Intro to Theatre Ch. 7/8 + Notes

Modernism can be referred to as ______ and _____

• historical

• artistic

• political

• inventive

Answer explanation

Historical because it can refer to a specific time period and artistic because it refers more generally to the attitude taken to the creation of new works across different media

When do scholars agree that the modernist era started?

• after the nuclear weapons invention

• the Renaissance

• after the Romantics

• none of these

Answer explanation

They argue about it. It could be after the nuclear weapons or during the Renaissance. They don't know

_______ modern drama got its roots from revolutions

• Global

• Western

_____ modern drama began because different cultures reckoned with their colonial pasts and presents

• Western

• Global

Who are some people who revolutionized modernism as an art?

• Charles Darwin

• Karl Marx

• Sigmund Freud

• Theodore Roosevelt

Answer explanation

They all had political, social, economic, scientific impacts on modernism

Global modernism

• combined Western modernism with their traditional types of theatre

• was an innovation of Asian and African dance theatre

• had no influence from Western modernism, and sought to replace it

• replaced Western modernism with more culturally appreciative styles

What is the most pervasive, long-lasting style on Western theatre?

• modernism

• realism

• naturalism

• symbolism

Realism has it's limits: must inevitably involve a certain _______

• stylization

• suspension of disbelief

• reflection of human bias

• invocation

Answer explanation

realism in itself is a style

The nature of relationships in realism is to have

• the audience make their own conclusions

• a stylized version of relationships to reflect emotions in real people

• no dramatic conventions

Realism has its roots in three plays by Isben

• A Doll's House

• Ghosts

• An Enemy of the People

• Three Sisters