Modern Drama 1
Modern Drama 2
Intro and Act I
Act I and Act II
Act III
100
The two dominant modes of drama
Realism and expressionism
100
Modern American drama began around the time of this major world event
World War I
100
The play begins in this year.
1901
100
George and Rebecca find this fact startling about Jane Crofut's letter.
The postman delivered it despite its unusual address.
100
The subject of this act
Death
200
Realism focuses on
the everyday/ordinary/commonplace
200
A major part of a play's setting that provides a visual framework for the action
scenery
200
The two primary families are
The Gibbs and the Webbs
200
The time/year this act takes place
Three years after the first act/1904/after high school commencement
200
Emily died through
Childbirth
300
Expressionism focuses on
human perception/emotions/feelings
300
The group of people who comment on the action of a play
The chorus
300
The play occurs in this town in this state.
Grover's Corners, New Hampshire
300
Emily and George discover their mutual affection in the flashback scene in this place.
The drugstore
300
The day Emily chooses to relive is
Her twelfth birthday
400
Henrik Ibsen coined this phrase, saying a play should be
a slice of life
400
A short line or speech spoken by a character to the audience
An aside
400
Thornton Wilder was unique in being both a this and this.
A dramatist and a novelist
400
The real hero of a wedding according to the Stage Manager is
The children to come
400
The Stage Manager says that the only people who value life while they live it are
The saints and poets
500
Henrik Ibsen's plays are called
Problem plays
500
August Strindberg was called the explorer of inner what?
Geography
500
The Stage Manager's attitude is
detached
500
George and Emily leave through the audience, making them this.
Witnesses to the marriage/a part of the play
500
Emily realizes this about the living when she revisits a day.
They don't appreciate life while they have it.
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