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1 day ago · Poetry’s Fourth Wall & How to Break Through. “The Fourth Wall” is a term I lovingly borrow from the theatre world and apply to poetry. If you are “a stage poet,” maybe you are already familiar with the idea, and if you are “a page poet,” maybe you are a little suspicious. Let me set the scene: if you are watching a play, the ...
2 days ago · This can be seen in new directions within theater making, scenography, and playwriting with the advent of American Experimental Drama (Beard 2008), new American Stagecraft (Doona 2012), and “Plastic theatre,” Williams’s version of poetic realism (Williams 2016, 5).
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3 days ago · This transformation in theater was a major departure from its earlier, more ritualistic forms. It laid the groundwork for Western drama as we know it today, emphasizing the importance of storytelling in both reflecting and shaping societal values and beliefs. In essence, the Greek Theater Revolution was about more than just entertainment.
4 days ago · Romanticism is the attitude that characterized works of literature, painting, music, architecture, criticism, and historiography in the West from the late 18th to the mid-19th century. It emphasized the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, the personal, the emotional, and the visionary.
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2 days ago · William Shakespeare (baptized April 26, 1564, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England—died April 23, 1616, Stratford-upon-Avon) was a poet, dramatist, and actor often called the English national poet. He is considered by many to be the greatest dramatist of all time. Shakespeare occupies a position unique in world literature.
4 days ago · The history of African-American theatre has a dual origin. The first is rooted in local theatre where African Americans performed in cabins and parks. Their performances (folk tales, songs, music, and dance) were rooted in the African culture before being influenced by the American environment.
4 days ago · Expressionism, artistic style in which the artist seeks to depict not objective reality but rather the subjective emotions and responses. In a broader sense Expressionism is one of the main currents of art, literature, music, theater, and film in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
