THTR 420 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: George Cram Cook, Susan Glaspell, Provincetown Players
Document Summary
Naturalism and realism: start at the turn of the century, emerging from new technologies and ideas, recording technology, motion picture (real captures, telephones (communications through world, advancement in medicine, major intellectual shifts at time. Scientific method and technology: emile zola, french novelist and playwright that made naturalism, plays should be realistic, issues should be significant, the play setting/time should be simple, karl marx, capitalism, class war, freud interpretation of dreams, inner. A doll"s house: henrick ibson, norwegian playwright, father of realism, 19th century housewife. Nora and her husband helmer: premiered in 1879, the final scene, nora leaves her husband, slamming the door behind her, rewritten for her to stay and was not successful, part 2 was on broadway this year. Work on a doll"s house: identify sound in play, who is that sound linked to, what kind of sound is it.
