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12 Cards in this Set
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Heimrich Ibson |
-Norwegian -Father of Realism -A dolls, House, Hedda Gabler -First Modern Playwright |
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August Strindberg |
-Swedish -Realism (miss julies) -Class and gender issues\-dream pla -Non realistic |
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George Bernard Shaw |
-English -Realist -Pymalion, candida -Social issues, prostitution, poverty, adultery |
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Antov Chekhov |
-Russian -Naturalist -3 sisters, the cherry -He actors playwright -Boring as hell
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Eugine O' Neil |
-US -Expressionist (The Hairy Ape) -Realistic (Desire Under the Elms) -Inconsistent |
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Bertolt Brecht |
-German -Epic Theater -narration -Emotional Detatchment -Analytical -Mother courage and her children |
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Thorton Wilder |
-US -Pulitzer Prize winner (Our Town) -Universal Human Experience
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Tennessee Williams |
-US (Southern) -Poetic -Violent Situations -Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Arthur Miller |
-US -Social Dramatist -Death of a Salesman Death of the American Dream
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Lorraine Hansberry |
-US -Black. Realist -Prejudice -Inspired by HSkaespeare and O'Casey -Died at 34
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Samuel Beckett |
-Theater of the Absurd -Wrote about messed up world due to the cold war |
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Neil Simon |
-US -Comedies: The Odd Couple -Comedies don't have food for soul |