[THEA 1206] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 31 pages long Study Guide!
30 Mar 2017
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Actual machine used to raise the god late in the show in the action. Becomes literary term for the device that just fixes the problem at the end of the show. Contemporary- the time we are in now, regardless of what that time is: christopher marlowe was a contemparary of william shakespeare. Modern- an era of time and thinking indefinable but with certain attributes: anton chekhov though dead for 110 years is a modern playwright. An indefinable time (like the renaissance: from end of 19th century to 20th century. Attributes: (cid:862)make it new(cid:863) ezra pound, technology, urban, humans are great because they can create. It"s not a(cid:271)out the style of a(cid:272)ting it"s how we present the style. It"s not just a(cid:271)out purpose it"s a(cid:271)out purpose in a new way. Psycho: alfred hitchcock, shower scene eyeball camera thingy. Begins almost immediately in response to modernism. Attributes: self-awareness, no master narratives, commodification- created from atomic bomb.
