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is a movement that spread through Europe in the very late eighteenth century and gained widespread acceptance in all the arts in the first half of the nineteenth century.
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Romanticism
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Modern theatre begins in
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1875.
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Romanticism first movement of note
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-rebelled against neoclassicism.
-sought to free itself from strictures of neo-classicism -emphasis on free-form picaresque stories, exotic locales, sprawlings dramatic structures |
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Proscenium stage came to dominate theatre production
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-built to accommodate rapid changes, flats, backdrops, acting also changed, box sets, real book cases, and fire places.
-strict rules on playwriting, acting and scenery. |
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remains one of the dominant modes of drama today.
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Realism
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According to ----- all human behavior has it’s origin in economic greed, class struggle, and primal amorality.
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Karl Marx
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the ----- was the most pervasive and long lived effect on modern theatre.
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realistic theatre movement
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The goal of realism
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Likeness to live
-The characters were like real people. |
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pioneers of realism
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Henrik Ibsen, Gerhart Hauptmann, George Bernard Shaw
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----- should be characters
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actors
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the ----- believe that human behavior was determined entirely by genetic and social circumstances.
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naturalists
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----- is a more extreme version of realism
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naturalism
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American realists
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Arthur Miller
Eugene O’Neill Tennessee Williams |
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Worked with director and acting teacher Konstantin Stanislavsky at Moscow Art Theatre
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Anton Chekhov
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He conveyed action and characters through
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Anton Chekhov
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As a doctor, he began writing plays late in life
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Anton Chekhov
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