Theater

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The minstrel show

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Nineteenth century, white men distorted features to appear as exaggerated "black" people, some African Americans resorted to this to find work.

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Lorraine Hansberry

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A Raisin in the Sun writer (domestic tragedy and theater of diversity)

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David Henry Hwang

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M. Butterfly

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Luis Valdez

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Chicano theater, zoot suit 1978

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el teatro campesino

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actos, agitprop: makeshift environments and exaggerated characters

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Eve Ensler

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Feminist Theater, Vagina Monologues

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Tony Kushner

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Gay and Lesbian theater, Angels in america

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non-traditional casting

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reinforces canonized works, marginalized playwrighters from underrepresented groups

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genre

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plays that share a particular point of view, after French word meaning "category"

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Comedy of manner

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verbal wit usually aimed at the upper class

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Hamartia

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ancient greek term usually translated as "tragic flaw" literally means "missing the mark" could be a character flaw or an error in judgement

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melodrama

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exaggerated characters and events (the totally virtuous character) plots are to get pity and suspense

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comedy

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enlightenment, Century of progress, optimism

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satire

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correct vices, expose ridiculous behavior

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farce

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strong physical humor

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pun

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a play on words

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malapropisms

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ludicrous misuse of a word, especially by confusion with one of a similar sound

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parody

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similar to satire, but relying on a specific known target

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domestic comedy

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ordinary people, familiar situations

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theater of the absurd

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filled with non-sensical dialogue and plot, convey the inability of people to communicate and the irrationality of existance

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dark comedy

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sometimes a comedy that ends catastrophically, incongruity that outweighs our sympathy

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conflict

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tension between characters that leads to a crisis or climax

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climactic structure

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always moves forward in time, what happens in one scene leads to the next

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episodic structure

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generally over a long period of time with big jumps in place and time, each scene is an individual episode

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tragedy

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Golden age of greece, renaissance,
Fear+Pity+Suffering

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fear

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personal connection feeling that events could happen to you

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Traditional/Classical Tragedy

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the chief characters are people of stature: Kings, Queens, Nobility- central character is caught in a series of inescapable circumstances (destiny)

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heroic tragedy

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high born characters, sometimes have happy endings, death of main character is triumph not tragedy

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domestic or bourgeois tragedy

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ordinary people, stresses problems of middle and lower classes

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Aristotle

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discussed tragedy in the poetics and coined "tragic flaw"

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Quintessential characters

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representative of something

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commedia dell'arte

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no script, just scenario. Actors were servants or ruling class

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allegory

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symbolic representation of abstract themes through characters, action, and other concrete elemnts of a play

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plot

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arrangements of events and characters for dramatic impact, in elizabethan theater an outline of the play posted backstage

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exposition

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providing audience with knowledge not occuring onstage that is important to understand characters or plot

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obstacles

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pre-exist

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complications

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arise during the play

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medium

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means by which an art form presents itself.theater medium is always presentation of a story or event

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rehersal

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preparation by a cast for the performance

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selectivity

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art forms using certain elements while eliminating others, forcing full attention on one element and not others

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deus ex machine

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"god from a machine" any device brought in to solve problems (gods, fate, etc)

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anachronism

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placing a character or event outside its proper time sequence

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socio drama

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characters identify and attempt to remedy inter-group conflicts

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gravity

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graveness

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pertinence

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topicality, relates to us in this time

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celebration

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gives us something to admire, admirable victims

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caricature

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mostly comic, exaggerated