ENGL-UA 708 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Raymond Williams, August Strindberg, Theatricality
27 Mar 2018
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Week 2: review of the birthday party, introduction to naturalism. Character: at the heart of the drama, understood through social, economic circumstance not morality, complex and not purely representational, working-class characters as interesting/worthy of analysis as the bourgeoisie. Henrik ibsen (playwright: born 1828, skien norway, self-imposed exile to europe, 1865 brand successful in scandinavia, 1879 a doll"s house, 1881 ghosts, 1882 an enemy of the people, 1884 the wild duck, 1890 hedda gabler. A doll"s house, 1880, flensburg germany (revised ending) Advances in lighting: until this point, candles and oil lamps, london 1817 introduction of gas lights, generalised lighting states, london 1837 introduction of limelight, spotlight and coloured effects, 1881 electric lighting. As a result in the need for a change in style of acting. The founding of our new moscow art and popular theatre was in the nature of a revolution.
