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missed final q's Flashcards

1
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Which of Ibsen’s contemporaries comprised the “Ibsen Campaign” to defend Ibsen against his critics?

A

George Bernard Shaw and William Archer

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A theatre movement that valued subjective feeling, poetic language, and sparse sets over objective realism, common vernacular, and elaborate settings

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Symbolist

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3
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Why does Dr.Rank stop by the apartment after the party?

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to say goodbye for the last time

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4
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Ibsen’s early plays Peer Gynt and Brand were poetic reactions to what kind of plays?

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The well-made play

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5
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Why does Nora refuse Dr.Rank’s help?

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He implies he loves her

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6
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Which WWII theatre genre is associated with French dramatists Samual Beckett, Jean Genet, and Eugene Ionesco?

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Absurdism

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7
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Torvald gently chastises his wife as…

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a spendthrift

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A term meaning “total work of art, synergy of theme, narrative, dramaturgical form, and production style”

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Gesamtkunstwerk

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The founder of Abbey Theatre dedicated to the cultural independence of Ireland and an Irish national theatre

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Lady Augusta Gregory

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The dominant new theatre movement at the turn of the twentieth century was

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Realism

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11
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Who is the only person permitted to close Elesin’s eyes after he dies?

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his bride

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12
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Which of the following led to the emergence of openly gay themes and playwrights?

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Sexual Offenses Act of 1967

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13
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Zoot Suit was a play by what Off-Broadway theatre company that used agit prop theatre to draw attention to migrant farmworkers

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El Teatro Campesino

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14
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Who did Beckett meet as a lecturer in English who influenced him as a writer?

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James Joyce

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What British director popularized working class theatre and entertained orphaned children freed from concentration camps?

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Joan Littlewood

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16
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Who is the theorist that defines orientalism as an invention of the Western imagination?

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Edward Said

17
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This form of theatre “interrupts the flow of drama” to “provoke critical thinking about the political nature of events happening on stage”

A

Epic Theatre

18
Q

What replaces plot in Waiting For Godot?

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Activities

19
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Associated with FT Marinetti, this form of theatre idealized war and technology

A

Futurism

20
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The exploration of “the influence of imperial ideologies, power structures, and discourses on contemporary perceptions and relations; and look for ways in which those who live in [such] societies can achieve new forms of identity and cultural resistance” are defining characteristics of which kind of theatre:

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Postcolonial theatre

21
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Associated with the Provincetown Players, this American theatre movement produced experimental, non-commercial theatre

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Little Theatre

22
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The Independent Theatre Movement was…

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a group of theatres funded by subscription that circumvented licensure and state sponsorship to avoid censorship

23
Q

Avant-garde, originally a military term meaning advanced guard, came to be associated with…

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radical groups seeking social change

24
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When Elesin hears the praise-singer, he believes he is speaking to…

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the deceased king

25
Q

What does Lucky need his hat to do?

A

Think

26
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This form of theatre explores the nature of role-playing and the relationship between reality and theatrical illusion

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Metatheatre

27
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Which playwright is most associated with aestheticism- a movement focused on beauty and art without social or political purpose?

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Oscar Wilde

28
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Death and the King’s horseman is based on actual events that occured in…

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1946 WWII

29
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Which American theatre extended Constantin Stanislavsky’s system into Method acting that emphasized psychological motivation, intention, and subtext?

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Group Theatre

30
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Mrs.Linde persuades Krogstad to…

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give their relationship a second chance.

31
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This form of theatre is characterized by the “externalization of psychic states… often in nightmarish form”

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Expressionism

32
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Chin assigns Song the task of getting information from Gallimard about…

A

U.S. plans for bombing Vietnam

33
Q

When Wole Soyinka became politically active in 1967…

A

he was imprisoned in solitary confinement for two years

34
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Which of the following was an early work of Wole Soyinka?

A

The Lion and the Jewel

35
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This form of theatre advocated for socialism and featured dream-like imagery

A

Surrealism

36
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What is dominant feature of globalization?

A

interdependent global economies and information and technology networks

37
Q

Elesin dies of…

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strangulation

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