19th Century Continental Theatre
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Romanticism | style with emotional escape into adventure, beauty, and sentimental idealism |
| Goethe | one of the founders of Romanticism |
| Schiller | one of the founders of Romanticism |
| Victor Hugo | wrote Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame (the books), helped the Romantic movement |
| Alexander Dumas | adapted for the stage his well-read adventures such as The Three Musketeers |
| Realism | style that depicted a selected view of real life |
| Henrik Ibsen | often called the Father of Realism; wrote The Doll's House, The Master Builder, An Enemy of the People, Ghosts, and Hedda Gabler |
| Strindberg | Swedish playwright who wrote expressionistic drama that became a forerunner of today's avant-garde theatre |
| Chekhov | Russian playwright who wrote The Cherry Orchard; anti-Romanticism |
| Gorki | playwright who wrote Lower Depths; anti-Romanticism |
| Stanislavski | the great Russian director who contributed to the movement with his experimental theatre for actors (the magic if) |
| George Bernard Shaw | playwright who produced Ghosts and then wrote Ancrocles and the Lion, Pygmalion, Major Barbara, The Devil's Disciple, Arms and the Man, The Doctor's Dilemma, and Candida; considered the finest English playwright since Shakespeare |
| Oscar Wilde | playwright who wrote witty farces such as The Importance of Being Earnest |
| Sir William Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan | wrote Mikado and HMS Pinafore |
| Rostand | French playwright who wrote Cyrano de Bergerac |
| Gogul | Russian playwright who wrote The Inspector General |
| Maeterlinck | Belgian playwright who wrote The Bluebird |
| Pirandello | Italian playwright who wrote Six Characters in Search of an Author |
| Sarah Bernhardt | famous French actress |
| Coqueli | famous French actor |
| Eleanor Duse | famous Italian actress |
| Sir Henry Irving | famous English actor |
| Ellen Terry | famous English actress |
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