Quiz 1 Flashcards
August Strindberg’s 4 Plays
The father(1887), Miss Julie(1888), A Dream Play(1902), The Ghost Sonata(A.K.A Spook Sonata)(1907)
August Strindberg married to
Harriet Bosse(Norwegian actress): 1 child
August Strindberg’s The Ghost Sonata is
symbolism/expressionism
August Strindberg’s triology
To Damascus I, II and III
Henrik Ibsen is
neo classicism, Romanticism, Realism, and Symbolism
August Strindberg is
naturalism, historical drama, symbolism, and pre-expressionism
Modernism(approximately 1870s-1930)
- embraces many European trends in the search for new forms
- disengagement from bourgeois values
- influences include symbolism, decadence, Ibsen, Strindberg
Important Naturalist plays
The Weavers, The Beaver coat, The Lower Depths and The Father
Adolphe Appia
“Rhythmic Space”
Adolphe Appia’s play
L’Oeuvre de L’art Vivant
Synthesis of the Arts
Max Reinhardt and Leopold Jessner
Decadence Playwrights
Arthur Schnitzler and Frank Wedekind
Modernism is
An umbrell term compassing artistic tendencies of Rebellion against traditional form and content
Modernism began in
1870s with impressionist painters symbolist poets, naturalist novelists and playwrights
Heritage of 19C 1)
Character psychology explored by Buchner, Ibsen, Strindberg
Heritage of 19C 2)
Rebellion against traditional form in Jarry’s Ubu Roi(1896) + by Anton Chekhov
Heritage of 19C 3)
Aesthetic Movements like naturalism and symbolism
Characteristics of Naturalism 1)
Realism pushed to the extreme
Characteristics of Naturalism 2)
examine the human organism scientifically w/o reference to the spiritual
Characteristics of Naturalism 3)
attempt to bypass artistic selection arrangement, simply conveying the chaos of existence
Characteristics of Naturalism 4)
case studies work best with few variables. a reason to focus on the lowest level of life
Characteristics of Naturalism 5)
Reacting against the cold, clinical naturalist drama, symbolists brought a return to subjectivity and the ineffable.
Characteristics of Naturalism 6)
Naturalism + symbolism coexisted in 1890s
five characteristics of Symbolism
- emphasis on poetry + Lyricism
- suggestion
- Evocation of soul states
- simplification of effects
- Atmosphere, mystery
