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Prologue | |
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The Immediate Precursors of the Modern Theater | |
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The Precursors of the Modern Theater | |
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Romanticism | |
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The Melodrama | |
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Showcase: "Hernani: The Romantic Melodrama That Changed Western Theater." | |
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The Well-Made Play | |
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Showcase:"Eugene Scribe's Well-Made Play: The Glass of Water." | |
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The Problem Play | |
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Showcase: "The Original Problem Play: La Dame aux Camillias (Camille)." | |
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The "Other" First Modern Play? | |
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Play: WOYZECK (Georg Buchner: 1836, Carl R. Mueller, trans.) | |
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Early Modern Drama: 1870-1918 | |
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Realism | |
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Influences on Realism | |
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Showcase: "Influences on Realism: The Rise of the Director and Germany's Meiningen Players." | |
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Naturalism | |
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The First Generation of Realists: Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, and Stanislavsksy | |
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Showcase: "The Provincetown Playhouse and Susan Glaspell: The Birthplace (and the Mother) of the Modern American Theater." | |
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Alternatives to Realism and Naturalism | |
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Relativism | |
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Expressionism | |
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Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House | |
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Showcase: "The Tarantella and Other Healing Dances." | |
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Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard | |
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Showcase: "The Stanislavsky System and the Moscow Art Theater." | |
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John Millington Synge, Riders to the Sea | |
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Showcase: "The Irish Renaissance." | |
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August Strindberg, The Ghost Sonata | |
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Showcase: "Independent and Intimate Theaters." | |
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Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House | |
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Showcase: "Notes for a Production of Heartbreak House"(Harold Clurman) | |
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Late Modern Drama and Its Decline: 1920-63 | |
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The Aftermath of World War I | |
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Showcase: The Prototype of the Relativist Drama: Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author | |
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Other "Isms." | |
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Surrealism | |
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Futurism | |
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Constructivism | |
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Popular Culture | |
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The Epic Theatre | |
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Showcase: "The Epic Theatre: The Berliner Ensemble of Bertolt Brecht: 1949-99" | |
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The Second Generation of Realists | |