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From the start American theatre has been unique and diverse, reflecting society as America chased after its National identity. [106] The very first play performed, in 1752 in Williamsburg Virginia, was Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice." [107] Due to a temporary Puritan society, theatre was banned from 1774 until 1789. [108]
Richard Wagner's Bayreuth Festival Theatre.. A wide range of movements existed in the theatrical culture of Europe and the United States in the 19th century. In the West, they include Romanticism, melodrama, the well-made plays of Scribe and Sardou, the farces of Feydeau, the problem plays of Naturalism and Realism, Wagner's operatic Gesamtkunstwerk, Gilbert and Sullivan's plays and operas ...
American Feminist Playwrights (1996) online; Fisher, James. ed. Historical Dictionary of Contemporary American Theater: 1930-2010 (2 vol. 2011) Krasner, David. American Drama 1945 – 2000: An Introduction (2006) Krasner, David. A beautiful pageant : African American theatre, drama, and performance in the Harlem Renaissance, 1910-1927 (2002) online
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television. [1] Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's Poetics (c. 335 BC)—the earliest work of dramatic theory.
Although the American theatrical tradition can be traced back to the arrival of Lewis Hallam's troupe in the mid-18th century and was very active in the 19th century, as seen by the popularity of minstrel shows and of adaptations of Uncle Tom's Cabin, American drama attained international status only in the 1920s and 1930s, with the works of ...
A William Hogarth painting based on The Beggar's Opera (c. 1728), a key antecedent of musical theatre. Development of musical theatre refers to the historical development of theatrical performance combined with music that culminated in the integrated form of modern musical theatre that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.
Realism was a general movement that began in 19th-century theatre, around the 1870s, and remained present through much of the 20th century. 19th-century realism is closely connected to the development of modern drama, which "is usually said to have begun in the early 1870s" with the "middle-period" work of the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen ...
Various dates for the American Enlightenment have been proposed, including 1750–1820, [4] 1765–1815, [5] and 1688–1815. [6] One more precise start date proposed is 1714, [7] when a collection of Enlightenment books by Jeremiah Dummer were donated to the library of the college of Yale University in Connecticut.