Ch 8 SmartBook
What are signature aesthetic qualities of realist plays?
-Costumes that real people would wear -Scenery from the real environment of the setting
Which of the following are true of the term "camp" with reference to the theatre of the ridiculous?
-It resists categorization and revels in instability and thumbing its nose at authority. -It revels in the unintentionally trashy, the retro, the self-serious, the melodramatic.
In the context of the complicated relationship between Western culture and Global modern drama, which of the following theatrical developments are examples of global modernism?
-Shakespearean performance in India that combines Renaissance language with Indian traditions of dance-drama -the merging of Chinese operatic styles with some of the West's more straightforwardly realistic approaches
Which of the following were important intellectual influences on the modern theatre?
-Sigmund Freud -Karl Marx -Charles Darwin
Which of the following are true of symbolists?
-They aimed for purity of vision rather than accuracy of observation. -They demanded abstraction.
Which of the following are true of the plays that constitute the theatre of the absurd?
-They have characters who are helplessly trapped without any clear awareness. -They are obsessed with the futility of all action and the pointlessness of all direction.
Which of the following are true of naturalist plays?
-They offered a slice of life. -They sought to eliminate every trace of dramatic convention.
Identify the characteristics of antirealist stylization in theatre.
-a struggle with legacies -exaggerated humor -fragmented selves and altered dramatic structures
Which of the following characterize realist plays?
-endings that are unfair or without closure -the use of settings that resemble the world outside the theatre
The movement that has had the most pervasive and long-lived effect on the modern Western theatre is ______.
realism
Which of the following is not a movement associated with the early twentieth century?
romanticism
The spectrum of modern, antirealist theatre can best be characterized as ______.
stylized theatre
The earliest form of theatrical antirealism was ______.
symbolism
Absurdist playwrights are most likely to be interested in representing which of the following?
the futility of human endeavor
While the theatre of the absurd focuses on ______, the theatre of alienation works to ______.
the futility of human life; humanity's potential for growth
In his own time, Ibsen's plays were controversial because of ______.
the issues that they tackled including divorce and sexually transmitted disease
While non-Western modern theatres are all different, what is one thing they all have to grapple with?
the legacy of the West
Global modernism is defined by ______.
the merging of Western and non-Western theatrical traditions
Which of the following best characterizes the goals of Brecht's theatre of alienation?
to prompt audiences to reflect critically and dispassionately on social conditions
The "father of dramatic realism" is ______.
Henrik Ibsen
What does it mean to say that the modern theatre of the early twentieth century was a theatre of "isms"?
It underwent a proliferation of theatrical styles---many of whose names ended in "ism."
What is the goal of theatrical realism?
Likeness to life
_____ represents an extreme attempt to dramatize human reality without any appearance of dramatic form.
Naturalism
Impressionist painters were employed by which theatre maker?
Paul Fort
Who founded the first symbolist theatre?
Paul Fort
Characters in symbolist drama were supposed to represent which of the following?
Philosophical ideas
The "box set," which resembles an ordinary room with one wall removed, is characteristic of which theatrical style?
Realism
Which important movement in modern theatre wanted theatre to resemble everyday life as much as possible?
Realism
What prompted the creation of antirealist theatre?
a reaction against realist theatre
Symbolist playwrights would be most likely to be concerned with which of the following?
aesthetic values and innovations
Chekhov's plays are most famous for ______.
ambiguous dialogue that never reveals the true feelings or intentions of the characters
Which of the following terms encompasses the theatrical movements of Symbolism, Expressionism, and Surrealism?
antirealism
Which of the following best describes the unique style of the theatre of the ridiculous?
camp sensibility
In the theatre of alienation, actors are encouraged to ______.
discover their characters' social functions and political commitment
The modern theatre is best characterized as a theatre of ______.
experimentation
Machinal by Sophie Treadwell is associated with which theatrical movement?
expressionism
______, by Chen Yun, is known in China as a "red classic" (hongse jingdian): a play that epitomizes the ideals of the Communist Revolution.
The Young Generation
The great Russian master of realist playwriting was ______.
Anton Chekhov
Which of the following is an example of the theatre of the absurd?
Beckett's Waiting for Godot
The foremost theorist and playwright of the theatre of alienation is ______.
Bertolt Brecht
Which play is an excellent example of the theatre of alienation?
Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Szechuan
An example of expressionist drama is ______.
Elmer Rice's Subway
______, a style much in vogue in early twentieth-century Germany, externalizes and exaggerates ideas and internal states through distorted behaviors and physical forms.
Expressionism
Which of the following is true of postmodernism?
It abandons any attempt to ask the profound questions that characterized movements such as symbolism.
_____ _____ is a realistic style that advances the aims of a socialist political party by glorifying its beliefs.
Socialist realism
Which playwright uses expressionism to call attention to the oppression of women in Machinal?
Sophie Treadwell
Samuel Beckett is a major part of which theatrical movement?
Theatre of the absurd
Which of the following is one of the primary goals of the theatre of alienation?
To get the audience to concentrate on the larger social and political issues the plays generated and reflected
Rather then having a single vision, postmodernism as a style encourages ______.
a combination of various styles without any attempt to connect them
The theatre form "shin-kabuki" combined traditional Japanese drama with what Western theatrical innovation?
a focus on psychological realism
A realist play would most likely situate its audience as which of the following?
a laboratory scientist observing experimental subjects
The aesthetics of Realism emphasized ______.
being true to real life
