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Realism
Naturalism
Symbolism and Expressionism
American Modernism
Absurd
100
The attempt to reproduce faithfully the surface appearance of life, especially that of ordinary people in everyday situations.
What is Realism?
100
A kind of realism in fiction and drama dealing with the more brutal or unpleasant aspects of reality.
What is Naturalism?
100
A french movement in theater that stemed from writers feeling confined by old themes and conventions.
What is Symbolist Movement?
100
Writer that first used modern American drama.
Who is Eugene O'Neill?
100
Plays that stir us not only to pity and fear but also to laughter
What is tragic comedies?
200
Three walls that joined in two corners and a ceiling that tilted as if seen in perspective.
What is box set?
200
Wrote "The Hairy Ape"
Who is Eugene O'Neill
200
German theater movement that reflected intense states of emotion to depict the world through lunatic eyes.
What is Expressionism?
200
Wrote "Death of a Salesman"
Who is Arthur Miller?
200
A general name for a type of play in whcih the suffering seems ridiculus and nothing can be taken entirely seriously.
What is theater of the absurd?
300
Writer most responsible for the shift to Realism.
Who is Henrik Ibsen?
300
Main character in "The Hairy Ape"
Who is Yank?
300
Major event that sparked the Expressionism movement.
What is World War I ?
300
Wrote "A Streetcar Named Desire"
Who is Tennessee Williams?
300
Plays that explore the lives, problems, and occasional triumphs of contemporary women.
What is feminist theater?
400
In this writer's plays, the dialogue seemed to meander and appeared to be no action. Wrote "The Cherry Orchard"
Who is Anton Chekhov
400
Novelist and playwright in the Natualism movement.
Who is Emile Zola
400
Writer that most influentially expressed the Symbolist movement.
Wh0 is Maurice Maeterlinck?
400
Play by Tennessee Williams in 1955
What is "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"?
400
Influences of experimental drama
What is Symbolist, Expressionist, and absurdist theater.
500
This director helped actors feel at home inside a playwright's characters.
Who is Constantin Stanislavsky?
500
This writer's "The Lower Depths" is a masterpiece of Naturalism.
Who is Maxim Gorky?
500
Writer that employed Expressionist techniques in his 1926 play "The Great God Brown"
Who is Eugene O'Neill
500
Wrote "Our Town" in 1938
Who is Thornton Wilder?
500
Passages of clownish humor.
What is comic relief