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... From Chekhov to Pirandello? First challenge. To Beckett -- second. "After Beckett" -- third. ... Williams -- lesson 3 and O'Neill? or Miller? -- and then to playwrighting? anatoly.vtheatre.net/playwright ... last unit.
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* The End of Modernism: Term referring to art, literature, and music of the late 19th and the 20th century; a form of protest against the industrialized, militaristic, business-oriented, mechanical, bureaucratic, and technological nature of the modern world; literary modernism focuses on breaking away from rules and conventions, searching for new perspectives and points of view, experimenting in form and style, the avant-garde; some modernists placed emphasis on art for its own sake; language and writing as an experience in themselves, without external referents; interest in subjectivity, the internal, psychic life of characters and the construction of reality from those inner perspectives; movements associated with modernism include Surrealism, Existentialism, Formalism, Symbolism, Dadaism, Expressionism, Impressionism, and others.
The End of Realism: A style in art and literature emphasizing the faithful representation of human life and social reality; realist artists often focused on the plight of the poor and the working classes and called for social reforms and the end of exploitation and injustice; preferred subjects include the normal, the everyday, the humble, the common, the practical; realism encourages an objective perspective and somewhat detached position on the part of the artist or author.
DRAMA IN THE EARLY AND MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY The Heritage of Realism Realism and Myth Myth and Culture Poetic Realism [Williams?] Social Realism [Socialist] Realism and Expressionism Antirealism Epic Theater Absurdist Drama Early and Mid-Twentieth Century Drama Timeline Susan Glaspell, Trifles Trifles in Performance COMMENTARY ON GLASPELL Christine Dymkowski, On the Edge: The Plays of Susan Glaspell ** Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author: A Comedy in the Making (translated by Edward Storer) Six Characters in Search of an Author in Performance COMMENTARY ON PIRANDELLO John Corbin, Review of Six Characters in Search of an Author Eugene O'Neill, Desire under the Elms Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage and Her Children: A Chronicle of the Thirty Years' War (translated by John Willett) Mother Courage in Performance COMMENTARIES ON BRECHT Bertolt Brecht, The Alienation Effect Bertolt Brecht, Notes for Mother Courage, Scene 12 ** Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie The Glass Menagerie in Performance COMMENTARIES ON THE GLASS MENAGERIE Lewis Nichols, Review of The Glass Menagerie Donald Spoto, Laurette Taylor in The Glass Menagerie Benjamin Nelson, Problems in The Glass Menagerie ** Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman Death of a Salesman in Performance COMMENTARIES ON MILLER Arthur Miller, In Memoriam Arthur Miller, Tragedy and the Common Man Michiko Kakutani, A Salesman Who Transcends Time *Samuel Beckett, Happy Days Happy Days in Performance COMMENTARIES ON BECKETT *Deirdre Bair, The French Production of Happy Days *Sidney Holman, Happy Days: Creation in Spite of Habit *Eugene Webb, On Happy Days Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun A Raisin in the Sun in Performanceand Stoppard?!