Maurice Maeterlinck

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    Constantin Stanislavski was born on 1863 with the name of Konstantin Sergeyevich Alekseev in Moscow, Russia. He was part of a family who loved theater (His maternal grandmother was a French actress and his father constructed a stage on the family's estate) .He then started acting at the age of 14 joining the family drama chain. In 1885, he gave himself the stage name of Constantin Stanislavski. A couple of years later he married a teacher that would study hard with him about acting. In 1897…

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    Miss Julie

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    the play are actually heroines, however their characters and actions within the play are deemed as not typically heroic, without obliging the audience to like the characters. The sisters mainly endure the natural forces in the play. Chekhov like Maeterlinck, finds drama in stillness and silence moving into a more Symbolist direction. Each act within the play begins with hope of promising activity but later on ends in stillness (Rebellato, 2010). For instance, in act three, there is a beginning…

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    into French, were a significant influence and the source of many stock tropes and images. Other symbolist writers included the poets Rimbaud and Laforgue, the novelists Joris-Karl Huysmans (A Rebours 1884) and Edouard Dufardin, the dramatists Maurice Maeterlinck and so on. Its influence on the other arts can be seen in the music of Debussy and the paintings of Odilon Redon, Gustave Moreau, Van Gogh and Gauguin (Murray 1999: 1086).The aesthetic was developed by Stéphane Mallarmé and Paul Verlaine…

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