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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 | |