Two Giants
The Father of Realism
Henrik Ibsen
Our doll heroine could not get enough of this sweet.
Macaroon
The three things that unify the Greek Drama
Time, Place, Action
Movement patterns of actors on the stage. Planned by the director to create meaningful stage pictures.
Blocking
The country in which A Doll's House was first performed
Germany
This author was forced to work in a factory
Tennessee Williams
A place that roughly translates as ‘a beautiful dream'
Belle Reve
A weakness or limitation of character, resulting in the fall of the tragic hero
Tragic Flaw
When Blanche describes the death of her former husband, Allan, and 'the spotlight that had been turned on the world was turned off again', this lengthy is an example of this dramatic technique.
Monologue: Addresses someone a character who does not respond. (as opposed to a soliloquy: A speech meant to be heard by the audience but not by other characters on the stage) The character however, is speaking to someone else or even a group of people.
This is the year that the world first saw Desire.
1947
This author’s merchant family struggled to regain their status after losing their money
Henrik Ibsen
What are Nora’s “other duties, just as sacred”
Her duties to herself (as opposed to her husband and her children)
The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist - from failure to success or success to failure.
Reversal, or Peripeteia
When Torvald Call's Nora a Spendthrift when in reality she is working to repay a loan, this is an example of what literary technique?
Dramatic irony: the contrast between what a character believes and/or says and what the audience knows to be true
Williams’ term for his use of expressionist elements in realist drama
Plastic theatre
This Writer's play dramatizes the conflict between feminine heart and the masculine head
Henrik Ibsen (A Doll's House)
“They told me to take a streetcar named Desire, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries, and ride six blocks and get off at--________!"
Elysian Fields
Words spoken by an actor directly to the audience, but not "heard" by the other characters on stage during a play
Aside
We enter A Doll's House In Medias Res, which is a Latin term that translates roughly as _____.
"In the midst of things"; refers to opening a plot in the middle of the action, and then filling in past details by means of exposition or flashback.
An alternative translation for Ibsen’s 1879 drama
A Doll House
Like his heroine, this character was of Huguenot ancestry
Tennessee Williams
The country from which Stanley’s father emigrated
Poland
The purging of the feelings of pity and fear. According to Aristotle the audience should experiences this at the end of a tragedy.
Catharsis
The imaginary wall that separates the spectator/audience from the action taking place on stage.
Fourth Wall
The friend on whom Ibsen is said to have based his iconic drama.
Laura Kieler