T D 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Poetic Justice, Progressive Era, Fourth Wall
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Puritan ban on there for 30 years restoration theatre. Sentimental dramas and comedies: took middle class not only lower class. Melodrama: most popular dramatic form in the 19th century, clear plot and poetic justice. Victorious hero: use of music for mood. Realism: became popular in the us in the 1850s and onwards, most popular theatrical style well into 1900s, attempts to replicate reality. Stories of common people and everyday struggles. Influences on realism: late 19th century shifts. Science beginning to discover tangible things about the world. Social reforms progressive era ( 1890-920s) Labor regulations working with machines created multiple problems for workers. Suffrage (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s rights: right to ride a bicycle. Link between human and nature: sigmund freud. Story about a woman, nora who is unhappy with her marriage and then after some realization she realizes she is happy with her marriage: anton chekhov. The cherry orchard 1904: konstantin stanislavsky. Russian actor/director (cid:862)(cid:373)ethod acti(cid:374)g(cid:863) new way of acting for realism.
