Monday, October 26, 2009

Terms to be posted

I am going to post some more terms soon so that people can study for the praxis. Here are the terms from the theatre history II class:

CHAPTER 9
TERMS FIGURES PLAYS/WORKS

breeches roles Thomas Betterton
Heroic tragedy William Wycherley Country Wife
benefits female wits
contract system Oliver Cromwell
proscenium stage Anne Bracegirdle
Comedy of Manners Davenant and Killigrew
Drolls George Farquhar The Beaux’ Stratagem
Aphra Behn
William Congreve The Way of the World
Nell Gwynn
Susanna Centlivre The Busy Body


CHAPTER 10
TERMS FIGURES PLAYS/WORKS

Drame Denis Diderot
ballad opera Richard Brinsley Sheridan School For Scandal
Sentimental comedy Charles Macklin
Box Set Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquerbourgeois tragedy Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais The Marriage of Figaro
Romanticism Carlo Goldoni Servant of Two Masters
boulevard theaters Carlo Gozzi King Stag
groove system Dumesnil & Clairon
Covent Garden Christopher Rich
Storm and stress John Gay The Beggars Opera
Spoken décor David Garrick
laughing comedy The Hallams
Bibiena
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Goetz von Berlichingen
John Rich
Friedrich Schiller The Robbers









CHAPTER 11
TERMS FIGURES PLAYS/WORKS
minstrel show Charles Darwin
Romanticism Victor Hugo Hernani,
Gesamptkunstwerke Sarah Siddons
Well-Made Play Anna Cora Mowatt
Melodrama Charles Kean
combination company Edwin Forrest
actor-manager Richard Wagner
moving panorama George Fredricke Cooke
Festpielhaus Edwin Booth
Laura Keene
Georg II, duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Ira Aldridge
John Philip Kemble
Madame Vestris
Harriet Beecher Stowe
William Charles Macready
Karl Marx The Communist Manifesto
Bill Cody’s Wild West Show

CHAPTER 12
TERMS FIGURES PLAYS/WORKS
Realism Anton Chekhov The Cherry Orchard
Naturalists George Bernard Shaw Major Barbara
Theatrical Syndicate Henrik Ibsen A Doll’s House
Théâtre Libre Andre Antoine
Eclectics Edward Gordon Craig
Naturalism Konstantin Stanislavski
symbolism August Strindberg The Father
Lafayette Players Adolphe Appia
biomechanics Vsevelod Emilievich Myerhold
Motivated lighting Benjamin Franklin Wedekind Spring’s Awakening
Theatricalists Maurice Maeterlinck The Bluebird
psychological gesture Rabindranath Tagore
Irish Renaissance John Millington Singe Riders to the Sea

Kathakali

Bunraku

Noh Theatre

Kabuki