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Pierre Cornielle
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France neoclassical playwright
Wrote The Cid which was accused of not going with the 3 unities |
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Moliere
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French neoclassical playwright
Wrote Tartuffe which was banned and he had to rewrite the play |
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Aphra Behn
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The Rover
During the English restoration One of the 1st times a women is called a powerful writer |
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The Contrast
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Enlightenment play by Royal Tyler
One of the 1st well known American playwrights Contrast British identity vs American identity |
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Victor Hugo
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romanticism play
Wrote Hernani He was French Hernani- woman having an affair with the king Caused a riot between classes |
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August Von Krotzebue
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German melodramatic writer
Wrote over 200 plays Same story, different locations |
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The Blue Bird
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Symbolist play by Maurice Maeterlinck
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Antonin Artaud
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Wrote the Surrealist Jet of Blood
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Sammuel Beckett
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Wrote absurd play Waiting for Godot
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George M. Cohan
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Early musical theatre artist
Had idea of not just a ballad, but a complete plot Kind of the father of musical theatre Many songs and musicals were patriotic Yankee Doodle Dandy, Give My Regards to Broadway |
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Show Boat
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Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein II
First musical with a cast with mixed ethnicity on Broadway. |
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Federal Theatre Project
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Sponsored the musical The Cradle will Rock by Marc Blitzein
Play about labor unions Shut down by government officials before it opened, so they acted it out at a piano bar across the street |
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Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein II
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Early musical theatre artists
Take on serious social issues Oklahoma!, The King and I, The Sound of Music |
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Oklahoma!
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Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein II
First musical to integrate music, story, and dance |
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Andrew Llyod Weber
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Contemporary musical theatre artist
Wrote Cats and The Phantom of the Opera |
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Stephen Sondheim
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Contemporary musical theatre artist
Wrote Into the Woods and West Side Story |
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A Raisin in the Sun
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Lorraine Hansberry
First play by an African American on Broadway Father of black family in Chicago dies and gets $ from life insurance |
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David Henry Hwang
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2nd generation Chinese- American playwright
Wrote M. Butterfly and Aida |
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Los Moros y Los Cristianos
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First play staged in what is now the USA (in Spanish)
Means the mores and the Christians Performed in Spanish in 1598 |
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Spiderwoman Theatre
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Founded by 3 Native American sisters
First all-female Native American group in the USA Story-telling theatre |
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Wendy Wasserstein
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Wrote The Heidi Chronicles
Theatre by and for women |
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The Boys in the Band
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By Mart Crowley
First play with gay characters on Broadway |
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Tony Kushner
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Wrote Angels in America
Gay and lesbian theatre |
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Zeami
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Noh theatre playwright
Wrote 100 of the 250 plays |
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Wole Soyinka
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Wrote The Strong Breed
African Theatre From Nigeria 1st African to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature |
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Julie Taymor
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Director of the postmodern Lion King
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Robert Wilson
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Directed the musical Einstein on the Beach
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A Dolls House
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Henrik Ibsen
Realism 1879 Denmark |
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Tennessee Williams
Tragedy? 1955 Mississippi |
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Becky's New Car
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Steven Dietz
Post-modernism (comedy) 2008 City like Seattle |
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The Importance of Being Earnest
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Oscar Wilde
Comedy 1895 England |
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
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August Wilson
1984 Chicago |
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Gotthold Ephcraim Lessing
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German playwright and critic
In house critic for Hamburg National Theatre |
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Baz Luhrman
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Directed the postmodern Romeo and Juliet
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Aeschylus
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Greek Tragedy- City Dionysia
Oldest, 2 Actor rule Concerned with relationship between humans and Gods |
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Sophocles
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Greek Tragedy- City Dionysia
Most Famous 3 actor rule Oedipus Trilogoy, Electra |
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Euripides
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Greek Tragedy- City Dionysia
Youngest/ rebel Brought in characters of lower classes, anti-war |
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Aristophanes
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Greek Old Comedy
Lysistrata, The Frogs |
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Menander
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Greek New comedy
Dyksolos (The Grouch) |
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Plautus
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Roman Comedy
The Maneachmi |
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Terence
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Roman Comedy
The Brothers (Twins) Think he was the first black playwright |
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Seneca
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Roman Tragedy
Medea, Phaedra |
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Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare
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Elizabethan times
Wrote for public playhouses |
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Ben Johnson, Inigo Jones
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Wrote Court Masques
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