... jump to Chekhov from Shakespeare? Ms. Julie, Doll's House, The Importance of Being Earnest Aristotle & "Realism" (High Modernity) : aesthetics.vtheatre.net/drama files ... "I was a man who stood in symbolic relations to the art and culture of my age... The gods had given me almost everything. I had genius, a distinguished name, high social position, brilliancy, intellectual daring; I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men and the colour of things: there was nothing I said or did that did not make people wonder... I treated Art as the supreme reality, and life as a mere mode of fiction: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram." Wilde ...

High Modernity and "Realism"

from the textbook:

NINETEENTH-CENTURY DRAMA THROUGH THE TURN OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
    Technical Innovations 
    Romantic Drama 
    Melodrama 
    The Well-Made Play 
    The Rise of Realism 
    Nineteenth-Century Drama Timeline 
    Henrik Ibsen, A Doll House (translated by Rolf Fjelde)
       A Doll House in Performance 
       COMMENTARIES ON A DOLL HOUSE
       Henrik Ibsen, Notes for the Modern Tragedy 
       Bernard Shaw, A Doll's House 
       Muriel C. Bradbrook, A Doll's House: Ibsen the Moralist 
    August Strindberg, Miss Julie (translated by Harry G. Carlson)
       Miss Julie in Performance 
       COMMENTARY ON Strindberg
       August Strindberg, From the Preface to Miss Julie 
    Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest: 
A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
       The Importance of Being Earnest in Performance 
       COMMENTARIES ON WILDE
       Peter Raby, 
An Unpublished Letter from Oscar Wilde on The Importance of Being Earnest 
       Peter Raby, The Origins of The Importance of Being Earnest

Chekhov, Method Acting and Cinema = Film Acting: Eisenstein vs. Pudovkin (two original concepts) *

NEW DRAMA -- what does it mean?