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when was the age of enlightenment?
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the 18th c
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who were the mercantile powers?
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england and france
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when was the industrial revolution?
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19 C
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which inventions revolutionized the textile industry
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the flying shuttle, the spinning jenny, and the cotton gin
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what inventions drove profits to the middle class?
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manufacturing, transportation, steam engines, and new modes of communication
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what did america adopt from english theatre?
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verse, tragedy, comedy, ballad opera, oprettas, literature, & exploration
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what did america adopt from italian theatre?
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opera, commedia dell' arte, arch, painting, architecture, exploration
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what did america adopt from french theatre?
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farce, ballet, & exploration
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where were the new american immigrants from?
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ireland, italy, spain, russia, poland, germany, greece, scandinavia, west indies, and africa
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did early american theatre have woman actors?
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yes
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where did the puritans settle? when? why
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MA bay colony in 1620 to escape religious persecution
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what did the puritans think of theatre?
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it was immoral, devil's play thing, actors were dishonest prostitutes and gamblers
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what did the calvinist/protestants think of theatre?
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it was fine because profit is smiled upon by god
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when was the first theatre built? where?
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1716, williamsburg VA
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the black crook: what? when? how many performances? where? how many seats? how much did it make?
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1st AMERICAN MUSICAL; a book musical with french ballet troupe in melodrama. ran in 1866 for 475 consecuitive performances. Played in Niblos garden on broadway. 3200 seats. made over 1M$$$
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what did america give to western theatre?
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the american musical.
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what types of entertainments did americas love?
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vaudeville, burlesque, minstrel shows, jugglers, animal acts, ballad operas, melodramas, and other light fare
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What was PT Barnum famous for that america loved? when?
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light opera, operettas, CIRCUS, wild west shows, VARIETY, medicine shows. 19C
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Who tried to make theatre profitable for politicians?
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Joseph Jefferson. He was bron in philly of stage parents, moved to IL, Springfield. Started a fee for theatre license
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who never charged a tax for theatre?
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lincoln
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Who did Mark play in our american cousin in class?
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asa trenchard and lord dundreary
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who did elizabeth play in our american cousin in class?
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mary
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who is the author of our american cousin? when did it play? where?
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Tom Taylor. April 14, 1865, Washington Dc
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Who were sitting in the booth with lincoln when he was assasinated?
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mary todd lincoln (his wife), major rathbone, miss clara harris, gen. grant
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where did lincoln sit when he was assasinated?
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in a state box 11 feet up by the dress circle
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what did John Wilkes Booth say when he killed lincoln
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"sic semper tyannis" "revenge for the south" as he broke his leg
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when & where were booth and his accomplishes punished?
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april 26- VA: booth. four others hanged in washington on july 7
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where does lincoln's body rest?
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springfield, IL
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where/what/when was the first modern theatre?
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booth theatre 1869 NYC
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what was booth theatre composed of
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a modern orchestra area, balconies, seats with individual armchairs, stage NOT ranked, seats WERE ranked, NO groves but elevators, wing, drop from above
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where/when/what was the chestnut street theatre?
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1816 philly- completely gas lit
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american musical theatre
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ragtime, jazz, big band, bway, pop, rock&roll, blues, country, gospel
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what is the american spirit composed of?
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manifest destiny, melting pot, production line
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when did florenz ziegfeld die? at what age? who was he?
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1932, age 63. He created the folllies on the basis that sex sells. most powerful producer ever. German. Chicago world's fair
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eugene sandow
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hired by ziegeld- sex sells/ was a muscle man
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Geo M. Cohan. When did he die & at what age? what is special about him?
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died 64 in 1942. theres a statue of him on b'way. he is the father of american musical comedy. he is an irish catholic american. vaudeville. first ugly american- brash, in your face, aggressive
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when did times square subway station open? what was the square called until then?
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4/8/1942. longacre square
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who build the first theatre on times square?
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oscare hammerstein 1, a cigar manufacturer
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who was bert williams? when did he die, at what age
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1910 follies song and dance man. wc fields called him "the funniest man that i ever saw and the saddest man that i ever new." died at age 47 in 1922
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who was irving berlin? when did he die? at what age
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he sang a lot of americas popular music such as white christmas, god bless america, easter parade, no biz like show biz, alexanders rag time band, swanee rive, died 101 in 1989. his dad was a cantor and he's a russian jew
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Who is fanny brice? when did she die? at what age
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died 59 in 1951. jewish hungarian comedian. NOT SEXUAL
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What did Jerome Kern do? when did he die and at what age
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age 65, 1945. Jewish german. old man river. worked with oscar hammerstein on show boat
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who was oscar hammerstein? when did he die? at what age?
