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| Extravagant, twisted columns, S-curve supports, encrusted ornamentation |
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| Bibiena Family Innovations |
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| Angled perspective, multiple vanishing points, cut out drops, strong use of verticality, use of diagonal scenic units |
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| What lead to more historical accuracy on stage? |
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| Rediscovery of Hurculaneum and Pompeii |
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| Introduced mood to design, enhanced atmospheric values of light and shadow, introduced extreme high contrast, moonlight settings, beams of light |
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| Mistress of the Inn+The Servant of Two masters; abandoned masks, encouraged better stage speech, abolished improv |
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| Carlo Gozzi (don't mix him up with Goldoni!!!) |
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| The Love for Three Oranges, King Stag; plays based on fairy tales |
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| Italy's most famous tragedian, inspired by Racine to write in simplest form; Oreste, Saul, Antigone, Mirra |
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| Oedipe, Zaire, Tancrede, Candide (most famous work, picaresque); Father of the Enlightenment, brought back violence and the supernatural, increased spectacle with historical accuracy, abolished spectators on stage |
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| The Illegitimate Son, The Father of a Family, Edited Encyclopedie; established the acceptance of an enlarged range of dramatic genres |
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| Philosophers-Voltaire, Locke, Diderot |
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| Called for the illusion of reality, subject matter from real life, settings duplicated real rooms and locales, prose dialogue, actor has no cognizance of audience |
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| Drury Lane, Covent Garden, Haymarket |
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| Combination of burlesque and operetta; no more than 3 acts, 5 songs, foundation of musical theatre |
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| Most popular form of drama, no more than 3 acts, musical score, foundation of silent film |
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| PB Shelley, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron |
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| The Cenci, Prometheus Unbound |
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| Sardanapalus Marino Faliero (L-O-rd Byr-O-n, Marin-O Falier-O) |
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| MacReady's directorial standards |
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| Actors not permitted to choose blocking, insisted on acting during rehearsals, demanded total historical accuracy in costumes/scenery |
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| Lucia Elizabetta Bartolozzi |
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| Popularized Shakespearean production in the US, father of John Wilkes Booth |
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| 1st American super star in US and England, introduced American style of acting |
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| Most famous American actress, open lesbian |
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| First African-American actor, only American in the Shakespeare Hall of Fame, totally owned the role of Othello, popular in Europe |
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| Our American Cousin--held Lincoln after he was shot |
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| First used interior gas lighting, first spotlight (limelight) |
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| Queen mother of Barrymore family |
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| Georgiana, Maurice, John, Ethel, Lionel |
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| Longest-running play in US history, melodramatic scenery, horses on stage |
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| First known African American playwright, wrote The Escape based on his own experiences |
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| Father of modern melodrama, father of swashbuckling |
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| Totally owned the role of Hamlet, established the Players' Club and Booth's Theatre in NY |
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| Offstage reflection that allowed projected scenery on stage, used for Hamlet's ghost |
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| Innovations in Booth's Theatre |
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| Level floors with no grooves, hydraulic elevators, huge fly space, lighting and scrim special effects, "free plantation" |
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| Under the Gaslight, Horizon; Early big Broadway producer |
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| Daly's Fifth Avenue Theatre |
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| Realistic special effects, established the director as major force in American theatre |
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| Won At Last, Hazel Kirke, Paul Kauvar |
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| First full hydraulic stage floor, first artistic use of electric stage lighting, folding seats |
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| George II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen |
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| First modern stage director |
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| First company stage manager |
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| First company voice and speech coach |
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| Father of dramatic realism |
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| Naturalism in the theatre, the experimental novel |
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| Three Sisters, Uncle Vanya, The Sea Gull; somehow, these are meant to be comedies |
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| Dramatic tension in absolute quiet |
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| Father of modern acting, introduces the "Stanislavsky system" |
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| Father of modern design (particularly lighting), worked only in graphite pencil, Swiss |
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| Used columns of light, big on puppets, English |
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| Realistic scenery, controls Broadway throughout the 1920s |
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| Father of American drama, raging alcoholic |
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| Great stage director of the 20th century, founded method acting, took part in the Red Scare witch hunt |
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