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Who was David Garrick?
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Considered the greatest actor of his age. He managed the Drury Lane Theatre for a bit, banished spectators from the stage, began to use historically accurate costume, and longer more intense rehearsal schedule.
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Why did Germany take so long to develop a theatrical identity?
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Germany wasn’t a united nation until later, it was made up of kingdoms and small provinces and therefore did not have a national identity all together.
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Who was Carolina Neuber?
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Worked with Gottsched to achieve goals (reform for theatre) and was an actress.
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What was the Hamburg Dramaturgy? Who wrote it and why is he significant?
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Gotthold Lessing wrote the Hamburg Dramaturgy as a model of “what theatre should be”. Lessing is considered the father of German theatre and supported Shakespeare.
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What was Strum und Drang?
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Came from Romantics and means “Storm and Stress”, they were passionate radical literary movements in the 1770’s, then wrote plays. “Heroes are men of action”. No precise form or style. In defiance of neo-classical rules, Shakespeare.
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What were the significant characteristics of Romanticism?
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Exalted nature
§ Distrusted reason § Distrusted society and civilization § Equality of man § Stressed importance of details § Search for truth and perfection § Exalted the artist (artists were the ones to show us all above things, “high priests”) § Criticism is personal and subjective |
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Who were Goethe and Schiller?
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Goethe (1749-1832): considered Germany’s greatest literary figure and Schiller (1759-1805) helped create the Weimer Classicism period with Goethe (combination of classicism and age of enlightenment)
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Why was England called a dramatic wasteland in the first half of the 19th C.?
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There were 12,000 plays written but none were good or really worthy.
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Who was Ira Aldridge?
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Ira Aldridge was an American female actress.
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How did theatre structures change in the 19th C.?
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Iron and steel replaced brick and wood, therefore theatre structures were much more stable. Elevator in theatre, theatres becoming slowly more modern and contemporary, but costs sometimes limited theatre owners.
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What effect did photography have on theatre?
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Tableau and documentation of shows, costumes, etc.
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