THEA 2210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Method Acting, August Strindberg, Auguste Comte
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Stage as an environment rather than an acting platform. Thought provoking moral and social themes: ibsen"s doll house is a good example of realist theatre. Realist theatre: out of a literary and artistic movement called realism. Romanticism (17902) goethe (faust) and schiller (william tell): known for brave heroes, late 19th century when it became a movement. Naturalism: emile zola (theres raquin) and gorky (the mother: naturalism is an extreme form of realism. Auguste comte (1798-1857) positive philosophy and positive polity (1830- Metaphysical knowledge as theoretical speculation: knowledge can only be verified by empirical science such as sociology, physics, etc. Empirical science, scientific methods, empiricism, objectivity: experience of reliability and something that is verifiable as opposed to ideology. Realism: art as scientific : romanticism in the late 1800s represented expressions, they pushed the idea of authentic forms of art, movement of the body was explored to enhance feelings. Let us take the hammer to theories and poetic systems.
