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This chapter discusses the principles and qualities of the various “isms” that have arisen in opposition to realism.
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You should know the goals and qualities of the first antirealist movement, symbolism, and appreciate its impact in changing theatrical conceptions in the late 19th century. |
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You need to understand the difference between the period of “isms” and the period of stylization. |
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You need to know the general aims and qualities of stylized theatre as well as the more specific qualities of French avant-garde theatre, intellectual comedy, expressionism, theatricalism, theatre of cruelty, and philosophical melodrama. |
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You should understand the ideas underpinning the theatre of the absurd, its dramatic qualities and those of the plays of one of its leading practitioners, Samuel Beckett. |
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You need to know the theatre of alienation’s motives, assumptions, and theatrical devices as articulated by its leading practitioner, Bertolt Brecht. |