Types of plays
What kind of plays predominated in the Middle Ages?
Passion plays
Faust was written by...
Goethe
... presented the need for a director
Naturalism
Representation of dramatic or violent events to exalt feelings, often in an exaggerated way
Melodrama
Who invented the Gesamtkunstwerk?
Richard Wagner
Exploration of the most violent and grotesque aspects of the human mind
Expressionism
Type of play originated during the Third Reich
Thingspiele
Epic theatre was created by...
Bertolt Brecht
Movement created by Richard Wagner that aims to represent the state of the soul
Anti-realism