THEA241 Study Guide - Final Guide: Oscar Hammerstein I, John Wilkes Booth, Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
16 May 2016
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19 c built on the innovations of the 18c. Inventions leading to the industrial revolution in 19 c. The flying shuttle, the spinning jenny, and the cotton gin revolutionized the textile industry. Manufacturing, transportation, steam engines, new modes of communication drove profits and those profits made it down to the middle class. Soon the working and middle classes had money and they were demanding theatre to take them away from the cares and drudgery of daily life. More $ meant more people having it and that meant bigger theatres and more theatres. Early american theatre what we received from what part of the world: England: verse, tragedy, comedy, ballad opera, operettas, literature, & exploration. Italy: opera, commedia dell" arte, proscenium arch, painting, architecture, & exploration. And immigrants from ireland, italy, spain, russia, poland, germany, greece, Actors=pretend to be someone else lying=agents of the devil.
