1800 to the Present
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ShereeC Plus on January 25, 2012
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22 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Romanticism | an emotional escape into adventure, beauty, and sentimental idealism |
| Alexander Dumas | adapted The Three Musketeers for the stage |
| Realism | depicts a selected view of real life |
| Vaudville | a variety show with many types of entertainment |
| Absurdism | avant-garde theatre where characters speak and act at random |
| Minstrel shows | performed in black face and featured racial stereotypes and situations |
| Impressionistic settings | used colors and lines to set the mood |
| Jean Geraudoux | wrote a modern version of Antigone |
| John Synge and Sean O'Casey | Freedom, oppression, and rebellion were themes of his/their writing |
| Post World War II drama | included the absurdists, "the angry young men", and avante-garde theatre |
| Eugene O'Neill | the leading playwright of the early 20th century |
| Thornton Wilder | his plays show the ability for humans to overcome disaster |
| Epic theatre | encouraged audience members to think critically and promote social reform through political action |
| Regional theatres | established in many major cities across the U.S prior to the '60s |
| Edwin Booth | considered to be one of America's greatest actors in the mid to late 1800s |
| George Bernard Shaw | wrote comic satire |
| Frenchman Edmond Rostand | wrote Cyrano de Bergerac |
| Germany's Bertolt Brecht | developed epic theatre |
| Civil Rights Movement of the '60s | ended minstrel shows |
| Tennessee Williams | his/their plays had issues like alcoholism, adultery, and family violence |
| Lorraine Hansberry | this writer was inspired by racially motivated family legal battles |
| Charles Fuller | this writer wrote the story of the murder of a black sergeant and it was meant to showcase the position of blacks in white society |
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