THE 191 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Henrik Ibsen, Anton Chekhov, August Strindberg
18 Jan 2017
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Theater style = the distinctive manner in which a playwright chooses to describe, express, interpret or present their worldview: focuses on the appearance of a play. Realism: the attempt to present onstage people and events corresponding to those observable in everyday life, seeks to construct truth, conventions of realism. Avoids neat resolutions: emerged during the mid-19th century. Box set = illusion of 3 walls with doors and windows. Between 1890-1915 european playwrights experimented with real-life situations. Playwrights abandoned stock characters and contrived happy endings: major european playwrights. Accurate depictions of people in plausible situations. Avoiding simple moral judgments or neat resolutions: american realism. Theatricalism: a style of production and playwriting that emphasizes theatricality for its own sake, admits artifice of the stage, expands concept of non-realism, conventions. Reminds audiences they are watching a performance: emergence in the modern period. Drastic shift in the way people saw the world: history. Expressionism: attempt to use distortion in art.
