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The Art of Being Human, 7/e Chapter 7 – THE THEATER PowerPoint by Julie Rodakowski

The Art of Being Human, 7/e Chapter 7 – THE THEATER PowerPoint by Julie Rodakowski. CONVENTIONS OF THE THEATER. Classical Conventions Elizabethan Conventions Neoclassical Conventions Victorian Conventions Early Modern Conventions Contemporary Conventions. TRAGEDY.

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The Art of Being Human, 7/e Chapter 7 – THE THEATER PowerPoint by Julie Rodakowski

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  1. The Art of Being Human, 7/e Chapter 7 – THE THEATER PowerPoint by Julie Rodakowski ©2003 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Longman Publishers.

  2. CONVENTIONS OF THE THEATER • Classical Conventions • Elizabethan Conventions • Neoclassical Conventions • Victorian Conventions • Early Modern Conventions • Contemporary Conventions ©2003 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Longman Publishers.

  3. TRAGEDY • Classical Tragedy • Sophocles’sOedipus Rex, • Euripides's Medea • Shakespearean Tragedy • Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear • Neoclassical Tragedy • Racine’sPhaedra • Modern Tragedy • Miller’s Death of a Salesman, A View from the Bridge • Melodrama and Tragedy: a contrast ©2003 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Longman Publishers.

  4. COMEDY • Farce (commedia dell’arte) • Moliere’s The Would-Be Gentleman, • Weycherley’s The Country Wife • Satire • Aristophanes’s Lysistrata, • Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest • The Comedy of Character • Shakespeare’s character of Falstaff ©2003 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Longman Publishers.

  5. NATURALISM A reflection of life the way it really was, without the artificiality of the stage dialogue of the past or well-constructed, tight plots. Chekhov’s Three Sisters Williams’s The Glass Menagerie O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night ©2003 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Longman Publishers.

  6. THEATER OF IDEAS Plays that focus on ideas rather than characters, challenging notions of marriage, business, government, the clergy, education, and so on. • Ibsen’s A Doll’s House • Shaw’s Pygmalion • Shaw’s Major Barbara ©2003 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Longman Publishers.

  7. A THEATRICAL CENTURY OF DYNAMIC CHANGE • THEATER OF ALIENATION • Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle • THEATER OF CRUELTY • Weiss’s Marat / Sade • Fo’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist • Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest ©2003 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Longman Publishers.

  8. DYNAMIC CHANGE • RACIAL THEMES • Hansberry’sA Raisin in the Sun • Fugard’s Sizwe Bansi Is Dead • Wilson’s Fences, The Piano Lesson • GAY RIGHTS • Hellman’s The Children’s Hour • Kushner’s Angels in America • EASTERN INFLUENCES • Hwang’s M. Butterfly • Noh theater of Japan ©2003 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Longman Publishers.

  9. BEHIND THE SCENES THE DIRECTOR • chooses the cast • works on setting, lighting, sounds, and costumes • learns to achieve illusions so the audience believes • knows different interpretations and chooses (or creates) his/her interpretation • recognizes the importance of blocking, done in conjunction with the cast • decides if s/he will modernize a play ©2003 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Longman Publishers.

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