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| What was Epic theatre good for? |
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| It championed social action |
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| Who made the Epic theatre? |
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| What's the importance of Bertolt Brecht? |
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| To remember about Bertolt Brecht. |
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| Drawing heavily on the expressionists, Brecht developed complex theories and its relationship to life, and he continued to mold and develop these theories until his death. |
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| What did Bertolt Brecht revolt against? |
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| Who postulated historification, alientation, and epic. |
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| What were the three things that Brecht postulated? |
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| historification, alienation, and epic |
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| What is historification as postulated by Brecht? |
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| historification removed events from the lifelike present to the past in order to make the actions presented seem strange. It makes the audience see that things have changed since then and thus they too can make changes in the present. |
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What is alienation as postulated by Brecht? Why is alienation, in theatre, important? |
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| The audience must be separated, or alienated, from the play's events, even though they might be emotionally involved in them. Historification was one kind of alienation. He wanted to make sure that the audience did not confuse the theatre with reality and only see it as a comment on life. |
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| Why did Brecht call his theatre "epic"? |
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| Because he believed that his plays resembled epic poems more than they did traditional drama. His plays present a story from the point of view of a storyteller, and they frequently involve narration and changes of time and place that might be accomplished with nothing more than an explanatory sentence. |
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| Absurdism. Many artists of this period had lost faith in what? |
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| Religion, Science, and Humanity itself. |
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| Those who lost faith in religion, science, and humanity during the absurdism period found what in their search for meaning? |
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| Chaos, complexity, grotesque laughter, and perhaps insanity. |
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| What did the plays of Luigi Pirandello ask? Absurdism period. |
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| obsessively ask the question "what is real?" |
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| Who's plays asked the question "What is real?" |
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| Who wrote Six Characters in Search of an Author? |
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| Explain the importance of Six Characters in Search of an Author by Pirandello. |
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| Pirandello sought to fragment reality by destroying conventional dramatic structures and adopting new ones. It was a play within a play. |
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| What was the point of Right You Are If You Think You Are written by Pirandello? |
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| Pirandello expressed his dismay at an incomprehensible world in mocking laughter directed at those who thought they knew the answers. |
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| Who was Right You Are If You Think You Are written by? |
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| a philosophy arising after World War II in conflict with traditional beliefs and values and based on the contention that the universe is irrational and meaningless and that the search for order causes conflict with the universe. |
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| Who was Jean-Paul Sartre? |
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| French existentialist philosopher, writer, and playwright |
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| Who was one of the best known French existentialist philosopher, writer, and playwright |
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| What did Jean-Paul Sartre believe? |
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| That no absolute or universal moral values existed and that humankind formed part of a world without purpose. Therefore, men and women had responsibility only to themselves. |
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| Who believed that no absolute or universal moral values existed and that humankind formed part of a world without purpose. Therefore, men and women had responsibility only to themselves. |
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| What is No Exit, by Jean-Paul Sartre based on? |
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| His views on existentialism. |
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| How did Albert Camus view the term absurd. |
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| As somewhere between humanities aspirations and the meaninglessness of the universe which is the condition of life. |
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| Who wrote Cross-Purposes? |
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| What did Albert Camus write? |
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| What is Cross-Purposes about? |
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| Determining which way to take a chaotic universe |
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Absurdism is somewhere between humanities aspirations and the meaninglessness of the universe which is the condition of life.
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