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    The document summarizes the social and cultural context of modern European drama from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century. It describes how modernism emerged in response to industrialization and the horrors of war, rejecting realism and certainty. Key movements included Symbolism in France in the 1880s, German Expressionism from 1910-1920 which explored violence and the psyche, and Absurdism which portrayed the world as alienating and incomprehensible. By the 1930s, modernist ideas had entered popular culture as society shifted to nuclear families with intensified Freudian tensions.

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    The document summarizes the social and cultural context of modern European drama from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century. It describes how modernism emerged in response to industrialization and the horrors of war, rejecting realism and certainty. Key movements included Symbolism in France in the 1880s, German Expressionism from 1910-1920 which explored violence and the psyche, and Absurdism which portrayed the world as alienating and incomprehensible. By the 1930s, modernist ideas had entered popular culture as society shifted to nuclear families with intensified Freudian tensions.

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    SOCIAL AND CULTURE CONTEXT OF MODERN EUROPEAN DRAMA

    TINCY SIMON II M.A.ENGLISH ROLL NO:17

    MODERNISM
    modern thought, character, or practice. began in the 1890s and lasted till about 1945.

    SOCIAL CONTEXT
    the development of modern industrial societies. the rapid growth of cities. horror of World War I and II.

    rejection of the ideology of realism. rejected the lingering certainty of Enlightenment thinking. A salient characteristic -

    self-consciousness.

    the 20th century writers thinkers, and artists made the break with traditional means of organizing literature, painting, and music.

    Symbolist Drama
    -movement in France in the 1880s. -Symbolists called for "detheatricalizing" the theatre. -symbolic imagery . -Strong Symbolist elements can be found, however, in the plays of Chekhov and the late works of Ibsen and Strindberg.

    Expressionist Drama
    -movement was popular in the 1910s and 1920s, largely in Germany. -explored the more violent, grotesque aspects of the human psyche, creating a nightmare world onstage. -Other movements of the first half of the century, such as Futurism, Dada, and Surrealism, sought to bring new artistic and scientific ideas into theatre.

    Absurdist Theatre
    -The

    most popular and influential nonrealistic genre of the 20th century was absurdism. -"man as lost in the world, all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless. -Absurdist drama tends *to eliminate much of the cause-and-effect relationship among incidents *reduce language to a game and minimize its communicative power *reduce characters to archetypes *make place nonspecific and view the world as alienating and incomprehensible.

    Contemporary Drama
    - realistic plays. - European drama was not much influenced by psychological realism but was more concerned with plays of ideas, as evidenced in the works of the Italian dramatist Luigi Pirandello.

    CULTURE CONTEXT
    By 1930, Modernism had entered popular culture the basic bondings of the nuclear, rather than extended, family. The Freudian tensions of infantile sexuality and the raising of children became more intense, because people had fewer children, and therefore a more specific relationship with each child: the theoretical, again, became the practical and even popular.

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