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Setup of Stage
Shakespeare v. Modern
100
Post-World War II European genre depicting the grotesquely comic plight of human bings thrown by accident into an irrational and meaning less world.
What is theater of the absurd
100
A type of drama that combines elements of both tragedy and comedy. usually, it creates poentially tragic situations that bring the protagonists to the brink of disaster but hten ends happily.
What is tragic-comedies
100
A type of fiction or drama in which the characters are presented as products or victims of environment and heredity.
What is Naturalism
100
Separating the auditorium from the raised stage and the world of the play, the architectureural picture frame or gateway "standing in front of the scenery" in traditional European theaters from the sixteenth century on.
What is Proscenium Arch
100
Expensive seats on top
What is Shakespearean
200
An international literary moevement that originated with nineteenth-century French poets such as Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, and Paul Verlaine.
What is Symbolist Movement
200
The appearance of a comic situation, character, or clownish humor in the midst of a serious action that introduces a sharp contrast in mood.
What is comic relief
200
An attempt to reproduce faithfully the surface appearence of life, especially that of ordinary people in everyday situations.
What is Realism
200
What is Box Set
What is Box-set
200
Men and Women Act
What is Modern
300
Explores hte lives, problems, and occasional triumphs of contemporary women, were also written in a realistic style.
What is feminist theatre
300
A protagonist who is lacking in one or more of the conventional qualities attributed to a hero.
What is an antihero
300
A dramatic style developed between 1910 and 1924 in Germany in reaction against realism's focus on surface details and external reality. To draw an audience into a dreamlike subjective realm, it is used episodic plots, distorted lines, exaggerated shapes, abnormally intense coloring, mechanical physical movement, and telegraphic speech.
What is Expressionism
300
The illusion of scenic realism for interior rooms was achieved in the early nineteenth century with the development of the box set, consisting of three walls that joined in two corners and a ceiling that titled as if seen in perspective.
What is Box Set
300
Expensive Seats up front
What is Modern
400
Post-World War II European genre depicting the grotesquely comic plight of human bings thrown by accident into an irrational and meaning less world.
What is the theater of the absurd
400
The appearance of a comic situation, character, or clownish humor in the midst of a serious action that introduces a sharp contrast in mood.
What is comic relief
400
A type of fiction or drama in which the characters are presented as products or victims of environment and heredity.
What is Naturalism
400
Developed in sixteenth-century Italian playhouses, the picture-frame stage held the action within a proscenium arch, a gateway standing "in front of the scenery"
What is Picture-Frame Stage
400
Runs Plays for weeks/years
What is Modern
500
An international literary moevement that originated with nineteenth-century French poets such as Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, and Paul Verlaine.
What is Symbolist Movement
500
A type of drama that combines elements of both tragedy and comedy. usually, it creates poentially tragic situations that bring the protagonists to the brink of disaster but hten ends happily.
What is tragic-comedies
500
An attempt to reproduce faithfully the surface appearence of life, especially that of ordinary people in everyday situations.
What is Realism
500
Separating the auditorium from the raised stage and the world of the play, the architectureural picture frame or gateway "standing in front of the scenery" in traditional European theaters from the sixteenth century on.
What is Proscenium Arch
500
Only Men
What is Shakespearean
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