Quiz 4 Flashcards
Auguste Comte
Cours de Philosophie positive
Therese Raquin
A Dramatization by Emile Zola
Andre Antoine opened _______ in 1887
Le Theatre Libre in Paris; lasted until 1894`
Otto Brahm opened
Freie Buhne in Berlin
Emile Zola leading
Proponent of Naturalism
Therese Raquin is play based on
Zola’s own 1867 novel of that title
Emile Zola wrote __________ in 1878
Le Naturalisme au theatre
Theatres Founded in imitation of Antoine’s theatre Libre
1889 Freie Buhne, Berlin
1898 Moscow Art Theatre
Eugene Brieux
Most prolific and socially conscious of the naturalist playwrights
Gerhart Hauptmann’s two plays
The Weavers(Die Weber) The Beaver Coat(Die Biberpelz)
Count Lev Nikolaievich Tolstoy
The power of Darkness
Maxim Gorky
The Lower Depths
August Strindberg’s first play produced but not successful
The Free Thinker
August Strindberg’s two plays
The Father
Miss Julie and “Preface to Miss Julie”
August Strindberg’s late Play in 1902
A Dream Play
August Strindberg’s late Play in 1907
The Ghost Sonata(Spook Sonata)
Emile Zola was a
Social Critic
Andre Antoine’s Le Theatre Libre
New Plays in a form that rebelled against the shallow artifice of boulevard theatre AND encourage artists
Theatre Antoine
Employ Naturalist Techniques
Ran the Theatre for 9 years
Antoine’s Innovations and Contributions 1)
- Subscription Audience
Antoine’s Innovations and Contributions 2)
- Motivated Lighting with obvious source
Antoine’s Innovations and Contributions 3)
- Natural acting and staging
- rejection of effects
- real objects as props
- “the fourth wall “ treated as a missing wall
Antoine’s Innovations and Contributions 4)
- Paris premieres of edgy playwrights
Das Junge Deutschland
- The young Germany movement; 1830s
- Disillusionment with Romantic Idealism
- Opposition to Shallow sentiment in Drama
