Modernism Essay
Department of Drama
DRA1007: Theatrical Interpretations (Practitioners)
Formative Essay, due 5th February, 2015
STUDENT ID (the number on your University Student Card): 620023599
TUTOR: Swati Arora
Essay title: Outline what you consider to be the most significant aspects of the emergence of modernism. Draw evidence for your argument from performances and performance texts. Show your awareness of historical context. Focus your essay on the work of two practitioners discussed in lectures and seminars so far.
WORD LENGTH: 978
Outline what you consider to be the most significant aspects of the emergence of Modernism. Draw evidence for your argument from performances and performance texts. Show your awareness of historical context. Focus your essay on the work of two practitioners discussed in lectures and seminars so far.
In this essay I will be focusing on the work of both practitioners Henrik Ibsen and Constantin Stanislavski and how they were pioneers for modernism within theatre. I will also be explaining how Emile’ Zola first outlined naturalism in his literature which then became a stepping stone for leading practitioners in modernism. On the other hand I will also be touching on the Bauhaus movement and how it was a focal point for modern architecture however, not modernist theatre.
He regarded his novels, some of which he later turned into plays, as clinical laboratories in which he might scientifically explore the consequences upon his characters of their birth and background. Inevitably his creatures appeared to be victims of society, and all his conclusions seemed pessimistic. (J.L.Styan 1981:6). Emile Zola’s Thérèse Raquin is one of his most popular published works. It is a seedy story of how the wealthy and poor mixed over the fascination with dead bodies being on display. I think this portrayal is interesting whereas in plays before this time the middle class and lower class would never mix for any events or enjoyment. Another modernist
DRA1007: Theatrical Interpretations (Practitioners)
Formative Essay, due 5th February, 2015
STUDENT ID (the number on your University Student Card): 620023599
TUTOR: Swati Arora
Essay title: Outline what you consider to be the most significant aspects of the emergence of modernism. Draw evidence for your argument from performances and performance texts. Show your awareness of historical context. Focus your essay on the work of two practitioners discussed in lectures and seminars so far.
WORD LENGTH: 978
Outline what you consider to be the most significant aspects of the emergence of Modernism. Draw evidence for your argument from performances and performance texts. Show your awareness of historical context. Focus your essay on the work of two practitioners discussed in lectures and seminars so far.
In this essay I will be focusing on the work of both practitioners Henrik Ibsen and Constantin Stanislavski and how they were pioneers for modernism within theatre. I will also be explaining how Emile’ Zola first outlined naturalism in his literature which then became a stepping stone for leading practitioners in modernism. On the other hand I will also be touching on the Bauhaus movement and how it was a focal point for modern architecture however, not modernist theatre.
He regarded his novels, some of which he later turned into plays, as clinical laboratories in which he might scientifically explore the consequences upon his characters of their birth and background. Inevitably his creatures appeared to be victims of society, and all his conclusions seemed pessimistic. (J.L.Styan 1981:6). Emile Zola’s Thérèse Raquin is one of his most popular published works. It is a seedy story of how the wealthy and poor mixed over the fascination with dead bodies being on display. I think this portrayal is interesting whereas in plays before this time the middle class and lower class would never mix for any events or enjoyment. Another modernist
Bibliography: Styan, J.L. (1981). Modern drama in theory and practice, Volume 1, Realism and naturalism. Pp. 6-75