History Of Theatre

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George II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

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trained as painter, developed Meiningen Theatre and the Meininger company, marriage to Ellen Franz (Baroness Helene von Heldberg

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Ludwig Chronegk

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appointed by Duke of Saxe-Meiningen to manage Meiningen Theatre

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Ellen Franz

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married Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, renamed Baroness Helene von Heldberg

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Second Empire

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Louis-Napoleon & Eugenie, financial speculation

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Third Republic

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first Impressionist salon, divorce legalized, Elegant Eighties, Gay Nineties, Belle Epoque

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Eugene Labiche

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An Italian Straw Hat, French Myself, The Cash Box

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Jacques Offenbback

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Le Violoneux - began association with Hortense Schneider, Helen of Tory, The Brazilian, worked with Meilhac and Halevy

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Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy

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The Brazilian, Parisian Life, librettists, French

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Victorien Sardou

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Let's Get a Divorce, A Scrap of Paper, Theodora, French

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Paris Opera

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designed by Charles Garnier, grand opening 1875

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les demi-mondaines became the les grandes horizontales

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La Belle Otero, Liane de Pougy, Emilienne d'Alencon, Cleo de Merode

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cafe-concerts

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caf'conc;, world fairs, cabarets, art nouveau

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Georges Courteline

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L'Article 330, La Paix chez soi

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George Feydeau

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Hotel Paradiso, The Girl from Maxim's, A Flea in Her ear, one act comedies with embittered attitude toward marriage

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Symbolism

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early influences: Richard Wagner(leitmotifs), Daudelair (Les Fleurs du mal), Poe, Art nouveau design

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Symbolist Poets

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Charles Baudelaire

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état d'ame

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i dont kniw

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Theatre d'Art

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Paul Fort, 1890-1892

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Theatre de l'Oeucre

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Aurelien Lugene Poe, 1892-99, 1912-1929

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Maurice Materlink

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Pelleas et melisande, The Bluebird, Nobel Prize for Literature

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Madame Rachilde nee Marguerite Eymery

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Call of Blood, Madame death, Alfred Jarry, Alfred Vallette

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Paul Claudel

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19th century Symbolist poetry
20th century Symbolist poetry

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Adolphe Appia

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Staging Wagnerian Drama, Music and the Art of the Stage, The Work of Living Art

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Hugo von Hofmannsthal

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Yesterday, Death and the Fool, The difficult man, worked with Richard Strauss, Elektra, Arabella

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Anton Chekov

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completed medical studies at Moscow University; began medical practice, Swan Song (one-act play), In the Twilight (14 stories, won Pushkin Prize), The Wood Demon, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya , Three Sisters, married Olga Knipper, The Cherry Orchard

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Konstantin Sergeivich Stanislavsky

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married actress Lilina (Marie Petrovna Perevoschikova),
formation of MXAT (Moscow Art Theatre) company
1898 14 Oct. MXAT premiere production, Moscow Art Theatre Dramatic School, MAT acquires theatre on Kamergersky Street, Hamlet with sets designed by Edward Gordon Craig, October Socialist Revolution; Lenin in power, 1917-1924
1922-24 MAT on tour in Europe and United States
1924 My Life in Art

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Richard Wagner

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The Flying Dutchman, Art and Revolution, leitmotiv, Das Rhinegold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, Die Götterdämmerung, Tristan und Isolde , married Cosima Liszt von Bülow ,first performance of The Ring of the Niebelung as a complete cycle

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Bayreuth Festspielhaus

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mystic chasm, continental seating, double proscenium
the place has stayed in the family

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Friedrich Nietzche

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The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music, Apollonian vs. Dionysian spirit, Ubermensch, The Genealogy of Morals

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Alfred Jarry

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Henri Morin, Les Polonais, Les Minutes de sable mémorial in Mercure de France, L’Inutilité du théâtre” in Mercure de France, ‘pataphysics, Ubu sur la butte (condensed marionette version of Ubu roi with cabaret songs), father of dadism

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Edmond Rostand

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(The Romancers, (Woman of Samaria), Cyrano de Bergerac, youngest person ever elected to Académie Française

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Cyrano de Bergerac

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avinien Cyrano de Bergerac (1619-1655)
monstrously large nose; fought more than 1000 duels

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Fin de siècle Decadence

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Oscar Wild, edgar allan poe, aubrey bearsley

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Arthuer Schnitzler

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austrian, süBes Mädel, The Green Cockatoo, La Ronde, Undiscovered Country, Professor Bernhardi

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subes Madel

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the sweet little miss

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Frank Wedekind

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German, Earth SPirit, The Tenor, Pandora's Box, marriage to Tilly Newes

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Ferenc Molnar

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Hungarian, Lilion (Carousel), The Swan, The Red Mill

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Gabriele D' Annunzio

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Italian, liaison with Eleonora Duse, The Dead City, Daughter of Jorio

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Eleonora Duse

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actress, fell in with abusive men

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Karl Krauss

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Die Fackel, Die letzen Tage der Menschheit, Die demolierte Litterature

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Count Lev Nikolaievich Tolstoy

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married Sofia/Sonia Behrs, War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Power of Darkness, Master and Man

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August Strindberg

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The Free-Thinker, Master Olof, marriage to Siri von Essen, Miss Julie , marriage to Frida Uhl (1872-1943, Austrian writer): 1 daughter, marriage to Harriet Bosse (1878-1961, Norwegian actress): 1 child, The Dance of Death (Dödsdansen I & II), The Ghost Sonata (a.k.a. Spook Sonata) (Spöksonaten)

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Henrik Ibsen

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Bergen Theatre, Peer Gynt written, 1879 A Doll's House premieres, 1882 Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, The Lady from the Sea, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder

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philosophical treatises

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auguste comte (positivisme), Charles Darwin (The origin of Species by Mean of Natural Selection), Charles Bernard (Introduction to the rudy of Experimental Medicine), Hippolyte Taine (The History of English Litereature)

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emile zola

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Therese Raquin, Naturalism of theatre, J'Accuse

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Andre Antione

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Theatre Libre - spawned four others like it

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Theatres imitating Theatre Libre

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Freie Bune, Independent Theatre Society, Moscow Art Theatre, Irish Literary Theatre

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maurice pottecher

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Theatre du Peuple

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Henry becque

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6 full-length pièces bien observés

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Georges de Porto Riche

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Amoureuse

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Grancois de Curel

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Les Fossiels

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Eugen Brieux

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Blanchette, Damaged Goods

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Paul Hervieu

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The Pincers

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Jiles Renard

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Poil de carotte

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Henry Baraille

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Maman Colibri

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Otto Brahm

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founder of Freie Buhne

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Gerhart Hauptmann

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The Weavers, The Beaver Coat, Nobel Prize for Literature

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Hermann Sudermann

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Heimat - Magda

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Tolstoy

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The Power of Darkness

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Maxxim Gorky

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The Lower Depths