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Theatre History II

Review for Exam #2

Spring 2015

--The Exam is 51 questions. (3 points each. Total of 153 points. Thus, 3 extra credit
points.)
Beginnings of Modern Theatre
Wagner
Saxe-Meiningen
Ibsen (career, influence/style, Doll House)
Zola + Naturalism (drama + staging)
G.B. Shaw
Independent Theatre Movement (France, Germany, London, + legacy)
Santley
Non-Realism
Symbolism (philosophy + staging) Maeterlinck
Jarry
Freud
Strindberg
Wedekind
English Aestheticism
Wilde
Irish Renaissance (Abbey Theatre, Yeats, Gregory, Synge, Horniman)
Appia Craig
The "-isms"
Realism/naturalism
Surrealism

Symbolism Expressionism
U.S. expressionist plays

Directors + Russian Theatre


Antoine
Copeau
Reinhardt
Gogol
Meyerhold
Chekhov
Komissarzhevskaya

Futurism
Cocteau

Dadaism

TolstoyStanislavsky
Ballet Russes
Stalin

European Theatre Between the Wars


Artaud (theory + staging)
Brecht (theory + staging, plays)
Pirandello
Giradoux
Anouilh
Lorca
Ghelderode
Witkiewicz
British theatres + staging practices
Tyrone Guthrie
John Gielgud
Coward
Eliot
OCasey

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