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Pierre Cornielle
France neoclassical playwright
Wrote The Cid which was accused of not going with the 3 unities
Moliere
French neoclassical playwright
Wrote Tartuffe which was banned and he had to rewrite the play
Aphra Behn
The Rover
During the English restoration
One of the 1st times a women is called a powerful writer
The Contrast
Enlightenment play by Royal Tyler
One of the 1st well known American playwrights
Contrast British identity vs American identity
Victor Hugo
romanticism play
Wrote Hernani
He was French
Hernani- woman having an affair with the king
Caused a riot between classes
August Von Krotzebue
German melodramatic writer
Wrote over 200 plays
Same story, different locations
The Blue Bird
Symbolist play by Maurice Maeterlinck
Antonin Artaud
Wrote the Surrealist Jet of Blood
Sammuel Beckett
Wrote absurd play Waiting for Godot
George M. Cohan
Early musical theatre artist
Had idea of not just a ballad, but a complete plot
Kind of the father of musical theatre
Many songs and musicals were patriotic
Yankee Doodle Dandy, Give My Regards to Broadway
Show Boat
Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein II
First musical with a cast with mixed ethnicity on Broadway.
Federal Theatre Project
Sponsored the musical The Cradle will Rock by Marc Blitzein
Play about labor unions
Shut down by government officials before it opened, so they acted it out at a piano bar across the street
Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein II
Early musical theatre artists
Take on serious social issues
Oklahoma!, The King and I, The Sound of Music
Oklahoma!
Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein II
First musical to integrate music, story, and dance
Andrew Llyod Weber
Contemporary musical theatre artist
Wrote Cats and The Phantom of the Opera
Stephen Sondheim
Contemporary musical theatre artist
Wrote Into the Woods and West Side Story
A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry
First play by an African American on Broadway
Father of black family in Chicago dies and gets $ from life insurance
David Henry Hwang
2nd generation Chinese- American playwright
Wrote M. Butterfly and Aida
Los Moros y Los Cristianos
First play staged in what is now the USA (in Spanish)
Means the mores and the Christians
Performed in Spanish in 1598
Spiderwoman Theatre
Founded by 3 Native American sisters
First all-female Native American group in the USA
Story-telling theatre
Wendy Wasserstein
Wrote The Heidi Chronicles
Theatre by and for women
The Boys in the Band
By Mart Crowley
First play with gay characters on Broadway
Tony Kushner
Wrote Angels in America
Gay and lesbian theatre
Zeami
Noh theatre playwright
Wrote 100 of the 250 plays
Wole Soyinka
Wrote The Strong Breed
African Theatre
From Nigeria
1st African to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature
Julie Taymor
Director of the postmodern Lion King
Robert Wilson
Directed the musical Einstein on the Beach
A Dolls House
Henrik Ibsen
Realism
1879 Denmark
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Tennessee Williams
Tragedy?
1955 Mississippi
Becky's New Car
Steven Dietz
Post-modernism (comedy)
2008 City like Seattle
The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde
Comedy
1895 England
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
August Wilson
1984 Chicago
Gotthold Ephcraim Lessing
German playwright and critic
In house critic for Hamburg National Theatre
Baz Luhrman
Directed the postmodern Romeo and Juliet
Aeschylus
Greek Tragedy- City Dionysia
Oldest, 2 Actor rule
Concerned with relationship between humans and Gods
Sophocles
Greek Tragedy- City Dionysia
Most Famous
3 actor rule
Oedipus Trilogoy, Electra
Euripides
Greek Tragedy- City Dionysia
Youngest/ rebel
Brought in characters of lower classes, anti-war
Aristophanes
Greek Old Comedy
Lysistrata, The Frogs
Menander
Greek New comedy
Dyksolos (The Grouch)
Plautus
Roman Comedy
The Maneachmi
Terence
Roman Comedy
The Brothers (Twins)
Think he was the first black playwright
Seneca
Roman Tragedy
Medea, Phaedra
Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare
Elizabethan times
Wrote for public playhouses
Ben Johnson, Inigo Jones
Wrote Court Masques