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?2003 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Longman Publishers. * The Art of Being Human, 7/e Chapter 7 – THE THEATER PowerPoint by Julie Rodakowski CONVENTIONS OF THE THEATER Classical Conventions Elizabethan Conventions Neoclassical Conventions Victorian Conventions Early Modern Conventions Contemporary Conventions TRAGEDY Classical Tragedy Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex, Euripidess Medea Shakespearean Tragedy Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear Neoclassical Tragedy Racine’s Phaedra Modern Tragedy Miller’s Death of a Salesman, A View from the Bridge Melodrama and Tragedy: a contrast COMEDY Farce (commedia dell’arte) Moliere’s The Would-Be Gentleman, Weycherley’s The Country Wife Satire Aristophanes’s Lysistrata, Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest The Comedy of Character Shakespeare’s character of Falstaff NATURALISM A reflection of life the way it really was, without the artificiality of the stage dialogue of the past or well-constructed, tight plots. Chekhov’s Three Sisters Williams’s The Glass Menagerie O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night THEATER OF IDEAS Plays that focus on ideas rather than characters, challenging notions of marriage, business, government, the clergy, education, and so on. Ibsen’s A Doll’s House Shaw’s Pygmalion Shaw’s Major Barbara A THEATRICAL CENTURY OF DYNAMIC CHANGE THEATER OF ALIENATION Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle THEATER OF CRUELTY Weiss’s Marat / Sade Fo’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest * * *