Quiz 1

Question 1

August Strindberg’s 4 Plays

Answer 1

The father(1887), Miss Julie(1888), A Dream Play(1902), The Ghost Sonata(A.K.A Spook Sonata)(1907)

Question 2

August Strindberg married to

Answer 2

Harriet Bosse(Norwegian actress): 1 child

Question 3

August Strindberg’s The Ghost Sonata is

Answer 3

symbolism/expressionism

Question 4

August Strindberg’s triology

Answer 4

To Damascus I, II and III

Question 5

Henrik Ibsen is

Answer 5

neo classicism, Romanticism, Realism, and Symbolism

Question 6

August Strindberg is

Answer 6

naturalism, historical drama, symbolism, and pre-expressionism

Question 7

Modernism(approximately 1870s-1930)

Answer 7

• embraces many European trends in the search for new forms
• disengagement from bourgeois values
• influences include symbolism, decadence, Ibsen, Strindberg

Question 8

Important Naturalist plays

Answer 8

The Weavers, The Beaver coat, The Lower Depths and The Father

Question 9

Adolphe Appia

Answer 9

“Rhythmic Space”

Question 10

Adolphe Appia’s play

Answer 10

L’Oeuvre de L’art Vivant

Question 11

Synthesis of the Arts

Answer 11

Max Reinhardt and Leopold Jessner

Question 12

Decadence Playwrights

Answer 12

Arthur Schnitzler and Frank Wedekind

Question 13

Modernism is

Answer 13

An umbrell term compassing artistic tendencies of Rebellion against traditional form and content

Question 14

Modernism began in

Answer 14

1870s with impressionist painters symbolist poets, naturalist novelists and playwrights

Question 15

Heritage of 19C 1)

Answer 15

Character psychology explored by Buchner, Ibsen, Strindberg

Question 16

Heritage of 19C 2)

Answer 16

Rebellion against traditional form in Jarry’s Ubu Roi(1896) + by Anton Chekhov

Question 17

Heritage of 19C 3)

Answer 17

Aesthetic Movements like naturalism and symbolism

Question 18

Characteristics of Naturalism 1)

Answer 18

Realism pushed to the extreme

Question 19

Characteristics of Naturalism 2)

Answer 19

examine the human organism scientifically w/o reference to the spiritual

Question 20

Characteristics of Naturalism 3)

Answer 20

attempt to bypass artistic selection arrangement, simply conveying the chaos of existence

Question 21

Characteristics of Naturalism 4)

Answer 21

case studies work best with few variables. a reason to focus on the lowest level of life

Question 22

Characteristics of Naturalism 5)

Answer 22

Reacting against the cold, clinical naturalist drama, symbolists brought a return to subjectivity and the ineffable.

Question 23

Characteristics of Naturalism 6)

Answer 23

Naturalism + symbolism coexisted in 1890s

Question 24

five characteristics of Symbolism

Answer 24

• emphasis on poetry + Lyricism
• suggestion
• Evocation of soul states
• simplification of effects
• Atmosphere, mystery

Question 25

Synthesis of the Arts ex)

Answer 25

The world of art

Question 26

Decadence is

Answer 26

Leading playwrights with decadent tendencies include Oscar Wilde, Frank Wedekind, Hugo Von Hof

Question 27

Modernism

Answer 27

Shakes up Comfortable beliefs

Question 28

August Strindberg is

Answer 28

Prolific

Question 29

The Ghost Sonata(1907)

Answer 29

Exposition - Development - Recapitulation

Question 30

August Strindberg is (4)

Answer 30

Journalist, Critic, Painter, Librarian

Question 31

August Strindberg wrote

Answer 31

70 plays 117 paintings