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Theatre History II Con. Europe to 1900
Theatre History II MSU Mankato
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Film, Theatre & Television
Graduate
03/29/2011

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Franz Grillpazzer
Definition
-Austrian
-First important Austrian playwright
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Victorien Sardou
Definition
-Used Scribe's well made play formula
-Wrote for Sarah Bernhard
-Expensive scenery
-Torture the women!
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Heinrich von Kleist
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-Scene as a precursor to Ibsen
-Mutual Suicide
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Alfred de Musset
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-Influenced by Hugo
-Romantic elected to the French Accademy
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Leo Tolstoy
Definition
-Friend of Chekov
-Dostoyevsky thought him the greatest playwright of all time
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Georg Buchner
Definition
-Wrote Woyzeck
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Eugine Scribe
Definition
-Well made play formula
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Christian Dietrich Grabbe
Definition
-German
-Precursor of expressionism
-A drunken Shakespeare
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Stendhal
Definition
-Henri-Marie Beyle
-Syndrom named after him
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Alexander Dumas Pere
Definition
-Mixed Race
-Three Musketeers
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Madame De Stael
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-Highly critical of Napoleon
-Patron of the theatre
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Sarah Bernhardt
Definition
-The Divine ________
-Incredible Personality
-Lost her leg to Gangreen
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Louis-Jacques Dagurre
Definition
-French Artist and Chemist
-Invented the Diorama
-Theatrical Designer
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The Diorama
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-Invented by Dagurre
-Room with scenery in it
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The Belle Epoque
Definition
-The beautiful era
-Golden age for upper classes
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Auguste Comte
Definition
-French Philosopher
-Founded sociology
-Doctrine of Positivity
-Altrusim
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Jaques Offenbach
Definition
-Composer
-Created a place for the Opperetta
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The Schlegels
Definition
-Leaders of German Romanticism
-Poets and Critics
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George II Duke of Saxe Meiningen
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-First Modern Director
-Authenticity of Costume
-Innovative in Scenic Design
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Johan Wolfgang von Goethe
Definition
-Worked with Schiller to establish Weimar Classicisim
-Faust
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Victor Hugo
Definition
-Sublime and grotesque
-Les Miserables
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George Sand
Definition
-Cross dresser
-Scandalous actress
-Wore Pants
-Smoked
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Richard Wagner
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-Forerunner of Modernism
-Rejected Realism
--Myth Makers
-Festival Theatre
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Fredrich Hebbel
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-Dumped Elise for his "art"
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Rene Charles Guilbert de Pixerecourt
Definition
-Known for melodrama
-Over 120 works
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Alexander Pushkin
Definition
-Russian Poet
-Founder of Russian Literature.
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Adolph Montigny
Definition
-Directing as an art in France
-Table downstage to prevent actors from being typical
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Francois Delsarte
Definition
-French Tennor
-Acting Technique
-Mechanical Acting
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Emile Zola
Definition
-Thought of theatre as a "petri dish"
-Wanted literature to become scientific
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