ENGL 103W Lecture : ENG 103W Lecture Notes (11/17/10)
16 Dec 2012
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Naturalist and realist theatre the main mode of theatre from 1850-1950. Naturalism asserts a verisimilitude; a photographic slice of life. Stage filled with objects from real life to create the realistic environment that the men and women in the dramam would be in. New sets fro each production to create specific environment will shakespeare: relatively bare stage; restoration: a few sets used over and over. When the play was set in an historical period, costumes would be accurate to the period depicted. No the case in elizabethan plays, for instance. In shakespeare"s plays, all the kinds of clothes people wore in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Macbeth characters didn"t wear 11th century costumes, they wore 16th century clothing; likewise, roman plays (julius caesar) Influence of their environment can be seen on the character. The perfect house with middle class furniture lovely but confining to nora (the doll.