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worked with jerome kern on show boat. died at age 65 in 1960. jewish german director. his last shows with richard rogers was the sound of music
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what was tin pan alley & where?
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where all the composers played music and sold songs for 10 cents each. W 28th st
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when was the AEA strike & what did they fight for
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july 1919, dances $8/wk costumes, rehersal time, travel, health, pension, safety, norehersal $, out of town
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what was showboat? who was in it? when?
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best musical of its time. controversial, biggest influence on american theatre. 1927. edna ferber, jerome kern, oscar hammestein 2, florence ziegfeld
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what was oklahoma? who was involved in its production? when?
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first musical to use dance to further its story. Roger and hammerstein won a pultizer prize for it. Agnes de miller was in it. 1943
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who was eugene o'neil
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20th C REALIST. characters on the fringe. he wrote about his family. won 4 pultizers. long days journey, moon for the misbegotten
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who was tennessee williams
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20th C REALIST wrote about family. southern gothic playright. won two pultziers in 1948 and 1955. Wrote streetcar named desire, cat, and glass.
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who was arthur miller?
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20th C Realist. Wrote about family and politics, unjust system, misplaced values, power run amok. won 1 pulzier in 1949 for death of the salesman, cruicble, view from the bridge.
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Who did mark play in death of the salesman in class?
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doug
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who did elizabeth play in death of the salesman in class?
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linda
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who is august wilson?
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pittsburg cycle in hill district. start in 1900 and ended in 2000, one play for each decade. won 2 pultziers. fences & piano lessons. died at age 60 from liver cancer. dad was a german immigrant and mom a cleaning woman from north calorina. he wrote abotu his extended fam
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who was edward albee
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an absurdist who wrote in 1928. zoo story, whose afraid of virginia wolf (P?) 3 or four P. Delicate balance adopted, expelled from lawrenceville school & trinity college. still writting mm and i
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mamet
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tough to watch, master of realism. wrote glengarry ross (p'84) masuclinity. american buffalo (3 males) a realistic dialogue mamet speak, george aronow and dave moss, alan arkin and ed harris. shelley levine, ricky roma, john williams, james lingk-jack lemon, al pacino, kevin spacey, johathan pryce, alec baldwin as blake. con men, second story guys, theieves, producers on the take- like strindberg
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what contributed to 20 c realism?
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brought about by social change and industrial revolution. edison 1879, steam power, transportation, new modes of communications. darwin, mark, & freud. huge social change during ww1 (1914-1918) when 9.5 M died. Russian Rev 1917. peace but economic problems to great depression to hitler, mussolini, franco and stalin.
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who was ibsen?
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norwegian, 1928-1906, a doll house, ghosts, hedda gabler, individuals vs society, a doll house vs a doll's house. et dukkenjem does have gender specific articles, this one is neuter-neutral. call to social attention. taboo subject matter. late in career moved away from realism to supernatural or theatre of the absurd
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Rolf Fjelde
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the brilliant teacher, poet, and master translator of ibsen
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strindberg
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sweedish 1849-1912 father, miss julie. between themselves and eachothers and sexes. more real than ibsen moving towards naturalism. no intermission. about lower class. call to social attention. taboo subject matter. late in career moved away from realism to the supernatural or theatre of absurd. like mamet
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chekhov
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aka the master of subtext russian1860-1904. seagull, 3 sisters, uncle vanya & cherry orchard. moved away from melodramatic elemnts in ibsen and strindberg to a larger gallery of characters (12-14 rather than 5-6) and developed a new genre- tragicomedy which eld to more use in our modern theatre. shot x3 then cherry orchard. st
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seagull
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by chekov. petersburg vs. Moscow Art Theatre w/ constantine Stanislavaski & Nemirovich Danchenko 1898 12/17 MAT
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realists
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ibsen, strindberg, chekov (scandinavia & russia)
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naturalism
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strindberg (scandinavia)
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surrealism
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dali (france)
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expressionism
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ionesco, o'neill (germany/ww2)
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brecht
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epic theatre. mother courage. against stanislaski and realism. epic theatre- great deal of time, shift locations, intricate plots, many characters, audience involved not intellectually but emotionally, alienated from dramatic action, highly theatrical, use narrator, song, dance, and used history, historification, setting plays in the past but really reffering to contempoary events paralleling the historic occurences
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brecht & alienation
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to cause the audience to think and use their mind by not being comfortable
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beckett- waiting for godot
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pattern play, tragicomedy, a comedy with tragic consequences- absurdism
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The resistible rise of arturo oui
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setin chicago 1930s but about hitler with music hall interludes, tableaus, elements of sound, opening look, and closing convention
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woman in magic
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sawing woman in 1/2 when woman got the right to vote
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conjurer
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an actor playing the part of a good magician
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magic
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the uncanny moment of the dramatic mode
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