DRAM 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Meiningen Ensemble, Friederike Caroline Neuber, Henrik Ibsen
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The concept of a stage director didn"t exist until the nineteenth century. Before that, playwrights, or actor-managers (like moliere, david garrick, Caroline neuber), served in the function of what we now call the director"s task. The director brings unity and cohesiveness to a script"s concept. (julie taymor"s ideograph: the core essence of something in particular). The need for unity was bought for mostly by the introduction of realism in. Playwrights like eugene scribe, (the glass of water) and eventually henrik. Ibsen (a doll"s house), started writing plays that required stylistic interpretations, and broke conventions that had been set and used for centuries. These came to be known as the well-made play . This new need to solve different problems onstage created a gap where. Directing the stage picture would fit in. call as stage director. Considered by many scholars as the first representation of what we would now.
