Influences

Question 1

Literature and poetry

Answer 1

• Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Sartre

- Dante

Question 2

Playwrights

Answer 2

• Yeats and synge

- James Joyce

Question 3

Beckett

Answer 3

• rejected family, nation and religion (three oppressive institutions)
• drawn to clowning
• Pierrot
• Medieval European Carnival (the roles are reversed)
• fought in the French Resistance
• supplies circular narratives that are playful, absurd and irreverent (against praise)

Question 4

Joyce

Answer 4

• Ulysses
• stream of consciousness
• radicalised for its content and form
• deification and masturbation
• absurdist to an extent

Question 5

Dadaism

Answer 5

• Swiss origin
• radical far-left
• the destruction and reconfiguration of pieces of plays.

Question 6

Modernism

Answer 6

• between 2 world wars in Europe

- includes expressionism, symbolism, dadaism, surrealism, cubism and futurism.

Question 7

Surrealism

Answer 7

• developed out of dadaism
• released the world of dreams and unconsciousness into art
• JJ and Virginia Woolf

Question 8

Atonal Music

Answer 8

• didn’t follow the rules of tonality

- goes against what is expected

Question 9

Play influences

Answer 9

• “Pierrot Lunaire”
• “Un Chien Andalou”
• “The Scream”
• “The Divine Comedy”