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Yale School of Paul Walsh Spring 2015

Study Guide for Drama 6b Exemption Examination

Names, Terms, Types and Concepts

The following is meant to help guide your study, not to provide a comprehensive list of names, terms, or types. Don’t be misled by the nature of this study guide. While students taking the exemption exam may be asked to identify and discuss key individuals, concepts, and terms, the exam itself will require more than simple memorization and identification. Students will be expected to demonstrate their ability to think critically, comparatively, analytically, and historically about aspects of the history of theater and drama.

Movements

Students should be prepared to identify the Black Arts Movement salient features of major theatrical “Angry Young Men” movements, naming at least 2 pertinent Theater of the Oppressed plays and 2 important personalities Postmodern/Postdramatic associated with each movement. If a Post-colonial movement crosses over into the visual arts and/or literature, students should focus on Terms and Concepts the theatrical movement. Students may be asked to identify the country, period (general time period, for example “early 20th-century” or 1930s-40s), and importance to the history of theater and Realism drama of key terms and/or concepts. Naturalism Students should also be able to identify key Symbolism individuals and plays associated with the Soviet term or concept being discussed. Constructivism Futurism Sentimental Comedy Dada Pathetic Surrealism Laughing Comedy Ballad Opera Epic Theater Haupt- und Staatsaktion Theater of Cruelty Licensing Act of 1737 Socialist Realism Comédie Italienne Poetic Realism Shingeki (new theater) Hernani Riot (1830) Independent Theater Movement Mise-en-scène Little Theater Movement Drame Theater of the Absurd Melodrama American Regional Theater Movement Tableau Drama 6B Exemption Exam (2015) — 2

Minstrelsy Little Jingju ( Opera) Yiddish Art Theatre Napoleonic Monopoly Jiyu Giekijo (Free Theater) -Manager Grand-Guignol (1849) Cabaret Voltaire “Stock-and-star” System Théâtre du Vieux Colombier “Combination Company” Volksbühne (Berlin) The Syndicate Berliner Ensemble Box Set Provincetown Players Pièce bien faite (Well-Made Play) Federal Theatre Project Pièce à these (Thesis Play) The Group Theater Problem Play Theatre ‘47 “New Stagecraft” Royal Court Theatre Gesamtkunstwerk Yoruba Travelling Theatre Biomechanics Black Arts Repertory Theater / School Agit-Prop Open Theatre Living Newspaper The Living Theatre Verfremdungseffekt (“A-Effect”) Bread and Puppet Theater Lehrstücke Wooster Group Die Neue Sachlichkeit Mabou Mines Integrated Book Musical El Teatro Campesino Concept Musical Method Key Names “Theater-in-the-Round” Students may be asked to identify key Key Theaters and Companies individuals (including , directors, managers, playwrights, and theorists) in the Students may be asked to identify significant history of theater and drama since 1700, theaters and companies in the history of including the country and period (general theater and drama, identifying when and time period, for example “early 20th- where the theater was active, naming key century” or “1930s-40s”) in which they were individuals (e.g., founders, actors, directors, (are) active, and their importance to the playwrights, etc.), and identifying trends and history of theater and drama. innovations associated with it. 18th century Théâtre de l’Ambigu-Comique *Susanna Centlivre Hamburg National Theater *Catherine Trotter Hallam/American Company *John Gay Chestnut Street Theater *Henry Fielding African Grove Theater Company *Colley Cibber Meiningen Company *George Lillo Bayreuth Festspielhaus *Richard Steele Moscow Art Theatre *Nicholas Rowe Théâtre Libre David Garrick Freie Bühne The Galli-Bibiena Family Intiman (Intimate Theater) Philippe DeLoutherbourg Abbey Theatre * Théâtre l’Œuvre *Richard Sheridan Independent Theatre Society *Marivaux Drama 6B Exemption Exam (2015) — 3

Luigi Riccoboni *Emile Zola *Denis Diderot André Antoine *Beaumarchais Otto Brahm *Carlo Goldoni *Carlo Gozzi *Edward Bulwer-Lytton Hanswurst *T. W. Robertson Johann Christoph Gottsched * Caroline Neuber *August Strindberg *G.E. Lessing *Gerhardt Hauptmann *Friedrich Maxmillian Klinger * Friedrich Schlegel Aurélien Lugné-Pöe *Johann Wolfgang Goethe * * *

19th century 20th century * Konstantin Stanislavsky *August von Kotzebue V. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko Jean-Baptiste Nicolet * *Guilbert de Pixérécourt *Maxim Gorky François Joseph Talma Ludwig Devrient *Vladimir Mayakovsky *Victor Hugo David Belasco *Alexander Dumas pere Avrom Goldfaden *Alfred de Musset *W. B. Yeats * * Augusta Lady Gregory *Georg Büchner *John Millington Synge *Sean O’Casey Charles Kean Adolphe Appia Eleonora Duse William Macready Maurice Schwartz Jacob Adler William Hallam Jacob Gordin Royal Tyler Boris Thomashefsky William Dunlap Boris Aronson James Hewlett * *William Wells Brown * Sholem Aleichem William Alexander Brown *Alfred Jarry Ira Aldridge F. T. Marinetti * Hugo Ball *Alexandr Ostrovsky Tristan Tzara Madame (Lucia Elizabeth) Vestris André Breton Richard Wagner *Eugène Scribe *Frank Wedekind Gustav Freytag (“Freytag’s Pyramid”) Oscar Kokoschka *Alexander Dumas fils George Pierce Baker *Émile Augier * J. T. Grein *Eugene O’Neill George II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen *Zora Neale Hurston Drama 6B Exemption Exam (2015) — 4

Robert Edmond Jones Paul Robeson Sanford Meisner Charles Gilpin Margo Jones Ethel Waters Nina Vance *Elmer Rice Zelda Fichandler *Sophie Treadwell *Clifford Odets Joe Cino Elia Kazan *Adrienne Kennedy Hallie Flanagan *John Osborne Harold Clurman * Cheryl Crawford Maurice Brown *Girish Karnad George M. Cohan Kavalam Panikkar Chang Chenggeng *Aimé Césaire Kaoru Osanai *Femi Osofisan Mei Lanfang *Ngugi wa Thiong’o *Georg Kaiser * * * Max Reinhardt *Ed Bullins Erwin Piscator *Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) * * Kurt Weill *August Wilson * *Luis Valdez Louis Jouvet Joseph Papp Jacques Copeau Ellen Stewart * Josef Svoboda * Stein Giorgio Strehler *Ramón del Valle-Iclán *Federico García Lorca Peter Schumann *Jean-Paul Sartre Tadashi Suzuki *Yukio Mishima *Witold Gombrowicz Peter Brook *Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz * Xingjian *Heiner Müller *Sławomir Mrożek Augusto Boal * Elizabeth LeCompte *Jean Genet Lee Breuer *Eugene Ionesco *Richard Foreman *Oscar Hammerstein II *Richard Rodgers * Students may be asked to identify the *Lorenz Hart genre or type of drama that individual *Stephen Sondheim playwrights are most famous for and to * name at least one play they wrote. Often * playwrights have additional significance as *Thornton Wilder theorists, directors, founders of theaters or *Lorraine Hansberry movements, or advocates for theater. José Quintero Lee Strasberg Stella Adler