but was kidnapped by Paris
(This the started the Trojan war)

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William Shakespeare wrote historical accounts of

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King Henry the IV, V, VI, and VIII.

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The final three tragedies of Aeschylus are known as

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Oresteia
The three plays are
-Agamemnon
-The Choëphoroe
-The Eumenides

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Eugene O’Neill later rewrote the trilogy Oresteia

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In American-style as Mourning Becomes Electra

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Prometheus Bound

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A bold attack by Aeschylus against the vengefulness of the of gods.

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Greek playwright Aristophanes wrote

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Lysistrata -
Athenian women boycott their spouses in order to end the war.

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Aristophanes

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-The Clouds -a satire about Socrates
-The Wasps - a satire about the Athenians being sue-crazy.

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The Merry Wives of Windsor

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Shakespeare resurrects Sir John Falstaff, who keeps company with two women simultaneously that eventually discover one another.

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The Merchant of Venice

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Antonio is arrested and threatened with losing a pound of flesh when he reneges on a loan

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In The Tempest (William Shakespeare)

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Prospero (once the king of Naple) creates a thunderstorm to trap his brother Ferdinand into coming to the island he and his daughter Miranda have been stranded on for twelve years.

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In Twelfth Night

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Viola dresses as a man after the (supposed) death of her twin brother Sebastian, only to be pursued by Olivia.

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Close friends Proteus and Valentine are separated in

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The Two Gentlemen of Verona.

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Lorraine Hansberry

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- A Raisin in the Sun
- The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window

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Pierre Corneille - 17th Century French dramatist

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-Cinna - Tragedy
-Polyeucte - Tragedy
-Le Cid in 1637 -greatest work

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Bacchae
also referred to as Maenads

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Women who roamed the forests adorned in animal skins and worshipping Dionysus in Greek and Roman tales

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Dionysus

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The god of wine and fertility and drama in Greek mythology

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Stole fire from the gods and gave it to man when Zeus mistreated them. (Greek mythology)

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Prometheus
(Credited with creating humankind out of clay, he took it upon himself to teach many skills to humans so they could better themselves)